Episode 19 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 how are we today?

-Getting up to speed.

-Getting up to speed, yeah.

Well, we'll find out about your recent record in a second.

BARRY CHUCKLES Hoping to beat the might of the Eggheads today are...

Now, this team are all members

of a female singing group and captain, Andrew,

is their musical director.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Andrew and I'm a director of music.

Hello, I'm Jackie and I'm a retired nurse.

Hello, I'm Teresa and I'm a retired primary school teacher.

Hello, I'm Sue and I'm a retired home economist.

Hi, I'm Genevieve, I'm a company secretary.

So, Andrew and team, welcome, great to see you.

Tell us about the choir, Andrew?

Er, yes, we are a ladies' choir, I'm the only man in the choir

and I run it and we meet in seven locations throughout

Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire.

This is a selection of members from those different venues.

We meet just for fun, we don't audition,

and we perform as and when people are required to or if they want to.

But it's very much a choir for the woman of today.

So she comes in and can do as much or as little as she likes,

around her work and home life.

OK, right, so would we like to hear the choir?

Certainly.

Can you do something for us?

I think we could.

ANDREW HUMS

One, two, three, four.

# Going to the chapel and we're

# Going to the chapel and we're

# Going to the chapel and we're

# Gonna get married

# Going to the chapel and we're

# Gonna get married

# Oooooh... #

Beautiful, thank you.

There's got to be an Eggheads version of going to the pub

and we're going to start quizzing, or something. ALL LAUGH

-Going to get quizzed.

-Going to the library.

Going to the library and we're going to get quizzed.

OK, and do any of you quiz, I should ask?

-Occasionally...

-Yes.

-Pub quizzes and suchlike

-but, um...

-But not together.

-Not as a team.

-Never together. All right.

Well, it's great that this is a first and I really wish you all the best here.

Every day, there's £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, A Handful Of Harmonies, the Eggheads,

well, they had a bit of a sticky period but they seemed to

have stabilised now. Got through the last game just about and

they've won the last three, so that means there's £4,000 to win today.

Ooh.

All right, shall we go for it?

-Let's go for it.

-Yes.

I'm desperate for Music to come up, but the first head-to-head

-is on the subject of History.

-Oh!

Who's our historian?

-History?

-Not guilty.

-No.

-Jackie?

-Yeah, if you like.

-OK, Jackie.

-Jackie, retired nurse, against which Egghead?

Any one you like.

-I'll say Barry, because I quoted him as my favourite Egghead.

-Oh...

He's a favourite of many of us, actually. Yeah, Barry.

And he's famously been to every answer in the Geography round

and possibly experienced every answer in the History round.

I don't know!

Jackie, from A Handful Of Harmonies versus our own Barry,

know as The Brain.

To ensure there's no conferring, please take your positions in our Question Room.

So, History, Jackie, and would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

And here is your question.

Winston Churchill's mother was born in which country?

I have to say, I've never come across this one before.

I'm inclined...

I'm trying to think what I know about Winston Churchill

and his family.

I'm afraid I'm just going to have a bit of a guess at it

and I'm going to say Japan.

Well, Barry is out go-to person for all things Japan.

Is this a fact, Barry?

It would be a wonderful fact if it was true,

but sadly it was the USA.

The USA is the right answer there, Jackie.

Over to Barry.

Barry, the baby boom generation is the name given to those born

immediately after which conflict?

Well, I am a baby-boomer and I'm proud to be one.

I can state with some degree of certainty

that we were babies born immediately after World War II.

World War II is the right answer, well done.

OK, Jackie, what was the name

of the Greenpeace ship sunk by French agents in Auckland in 1985?

Having been a supporter of Greenpeace since I was a teenager,

I think I'm fairly confident to say it was the Rainbow Warrior.

Rainbow Warrior is right.

Well done. First point to our Challengers. Barry, back to you.

What was the name of the Scottish king who was the father of

Mary Queen Of Scots?

Yes, well it wasn't Robert or Donald.

I'm just trying to recall which of the James' it was.

I believe it was James V, so I'll go for James.

James is quite right and you help me with my history the whole time.

Is she the one who was executed by Elizabeth?

She was, at Fotheringhay Castle.

Because, what, Elizabeth saw her as a rival?

Yes, well, she... Elizabeth didn't really want to execute her

because she thought that would set a bad precedent.

But she got involved in some scandals where she was trying

to get Elizabeth executed and she was found out.

So, unfortunately, she had to go.

OK. Jackie, he's pulled ahead slightly.

You need to get this one right.

Who was assassinated on the 13th July 1793

in the bath by Charlotte Corday?

I have heard of Charlotte Corday and I'm trying to think

of the connection.

I'm inclined to go for Jean-Paul Marat.

Very good, Jean-Paul Marat it is.

-Yeah, well done.

-Well done.

Barry, this for the round.

Indira Gandhi's first term of office as Prime Minister of India

came in which decade?

Indira Gandhi...

That's a good one.

She was assassinated, I believe, in 1984.

And I'm just trying to remember if that was in her first term of

office, or her second term.

I'm struggling a bit with this.

It certainly wasn't the '60s.

I think that might have been her second term of office,

so on that basis, I'm going for the 1970s.

OK, '70s is your answer. Eggheads, do you know?

-'60s. '66, she came to power.

-'66 she came to power, Barry.

-Mm-hm.

-So you're wrong.

-Gosh, as early as that?

-Yeah.

You're properly wrong.

1960s is the answer.

A slight let-off there, Jackie.

-Yes.

-But we'll take whatever comes our way. Eh?

-Yeah, absolutely.

So we're on History, we go to Sudden Death.

It gets a tiny bit harder because I don't give you different options.

The Polaris missile, which first came into service in the 1960s,

was designed to be fired from what vehicle?

Um...

From an aircraft carrier?

-No, submarine.

-A submarine.

Underwater, comes out the sea.

Barry, this for the round on History.

Wladyslaw Anders was a commanding officer of which country's

forces in the Middle East and Italy during World War II?

Wladyslaw Anders.

-I can spell it if you want.

-Yes, please.

W-L-A-D-Y-S-L-A-W and then Anders.

I've not heard of him.

Oh...

I don't know, but Wladyslaw sounds so Polish to me.

I'm going to take a guess at Poland.

Poland is your answer.

Yeah, the first and the last W remind one of Warsaw, I suppose.

Kevin, do you know this?

Yeah, it is. He was the commander of the Polish forces in exile,

the ones who managed to get away when Poland was overrun by

the Germans, and they fought in various theatres throughout

the Second World War, including North Africa and Italy.

Anders was the man who was in charge on the military side.

So it's the ones who got away when Poland fell,

you're absolutely right, Barry.

Poland it is. Sorry, Jackie, beaten on History, but early days.

And plenty of time still for your team.

Come back to us, please, and rejoin your team-mates.

OK, A Handful Of Harmonies have lost a brain from the Final Round,

the Eggheads are all still sitting there, all five of them,

and the next subject is Music.

-How about that? It came up.

-Hurray!

-Is that good?

-It's got to be me, hasn't it?

-OK.

I've got to take it.

The director of music himself, against which Egghead?

Anyone but Barry.

I'm going to go for Steve.

OK. So it's going to be Andrew, who runs A Handful Of Harmonies,

against Steve from the Eggheads on Music.

And please go to our famous Question Room.

So you are a big music fan, Andrew, you must be?

Indeed I am, yes. All the work that I do is music related. So, yes.

It's your profession as well as your hobby, it's everything?

It is, yes. It's become so.

It was always a hobby that crept into my work,

but gradually the balance has taken over and everything I do now

is music or theatre related. So, yes.

So I'm guessing choral, yes.

-Musicals, yes.

-Yeah.

-Opera, maybe.

-Not so much on the opera.

And then where are we on Depeche Mode and The Stranglers?

Yeah, a good mix.

-OK, fine.

-A bit of an '80s kid, so let's see.

Well, that could be impressive. Good luck, Steve.

Good luck, Andrew. Andrew, first or second?

I may live to regret this, but I'm going to go second.

So the Music round starts with you, Steve.

With which song did Katrina And The Waves win the

Eurovision Song Contest in 1997?

Yeah, you can safely say they're all crimes against vinyl,

but the one that Katrina And The Waves perpetrated was

Love Shine A Light.

That's good, you're right.

That's not easy, either. Love Shine A Light.

OK, Andrew.

What name is given to the sharp sound produced by simultaneously

hitting the edge and the head of a drum with a drumstick?

That would be a rimshot.

That is indeed a rimshot.

Oh, wow! Yay!

Steve, which Beatles song

was the best-selling track of the 1960s in the UK?

Mmm. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think it was She Loves... I mean, Blackbird wasn't a single anyway,

it's off the White album.

Hey Jude I think were probably the longest single,

but She Loves You, Beatlemania, the height of,

so that's me answer.

She Loves You is correct and that begins with a great,

-big drumroll, doesn't it?

-It does.

Brr-rhm, brr-rhm, brr-rhm - like that.

Your second question, Andrew.

Which group's 1979 single, Rappers Delight, is credited as being

one of the first to bring hip-hop to a wider audience?

This is trickier, I was only four.

Can you repeat the question for me?

Which group's 1979 single, Rappers Delight,

is credited as being one of the first to bring hip-hop to

a wider audience?

I'm tossing up between Public Enemy and the Sugarhill Gang.

I've never heard of the Sugarhill Gang.

Um...

In my mind, I'm not sure that Public Enemy aren't later.

I'm going to go with the Sugarhill Gang.

Steve, is he right?

-He is right.

-Yeah, Sugarhill Gang it is. That's good.

-Phew!

-OK, Steve, third question.

For three out of three.

You To Me Are Everything was a 1976 UK number one single

for which group?

I won't torment you by singing it because the team opposite me

do it far better than I do, but it's the Real Thing.

Real Thing is the right answer. Well done.

A great song. OK, Andrew,

-to stay in.

-No pressure.

No pressure.

Captain on the line here.

Veteran rocker Neil Young's 2016 album Earth comprises

a series of songs interspersed with what?

Oh, this is going to be a complete guess.

And I'm cross about that because I knew Steve's question.

I'm going to take out TV commercials,

cos I'm thinking Earth and TV doesn't always go.

When you said the question, for some reason, I thought poetry.

So I'm sort of leaning towards ritual chanting.

But then with Earth,

I'm drawn to animals. This is a complete guess.

Um, I'm going to go with animal noises.

Yes, you're right, animal noises it is, well done.

Well done.

Sometimes a clue in the question can lead you astray, as well.

-So, well played.

-Thank you.

Three out of three to you both, the score's level.

This is tight, the music director versus one of the newest Eggheads.

Sudden Death now, I don't give you options, Steve.

Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is often performed in the

weeks around which public holiday?

I think it's well known as a Christmassy sort of thing,

so, Christmas, Jeremy.

Christmas is right.

Andrew, Sudden Death.

Which pop star played the part of Jim MacLaine in the 1970s films

That'll Be The Day and Stardust?

I don't know why this name has just come into my head,

whether I've read something somewhere, but I'm going to say Roy Orbison.

OK, we're on Sudden Death here.

If you've got it wrong, the contest is over.

If you've got it wrong, the round is over.

-Ladies, do we know? ALL:

-David Essex.

-Oh, they all know!

It's David Essex. It's David Essex. So British, obviously.

ANDREW SIGHS Steve, you're through.

You're through on Music, against a music director.

-You're very good.

-Chips fell nice, Jeremy.

-JEREMY CHUCKLES

Steve, Andrew, please return, rejoin your team-mates.

OK, so A Handful Of Harmonies, our Challengers, have lost two brains

from the final round, including the captain!

On Music of all things!

The Eggheads have not lost any so far, but they are very good.

Now's the time to turn it around.

The subject is Geography.

Who would like this?

-Yes, it looks like me.

-Yeah, that'll be Sue, please.

Sue, against which Egghead?

It obviously can't be Barry or Steve.

Beth.

OK, brilliant.

Sue from A Handful Of Harmonies

to play Beth on Geography.

Good luck to you both.

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

So, Geography, Beth. Where in the world would you like to go?

Oh, New Zealand, I think, would be my ideal place to go.

-So you've been to Australia?

-No, never been to Australia.

The furthest I've been is San Francisco.

I went there to visit my father, who was working on a merchant boat

at the time. We sailed back

through the Panama Canal, across the Atlantic,

-back to England.

-Sue, what about your travels?

-I have been to New Zealand and Australia.

-And should Beth go?

Oh, gosh, yes, without a doubt. Amazing.

If you had to choose between New Zealand and Australia,

-which would you pick?

-New Zealand, definitely.

-OK.

Sue, would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, please, if I may.

OK, good luck, Sue, here we go.

Which of these countries lies

on the constantly active geologic border

between North America and mainland Europe?

I'm going to go Iceland, please.

Iceland is correct.

Well done, Sue.

Beth, the Tropic of Capricorn passes through Western Australia,

Northern Territory and which other Australian state?

Well, South Australia sounds like it's in the south

and Tasmania is the island underneath the south,

so it's got to be Queensland.

Queensland is quite right.

Well done, Beth. Sue, over to you.

Which town sits directly to the north

across the River Mersey from Runcorn?

It's not Wolverhampton.

It's not Warrington, its Widnes.

Yeah, brilliant. It is Widnes. Beth, back to you.

Dar es Salaam is a city in which African country?

Well, it's certainly not South Africa.

Dar es Salaam sounds like a rather Islamic name,

but I'm pretty sure it's not Morocco either.

So I'm going with Tanzania.

Yes, Tanzania is quite right.

Two out of two. And Sue, back to you.

Due to its approximate shape,

what name do the French sometimes use to refer to their country?

I'd say it's Le Pentagon.

Le Pentagon.

-Any eggheads know here?

-Hexagon.

-France is hexagonal.

Hexagonal, I'm afraid, Hexagon.

So, Beth, your chance to take the round.

On which a Mediterranean island are the Troodos Mountains located?

Troodos is T-R-O-O-D-O-S.

It's not somewhere I've been. Troodos.

None of those islands sound particularly mountainous.

I can't eliminate anything, cos I'm just...

This is going to be... a blind guess.

And I bet Barry's been.

I'm going to go with...

Cyprus.

Cyprus. Let's see if Barry likes that. Barry?

I like that very much indeed.

It's the right answer.

So you have been there, Barry, yeah?

-I have.

-The Troodos Mountains are indeed in Cyprus.

Well done, Beth, you won the round there.

Sorry, Sue, you've been knocked out by our new Egghead.

As a result... Well, there's a bit of history, though.

You know, she's playing well.

You won't to be able to help your team in the final round.

So please come back and we will see what happens next.

The highest peak on the Troodos mountain range is...?

-Mount Olympus.

-Mount Olympus, Barry, that's right.

-But what's the crucial rider here?

-It's not the Mount Olympus

-that's the highest mountain in Greece.

-Yeah.

So they were running out of names or something?

Well, for high places, it was the home of the gods in Greece,

so the highest point of the island seemed an obvious choice, I think.

Very good. And you've been... Have you been to either Mount Olympus?

I've been to the one in Cyprus.

-Oh, right, you've been to this one?

-Yes.

-The one we're talking about?

-Yes, indeed.

You're amazing, Barry. Been to every answer, they say.

And it keeps being proved correct.

A Handful Of Harmonies have now lost three brains from the final round.

If it was a choir session and this happened, what would you do?

-We'd crack on. And we'd hope for the best.

-Or maybe tune up again?

The Eggheads have not lost a brain yet, but, you know,

they lost recently with only one player in the final.

And that was really recent, wasn't it, Eggs?

Still smarting from it. The next subject is Arts & Books.

Who would like this?

-Do you want me to go? It's up to you.

-Shall I go?

Genevieve will take this one, please.

Genevieve, against which Egghead?

Just Judith or Kevin on the right here.

Kevin.

Genevieve from A Handful Of Harmonies

versus Kevin from the Eggheads on Arts & Books.

And please, for the last time, go to our Question Room.

So, Arts & Books, Genevieve. Would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first.

Here is your first question.

In the Harry Potter books,

from which platform at King's Cross do trains for Hogwarts depart?

9 3/4.

-9 3/4 is quite right.

-Well done.

OK, Kevin, Marcel Proust's

A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu,

one of the longest novels of all time,

is commonly known in English as In Search Of...what?

Yes, it's translated in various ways,

but one of the English translations

is In Search Of Lost Time.

Lost Time.

Yes, Lost Time is quite right.

Genevieve. The name of

which of these literary characters translates as "fox"?

Wild guess, D'Artagnan.

That is a tiny bit wild.

I'm not sure how we get to Zorro from fox,

but the answer is Zorro.

Kevin, help us with the language here.

-Spanish.

-Spanish for fox?

-Yeah.

Kevin. Which character

in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night exits at one point with the line,

"I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you"?

It's the steward, Malvolio,

who's just been the victim of a...

rather cruel trick, played by

Toby Belch and Andrew Aguecheek

and various others, which has wound up with him being incarcerated.

It all goes a bit too far, really.

And he's not happy, understandably.

So it's Malvolio.

Malvolio is right.

OK, back to you, Genevieve. You need to get this question right.

O Pioneers!, set in Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century,

is a novel by which writer?

I've no idea.

Oh, middle f'diddle - Lucy Maud Montgomery.

-Eggies?

-Willa Cather.

It is Willa Cather, I'm afraid.

So, Kevin's won, Genevieve, sorry.

But it's just a round, it's not the whole battle, it's not the war.

Kevin will be in the final. If you come back to us, both of you,

we will play the all-important final round.

So, this is what we have been playing towards.

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

But those of you who lost your head-to-heads

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

So, that is Andrew and Jackie and Sue and Genevieve,

all from this side, from A Handful Of Harmonies.

Would you please now leave the studio?

OK, Teresa, I'm sorry it ended up like this.

I know this was not the strategy.

-No, definitely not.

-The musical direction.

But you're still playing to win A Handful Of Harmonies £4,000.

Beth, Steve, Barry, Judith and Kevin,

you're playing for something that money can't buy -

the Eggheads' reputation.

And to turn this stroll into a roll.

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

This time, they're all General Knowledge.

You are allowed to confer. I'm sorry, that doesn't help you.

Teresa, the question is,

is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five?

I'm sure you can do it. Would you like to go first or second?

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

Good luck.

And here is your first question.

Which 19th-century novel starts with the line,

"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty

"which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress"?

I don't think it's Anna Karenina.

And I can't decide between the other two.

I think it...

might be Middlemarch.

-Eggheads, is she right?

-Yes.

-Yes.

Yes, you're right, well done.

Obviously, Miss Brooke is a character in Middlemarch.

OK, your question.

Eggheads, San Remo is a city

on the Mediterranean coast of which country?

-San Remo? It's Italy.

-Italy.

-Italy?

-Yeah.

It's Italy.

Italy is correct.

Back to you, Genevieve.

Which actor was billed in one of his early films as Duke Morrison?

Well, just for the fact that you said Duke,

I'm going to go for John Wayne.

-John Wayne. Because?

-You said Duke.

-And what's your connection?

-And that's his nickname.

-Right.

Judith, can you rule out Gregory Peck, with whom you once had dinner?

Yes, I think she's absolutely right.

You are right, well done, it is John Wayne.

Two out of two. Eggheads,

in which century did the Austrian psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach

first develop his now famous inkblot test?

-20th.

-20th. It's got to be 20th.

-20th?

-It's fairly recent, isn't it?

It wasn't as early as the 16th or 18th.

No, I don't think they had psychiatrists in those days.

-Um...united on 20th?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

We're all united on the 20th century.

20th century is right.

Playing quite well.

But get this one right, Teresa,

and maybe a wheel will fall off on the other side.

Which of these bodies was formed in 1972?

It's just a guess, I'm afraid.

Um...

I'm changing my mind.

I was thinking Civil Aviation Authority,

but then I think about nationalisations,

I'm going to go for National Coal Board.

National Coal Board, as in what,

-nationalising the coal mines and all that kind of thing?

-Yeah.

-It's the Civil Aviation Authority.

-Which I ruled out.

OK, Eggheads, your third question. For the round and the contest.

In 1973, the first worldwide colour telecast occurred

when a concert in Hawaii by which of the following

was beamed via satellite around the globe

and seen by up to 1.5 billion people?

That's got to be Elvis, surely.

Elvis? '73.

-Hawaii. I was thinking Elvis before they came up.

-Me too.

As soon as he said Hawaii, I thought Elvis.

Sinatra is a possibility.

-Yeah.

-Certainly.

-Especially beamed around the world.

I mean, you'd think it would be bigger than Wings, wouldn't you?

-Elvis, he's your man.

-I think Elvis.

-Being Hawaii would be...

-I'm hoping a bell was rung, you know?

-Yeah.

-It seems the logical one.

-Yeah.

-Elvis?

-I don't know for sure, but I'm happy to go with Elvis.

-Shall we go with Elvis?

-He's left the building.

We're going to go with Elvis,

with the possibility that it might be Frank Sinatra, but not Wings.

So Elvis is our choice.

Yeah, my brother would know this immediately,

cos he's got tapes and all sorts of this event

because he's a massive fan of Elvis Presley.

We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.

I'm guessing you probably knew that, Teresa, did you?

-Well, I would have guessed that.

-The Elvis thing. Yeah.

Bad luck. Playing against five is not easy,

particularly when they're all in sync, as they have been today.

-But thanks for coming.

-Thank you very much.

-Hope you enjoyed it.

-We have, yeah.

-Commiserations to our challengers, A Handful Of Harmonies,

who brought music to us. Which is always welcome.

The Eggheads have of course ruined the atmosphere

and done what comes naturally to them.

And here they are, reigning supreme over Quiz Land.

It does mean you won't be going home with the £4,000,

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

And it's quite a bit of a run you're on now, Eggheads.

Who will beat you?

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

have the brains to take the money.

It's going to be £5,000 in our next programme.

Until then, goodbye.