Episode 33 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 you are on very good form, aren't you?

-Are we?

-Yes.

-"Are we?" says Chris. OK, well, we'll see.

Taking on our quiz champions today

are 2Morrows' People. Now, this friends and family team

quiz together every Thursday night

at the Bulls Head at Broken Cross in Macclesfield.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Hazel. I'm a retired primary school teacher.

Hi, I'm Roger.

I'm a retired design and technology teacher.

Hi, I'm Jackie and I'm a child-minder.

Hi, I'm Linda and I'm a part-time museum assistant.

Hi, I'm Susan. I'm a retired retail manager.

-So, Hazel and team, welcome.

-Thank you.

-Hello.

-Quiz together, Hazel, do you?

-Yes. Every Thursday.

And you've got all your strengths and weaknesses worked out?

Yes, we hope so.

-And your T-shirt's got the actual team name on it, hasn't it?

-Yes.

Let's have a look there. So, it's... That's right. OK.

-I was interested, you've got the apostrophe after the S.

-Yes.

Because we are "two Morrows" and they are people, rather than person.

Yeah, I see.

Is that right, Eggheads? Where do we go on apostrophes?

I think you've got it in the right place

cos Hazel and Roger are the Morrows.

Morrow is their surname, so they are Morrows.

Together, they are the Morrows.

And because the people belong to them, the apostrophe is after the S.

So if it's plural, it goes after the S. OK.

And there was a programme, wasn't there, called The Tomorrow People?

-There was.

-There was, yes.

-A science-fiction programme.

Right. Well, Barry will have seen that. Barry, did you?

Yes. Many years ago though, wasn't it?

Probably in it, were you? HE LAUGHS

Good luck, team.

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.

Now, 2Morrows' People, I don't know whether this is good news or bad -

-they have won the last 17 games.

-Ooh.

-Is that good news or bad?

-That's good news for us!

It means there's an absolutely cracking jackpot

for you to win today. £18,000.

So would you like to start?

-Ooh, we certainly would.

-Yes.

-Right.

Well, the first head-to-head battle will be on the subject of Film & TV.

You've got Chris, Dave, Kevin, Barry and Lisa to choose from.

It's going to be Susan...

-Yeah, no, I'll go first.

-Are you happy?

-So that's Sue.

-Susan, OK.

-Now, who would you like?

It's like one of those police identity parades.

-Barry?

-Sorry?

-Barry.

-Yeah.

-Very good.

OK, so I can't guarantee that The Tomorrow People comes up

as a TV show, but let's see.

Susan from 2Morrows' People versus our own Barry from the Eggheads.

And to ensure there's no confounding,

please take your positions in our legendary Question Room.

-OK, Susan, good luck on Film & TV.

-Thank you.

Your choice against Barry. Would you like to go first or second?

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

And here is your first question.

Who played Uncle Bryn in the sitcom Gavin & Stacey?

Well, I think I know this one, Jeremy.

I was a great fan of that show.

And that's Rob Brydon.

Rob Brydon is the right answer. Well done.

Very funny show.

Love that show.

OK, Barry, the Walk of Fame,

a stretch of pavement containing more than 2,000 stars,

named after celebrities, is a feature of which US city?

Well, I've actually walked down the Walk of Fame,

so I know for a fact it's...

I think it starts at Grauman's Theatre in Los Angeles.

There's not been a single answer in Eggheads history

you haven't been to. This just proves it.

Los Angeles is correct.

Over to you, Susan.

In which 2012 film does Mila Kunis play the girlfriend of

Mark Wahlberg's character, John Bennett?

Erm, I'm just trying to think.

I've seen Mark Wahlberg on The Graham Norton Show.

I think, if it's him, it's comedy.

So I think that might be Ted.

It is Ted. Nicely done. Two out of two.

Your team are excited here. Clapping every one.

OK, Barry, which famous sportsmen played

a co-pilot called Roger Murdock in the 1980 film Airplane! ?

Oh, goodness. I've seen Airplane! on a number of occasions

and this doesn't immediately come to mind.

I think I'll discount Jack Nicklaus.

I can't imagine him being in a film.

George Foreman...

I don't remember any grills in Airplane!

So on that basis, I shall go for

the basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the right answer.

Right, over to you now, Susan. See if you can get three out of three.

Who played Jason Bourne in the 1988 television miniseries

adapted from Robert Ludlum's book The Bourne Identity?

Gosh. I mean, I know that

Matt Damon plays him in the films.

I don't think it would be Richard Chamberlain.

I think he'd be too old maybe by then. Em...

I'm going to say Tom Berenger.

-It's actually Richard Chamberlain.

-Oh gosh. Sorry!

-Yeah, so...

-What was he, The Thorn Birds and all that, was he?

-Yeah.

-Dr Kildare.

Classic old-style actor.

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

In which subject did Terrence Malick lecture at MIT

before his career as a film director?

Goodness me, that is a great question!

Civil engineering doesn't seem to make sense for somebody

who's moved into film directing.

I'm going to take a wild guess and go for Philosophy.

-You've got it right, Barry. Well done.

-I'm so sorry over that.

I don't deserve this, I really don't.

Oh, Susan, you've just let him in there.

Not to worry. Early days. Barry will be in the final.

Please return to us. Re-join your teams and we'll play on.

So, as it stands,

2Morrows' People have lost a brain from the final round.

The Eggheads are all still sitting pretty.

The next subject is Science.

What about this? Science.

-Do you want me to do Science?

-Yes.

-Right, OK.

-OK, Linda, just before you go, choose an Egghead.

-Oh, yes.

-What do you reckon?

-Give Dave a go?

-Dave? OK. Dave.

-Unless you want to take Kevin on.

-No, thank you!

THEY LAUGH

I think you had a bit of a sticky time on Science last game.

-Oh, yeah, I got turned over in my last Science round.

-Yeah.

So, Linda from 2Morrows' People versus Dave from the Eggheads.

Please go to the Question Room now.

Science, Linda. Would you like to go first or second?

Can I go first please, Jeremy?

And here we go with your first question. Good luck.

What is the name of the owl with a six-foot wingspan thought to

be re-colonising the UK that is scientifically known as Bubo bubo?

A six-foot wingspan? That's pretty big.

The only one of those that I've actually heard of is the eagle owl,

so I think I'm going to go down the middle for the eagle owl.

And you're right. Well done. Eagle owl, it is.

That is very big, you're right.

Dave, Cananga odorata is the scientific name

for which Asian evergreen,

famous for the fragrant oil made from its flowers?

Oh, dear. I've not heard of these at all.

Erm...

I'm going to go with the first one, ylang-ylang.

-Ylang-ylang?

-It sounds like a Bay City Rollers song, Jeremy.

It does sound like a Bay City Rollers song.

It's the right answer. Ylang-ylang.

OK, Linda, I'm afraid he's pulled that one out the bag. Your question.

In August 2009, a British team set a new world record

for steam cars by achieving which speed?

Goodness me!

Steam engines are quite big things and I would think they were

quite cumbersome, so I'll go 98mph on the basis that it's

going to be a big thing to move along. 98mph.

It's actually 148. I'm sorry.

So, Dave has a chance to take the lead here.

The pioneering female aviator Jean Batten who became famous for

her flights in the 1930s was born in which country?

I've heard the name. And I can't think of where she was flying from.

Jean Batten...

Let's go Canada.

-Anyone now on the Eggheads' side?

-New Zealand.

-New Zealand is the answer.

-OK.

So you're equal after two questions. Linda, back to you.

Which British engineer and mathematician

patented the coaxial cable in 1880?

Right, another one that I've not really heard of before. Erm...

And I've got no way of eliminating any of the names, so I think

I'm just going to go down the right hand side and say George Stokes.

It's Oliver Heaviside. So Dave has a chance to take the round.

Hans Berger, born in 1873,

became celebrated for his pioneering work in recording what?

-This for the round.

-Could be brain waves.

But it could be any of the three.

I'm going to go radioactivity.

No, Dave, it's brain waves.

So, you've had a let-off there, Linda.

Dave on Science is getting to be a bit of a thing, Dave, isn't it?

-Yes, it is, isn't it?

-Interesting.

OK, his last slip-up was on Science, Linda.

So this is your moment to take advantage.

But it gets a bit harder now. I don't give you alternatives.

Sudden Death. Your question.

Which name taken from a president of France

is used for the largest species of zebra,

otherwise known as the imperial zebra?

Mitterrand. I don't know.

It's not Mitterrand. It's prior to that.

1882, basically an emperor of Abyssinia gave one to

the then president of France, Jules Grevy.

So they're called Grevy's.

OK, Dave, you can win the round with this Sudden Death question.

For what does the letter S stand

in the computing acronym BIOS?

I'll have to go, system.

Basic input/output system. You're right.

System, it is. You're in the final.

Sorry, Linda, I wish I'd given him the Grevy's question there.

I should've gone the other way around. I would have known

-that last one.

-I'm sure. Bless you. OK, well, come back to us.

Linda's out, Dave's still in and we'll play the next round.

As it stands, 2Morrows' People have lost two brains

from the final round.

The Eggheads are still sitting there. So let's turn the tide now.

Music is your next subject.

-Oh, perfect! That's me.

-Jackie?

-Yes.

Good, good. Jackie, who would you like to take on?

It could be Kevin or Chris or Lisa?

-Chris.

-Oh, straight there.

-Yeah, Chris.

Jackie from 2Morrows' People versus Chris from the Eggheads on Music.

Please go to the Question Room now.

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

I'll go first please.

Good luck. And here we go, Jackie, with your first question on Music.

Megadeth and Slayer

are bands that both associated with which music genre?

Well, I think I can safely say I'm going to rule out country.

I'm going to go with thrash metal.

Absolutely right.

Thrash metal, it is. I always used to be amazed with dear Daphne.

She would know that and then she'd be able to name the drummers.

-Yeah.

-She was in one of the bands, but she wore a mask.

THEY LAUGH

Chris, your question.

What type of music is the traditional tune,

The British Grenadiers?

HE WHISTLES THE TUNE

It's a march, Jeremy.

You're right.

That question is almost the best music question you've ever had,

-isn't it?

-Yeah.

Combines the military and there's probably a train in it somewhere?

No.

Jackie, which of these artists has achieved 17 top 10 singles in the UK

without any getting to number one?

Oh gosh.

I'm not actually sure of this one.

I'm going to go with Lionel Richie.

It's Janet Jackson.

So she's been pumping them out but not ever getting to the top.

Hmm.

Chris, your question.

Which US band had their first UK number one single with

I Don't Feel Like Dancin' in 2006?

Er, I don't feel like dancin', no dancin' for me today.

That's Scissor Sisters.

Oh, wow! Where did that come from?

A-ah! You'd be surprised.

Ha-ha! Brilliant.

Scissor Sisters is right, well done.

OK, so there are moments where music breaks through in your life, Chris.

-Hmm.

-Jackie, your question.

Which term is used to describe the group of composers that

included Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and Alban Berg?

Hmm. Again, I'm not sure of the answer on this one.

I think I will go with the Second Viennese School.

Oh.

I heard an appreciative noise from

-the Eggheads. Is she right?

-Yes.

Yeah, you are. It is the Second Viennese School.

So, you have two.

This is Chris' third question. You can take the round, Chris.

Which of these stars of the British music scene in the 1940s

found fame as a band leader?

It was Ivy Benson And Her All Girl Orchestra. Ivy Benson.

The correct answer is Ivy Benson.

Well done, Chris, you've taken that round. Sorry, Jackie.

That is the kind of question he knows.

And as for Scissor Sisters, we'll never understand that.

Come back to us. You have been beaten by our Egghead

and as a result will not be in the final round.

But there's still much to play for!

Re-join your teams. We'll play on.

2Morrows' People have lost three brains from the final round.

The Eggheads have still not lost any, but as I said earlier,

they are on a very good run. A lot of teams have gone this way.

You can still turn it around. The next subject is Arts & Books.

Who would like this? It's going to be one of the bosses.

-I think Hazel should do it.

-Hazel should do it.

Do you want to do it, Hazel?

-Just to say you've been in the Question Room!

-Yes.

OK, before you go, choose an Egghead.

You can have either Kevin or Lisa.

-I'll try Kevin, please.

-Why not?

-Why not?

You can come away and say you've been up against the great man.

Good idea. Hazel from 2Morrows' People,

taking on Kevin from the Eggheads.

And he knows that this is the moment at which

it all starts to unwind for the Eggs.

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

Hazel, good luck here. Thank you.

Let's see if you can knock out the big man.

Would you like to go first or second on Arts & Books?

I'll go first, please.

OK, Hazel, here we go.

Shakespeare's As You Like It is described as what type of play?

Well, it's certainly not a history or a tragedy. It's a comedy.

It is a comedy. Spot on. Well done.

Kevin, over to you.

In George Orwell's Animal Farm, what type of creature is Snowball?

Snowball is a pig.

Yes, Snowball is a pig.

Hazel, in both 2004 and 2011,

Jojo Moyes won the novel of the year award

presented by which association?

I've never heard of Jojo Moyes, I'm very sorry to admit it.

Don't think it's science-fiction.

And I don't think it's crime writers.

I'll go for romantic novelists, please.

-Let's check with your team-mates.

-Yeah, definitely, definitely.

Your daughter confirms it. Well done, Hazel. Absolutely right.

Romantic novelists. Good play.

Kevin, the writer JP Donleavy was born in which city in 1926?

Hmm. Now, he's often...

He's thought of as an Irish writer.

But he obviously wasn't born in Dublin or...

I have an idea he may have been born in New York, so I'll say New York.

Yes, you are right. It is New York.

Oh, drat, I was hoping he was going to come unstuck there, Hazel.

OK, your third question.

Get this right and put him under some pressure.

Whose 1905 painting known as

The Hungry Lion Throws Itself On The Antelope

is thought to have contributed to

the naming of the fauvism movement?

And fauvism is F-A-U-V-I-S-M.

Well, Henri Rousseau did do quite a few wildlife paintings...

I really don't know, but I will try

Robert Delaunay.

It actually is Henri Rousseau.

So, Kevin, you have a chance to take the round here.

Which author wrote the 2014 novel The Taxidermist's Daughter?

I know I've seen the title, but that's about as far as it goes.

I don't associate it with Kate Mosse.

It might be her, but I'll rule her out, I think.

It's a 50-50, so I'll try Catherine Coulter.

It is Kate Moss.

-It is Kate Mosse, OK.

-So you've both got two.

After three questions each, you are level.

How about that, Hazel?

-You've taken him to Sudden Death!

-Pleased with that.

-That's good.

So it gets a bit harder now, Hazel. I don't give you alternatives.

The neo-concrete art movement, Hazel,

developed in which South American country in the 1950s?

I will say...

Brazil.

Brazil is the right answer!

JEREMY LAUGHS

Here we go, Kevin.

Which novel published in 2002 by William Boyd

features the leading character Logan Mountstuart?

I know the novel and it was made into a TV miniseries as well.

But I'm not sure I'm going to be able to remember the title.

No, I'll fall on my sword. Sorry.

I could probably think of it after about half an hour or something,

-but it's not there.

-Any Human Heart is the answer.

So well done, Hazel. You're in the final round.

Hey!

Knocked out Kevin! There we are.

It was a good strategy to try and take him down.

You will be in the final. In fact,

if you both come back to us, we will play that final round now.

-Absolutely brilliant play, Hazel.

-Thank you.

-Kevin has done

- I'm just noting this down - 85 Arts & Books rounds.

-He's only ever lost six times.

-Wow!

-So a little bit of Eggheads history there.

-Thank you.

Really well done.

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, Jackie, Linda and Susan from 2Morrows' People

and Kevin from the Eggheads - how often do I say that -

would you please leave the studio?

Hazel and Roger, you're playing to win 2Morrows' People £18,000.

Lisa, Barry, Dave and Chris, you're playing for something that

money can't really buy, the Eggheads' precious reputation.

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

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

So, Hazel and Roger,

the question is, can you with your two brains defeat these four?

And there's a lot of money riding on it. £18,000.

-Do you want to go first or second?

-I think we go first?

-Yes.

We'll go first.

Here we go. Good luck to you both.

Rouen is the capital of which of the 13 metropolitan regions of France

that came into being in 2016?

-What do you think?

-Ile-de-France is the Paris area,

-isn't it?

-Yes.

-Grand Est sounds like it's in the east of the country.

-Mm-hmm.

And I do believe Rouen's in Normandie.

So Normandie?

Normandie is the right answer. Well done.

Good work, Roger.

Eggheads, the science-fiction term Terran refers to

an inhabitant of which planet?

-Well, "terra" is the Earth.

-Earthling.

-As in "terraforming" which is making a planet look like the Earth.

-Yes.

Yeah?

-All happy with this?

-I think I'm happy with this.

-Go with it.

I believe that's Earth, Jeremy.

-It is indeed Earth.

-Well done.

OK, back to you.

Playing well so far!

The term Sublime Porte - and Porte is P-O-R-T-E -

historically refers to the imperial court of which Empire?

I don't think it's the Ottoman.

Erm...

-Ottoman's the one that I would have leant towards.

-Is it?

But I don't know.

Go on, then. Go with you.

-OK?

-Yeah.

We're not sure at all, but I'm leaning towards Ottoman,

so I think we'll go with that one.

Let's see what the Eggheads know.

I have walked through the Sublime Porte, which is a main fancy gate

of the Topkapi Palace, which is the Palace of the Sultans in Istanbul.

So Ottoman is correct.

Ottoman is right. Well done!

Playing really well. The Morrows. Let's see.

Eggheads, a caubeen is a cap or beret

that has been traditionally worn by which regiments in the British Army?

Caubeen is C-A-U-B-E-E-N. Caubeen.

-The "een" ending suggests an Irish word to me.

-Spelling again, sorry.

-C-A-U-B-E-E-N.

-"Een" does.

-Yeah, Irish.

-It's tam o' shanter that's Scottish, isn't it?

-"Een".

-"Een" suggests Irish.

I would agree with you there.

Etymologically, I'd take Irish.

Glengarry bonnets and tam o' shanter.

OK, so we are all in agreement?

OK, so, yeah, just going off the word, we reckon that's Irish.

Irish is the correct answer.

I'm sorry.

I was really hoping they might just slip and stumble there. OK, 2-2.

Completely level. Playing for £18,000. Third question.

Get this right, you may not have to do another day's work today.

Here we go.

Which dwarf planet is named after the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth?

Ceres isn't a Hawaiian goddess. That's a Roman one, I think.

Eris doesn't sound very Hawaiian to me.

Right.

So I'd tend to go for the third one, which I can't pronounce!

Right, as you've probably gathered,

we're not at all sure about this one.

But...

OK, we'll go with Haumea.

Haumea. Hazel, you ruled out Ceres.

-Yes, just on the fact that I think that that's a Roman goddess.

-Yeah.

And Eris, anyone know Eris here?

Eris is the goddess of discord in Greek mythology.

She was the person who threw the golden apple

which started off the Trojan War.

OK, so to interrupt Barry because I want to tell them,

you're right! OK!

He was going to get there and spoil it. Well done.

You've got three out of three in the final. Playing for £18,000.

You couldn't be playing better.

And that wasn't guesswork, you were actually working on knowledge there.

Really good play, Morrows.

Eggheads, you need to get this question right.

The most recent occasion that one party won more than 50%

of the popular vote in a UK general election was in which year?

I'm inclined to say '45. I'm inclined to say that.

Let's take our time.

Cos '31 was the National Government, wasn't it?

Yes. I can't believe it's '31. Rule that out straightaway.

It was a National Government anyway, wasn't it? It was a coalition.

But did Tony Blair get a huge mandate?

He didn't get 50%. If you're counting there that he's got the

Conservatives, he's got the Lib Dems who, remember, came back as well,

-he's got the Scottish Nationalists.

-There's some SDP.

And the Plaid Cymru.

On reflection, '45 is the one where they came out for Attlee.

-You two are happy with 1945. Mr Hughes? '45?

-If it's '97, mea culpa.

But I really would strongly argue for '45.

Well, there's plenty of inkles to go with,

so we'll go '45 and see how we go, shall we?

OK, much discussion, 1945.

1945 is your answer.

It's 1931.

We say well done to the Challengers,

you have won!

THEY LAUGH

Well done, well done! JEREMY LAUGHS

Well done.

It couldn't go to a nicer team.

Kevin, did you know?

-It hasn't happened since before the Second World War.

-Yeah.

-Listen, well done.

-Thank you.

And I think Kevin would have driven them towards the earlier date,

-so getting him out was crucial.

-Well played.

Very good strategy there. Well done!

Well, the run had to end, didn't it? The run had to end.

And you played a blinder there. Absolutely brilliant. Well done.

So, what can I say?

We'll go back and look at our percentages in our general elections

and they'll live to fight another day.

Meanwhile, congratulations to our Challengers. You've won £18,000.

You can go back to Macclesfield

and be officially cleverer than the Eggheads

and tell everyone that. You've proved they can be beaten.

They haven't been beaten for a long time. Join us next time.

I wonder if the next game will be as exciting as this one?

We'll see if a new team of Challengers

can be as successful as 2Morrows' People.

Until next time, goodbye.