Episode 11 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.

Taking on the might of our quiz goliaths today are

The Thoroughbreds, from Yorkshire.

Now, this team share a passion for horse racing,

and are members of a syndicate owning 13 horses.

Let's meet them. Hi, I'm Terry.

I'm a retired consultant psychiatrist.

Hi, I'm Stephen. I am a train driver instructor.

Hi, I'm David. I'm a chartered accountant.

Hi, I'm Phil. I'm a retired harbour master.

Hi, I'm Paul. I'm a port and site services director.

So, Terry and team, hello.

Hello. Great to see you, and all centring around horses, Terry?

Yes, we're all members of a racehorse ownership club called

Grange Park Racing, which was founded in Leeds

five or six years ago now.

From a membership of one initially, we now have 100 members,

and we support our 13 racehorses

who run in our colours wherever they run.

Have you ever had two of your horses race against each other?

We have once, yeah.

That wasn't such a good experience.

But we have had one special day when we went to Beverley Racecourse

in the morning, we had a winner there,

and we went on to Ripon or Redcar in the afternoon,

and had a different winner there.

I hope this is a special day today. Good luck, team.

Every day there is ?1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our Challengers.

However, as you know, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads,

that prize money rolls over to our next show.

Now, Thoroughbreds, the Eggheads have won just the last two games,

so there is ?3,000 for you to play for today.

Would you like to start? Oh, yes.

I thought so! The first head-to-head battle

is on the subject of Film and TV.

You can choose between Judith, Beth, Pat, Dave, and Lisa.

I will do that. Is it going to be Paul?

OK, our port and site services director.

Against which Egghead? Any one of the five, Paul.

Judith? Yeah, OK. We will go for Judith, please, Jeremy.

So, it is Paul from The Thoroughbreds

versus Judith from the Eggheads.

I can see you're looking very keen.

To ensure there is no conferring,

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

Paul, you were the Mayor of Beverley at some point.

I was three years ago, Jeremy, yes.

You're playing Film and TV against Judith. Yes.

Would you like to go first or second, Paul?

I will go first, please, Jeremy.

Here we go. Which UK reality TV show is filmed in Murwillumbah, New South Wales?

Well, I am so not a fan of reality television,

but I think I can narrow this one down.

I can eliminate Big Brother and X Factor,

and say it's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

is quite right, the jungle.

Judith, your question.

Young Hyacinth, which was first shown on the BBC in 2016,

is a prequel to which other sitcom?

I think that refers to Mrs Bucket, so it's Keeping Up Appearances.

Keeping Up Appearances is the right answer, Judith. Well done.

Paul, back to you. The Return Of Doctor Mysterio

is the title of which television programme's 2016 Christmas special?

I've seen two of the Sherlocks,

so I would say then it would be Doctor Who.

Doctor Who is correct.

OK, Judith, which comedian and actor voices the main canine character,

Max, in the 2016 animated film, The Secret Life Of Pets?

Well, Tom Hanks I don't think is a comedian, is he?

He's an actor, pure and simple.

I don't know who Louis CK is.

Ben Stiller. What is your famous rule, Judith, when you don't...?

Go down the right.

The magic right. And why did you not follow your rule?

Because I have never heard of him.

Louis CK is the answer.

Oh, I should have done it. At your peril, you disobey your own rule.

So, you can take the round with this, Paul.

Lawrence Kasdan,

who found fame as one of the screenwriters

of The Empire Strikes Back,

also wrote the screenplay for which of these films?

I have no idea on this.

I will rule out Bodyguard,

because it's well after The Empire Strikes Back.

I'll hazard a guess at Flashdance, Jeremy.

The answer is The Bodyguard. Right, the one I ruled out! OK.

A chance for you, Judith, to draw level, but if you get this wrong,

you know what happens.

In the film Back To The Future,

what is the first name of Marty McFly's father,

as played by Crispin Glover?

WHISPERS: Back To The Future.

Oh, dear. Well, magic right...

Oh, well, no, it was magic right last time, wasn't it?

I don't know. George.

George is the right answer.

Oh! After three questions each, we go to Sudden Death, Paul.

To make it a little bit harder, I don't give you options.

You ready? I am.

In which British science fiction television series

from the '70s and '80s,

did the heroes battle against the totalitarian forces

of the Terran Federation?

Well, given that it is '70s and '80s, I don't know the answer,

but it's from the time, I will say Blake's 7.

Blake's 7 is right, well done.

All right, Judith, are you going to be knocked out

by the former mayor of Beverley? Let us see.

Who plays Jacqueline Kennedy in the 2016 biopic, Jackie?

Natalie Portman.

Well done, Judith, you're absolutely right. Natalie Portman.

Paul, your question.

The English television presenter, Michael Barratt,

is best known for presenting which BBC evening news and current affairs

programme from 1969 to 1977?

That is Nationwide, Jeremy.

Nationwide is correct.

Judith, your question.

Which American fashion designer directed the 2016 film,

Nocturnal Animals, starring Amy Adams?

Tom Ford. Well done.

OK, so we're level. Sudden Death. Paul, back to you.

Vesuvio's restaurant and The Bada Bing club are

frequently used locations in which TV series?

Bada Bing. Bada Bing.

I don't know. I am going to say...

..Frasier.

No, it is I think maybe the greatest TV drama of all time, The Sopranos.

Right, I've never seen it.

Judith, you have a chance to take the round now.

Who took over BBC One's flagship Friday night TV chat show slot

from Jonathan Ross in 2010?

Graham Norton.

Graham Norton is the right answer. You're through to the final round.

Sorry, Paul, knocked out by Judith

on Sudden Death, and it is just the first round.

Plenty of time for our Challengers to come back.

Please rejoin your team-mates.

As it stands, The Thoroughbreds have lost one brain from the final round.

The Eggheads are all still there.

The next subject is Science.

Science, who would like this?

I think that's going to be me.

Terry? The skipper, our retired psychiatrist, against which Egghead?

I will take on Lisa.

So it's going to be Terry from The Thoroughbreds

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

Science is the subject.

Terry, would you like to go first or second?

I think I will go first, Jeremy.

Here is your first question. Good luck.

Incandescence is defined as the emission of which

of the following, by a hot object?

It could be any one of those three,

but I think it's probably intended to be light, so that's my answer.

It is intended to be light, you're right.

Well done. Lisa, your question.

In a right-angled triangle, Lisa,

what is the name for the side that always lies directly opposite

the right angle?

You ain't going to find a circumference on a triangle.

It's more usually found on a circle.

Well, actually, no, circumference

just means around the outside, so everything has got one.

Ignore me. It is the hypotenuse, Jeremy.

It is indeed the hypotenuse.

OK, back to you, Terry.

Isaac Newton famously wrote in a letter to Robert Hooke,

"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of..." what?

Well, that's a really nice question to come my way.

It's a very, very famous quote, and if I get this wrong,

I am going home immediately.

Giants.

You're right, you're not going home, giants is right.

Thanks. Title of an album by...?

Oasis. Oasis, that's right.

Lisa, a cochlear implant can be inserted surgically to help with

which of the five senses?

It is... It is hearing, isn't it?

Let me just... Yeah, because I suddenly had a big panic, and went,

"Oh, no, hang on, is that an eye thing?"

No, no, I'm sure it is hearing.

Hearing is the right answer.

So you're level, 2-2.

Third question to you, Terry, now.

The mentalis muscles in the face directly allow us to perform which

of these actions?

Yeah, I think it relates to the forehead and the area surrounding

the forehead and the eyes, so I have got to go for blink.

Mentalis, mentalis, anyone?

No. No. No? Nobody here knows.

Any of the Challengers know?

The answer is pout.

You can win the round with this question, Lisa.

Coming from the Greek for "dry", what is the term for a plant that is

able to endure conditions of prolonged drought?

The "xero" thing tends to have to do with water, doesn't it?

"Gameto", I think that is probably...

That is usually around sort of reproductive stuff, isn't it?

Epiphyte...

Let's try Xerophyte.

Xerophyte is the right answer.

Well done, Lisa, you're in the final round.

Sorry, Terry, you have been knocked out.

Return to your teams, and we will play round three.

So, as it stands, The Thoroughbreds have lost two brains now from the

final round. The Eggheads are doing pretty well today.

Maybe back on track, Eggheads, after some difficulties.

The next subject is Geography, so which Thoroughbred would like this?

We said it would be me. That will be me, Jeremy.

OK, Phil, retired harbour master, against...

You can have Dave, Pat, or Beth.

I'd like to go against Beth, please.

Very good. So, Phil from The Thoroughbreds,

Beth from the Eggheads.

What is it, South Asia, is that the key area?

To ensure there is no conferring,

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

Phil, you are a retired harbour master.

I am, Jeremy, yes.

And where was the harbour?

It is the Humber.

Have you travelled much outside the UK, have you?

Before I was harbour master, I was in the Merchant Navy,

so I got a chance, you know, as a younger man to travel worldwide.

Brilliant. Well, you're on Geography.

Phil, do you want to go first or second? I will go first, please.

So, here is your first question. If one were to travel directly west

from Cairo, which is the first country other than Egypt

one would cross?

Right, OK.

Well, Sudan, I think, is a bit further south than Cairo.

Morocco, you certainly would cross,

so it is just a case of whether you would cross Libya before you would

cross Morocco.

I am going to go Libya, Jeremy, but it could be Morocco.

Yes, I can see the problem.

Sudan is quite some way down inside Africa.

The answer is Libya, well done.

Beth, here is yours.

Which of these places is located on the island of Cyprus?

San Antonio is the party capital of Ibiza, if I remember rightly.

Not entirely sure where Syracuse is, but Paphos is certainly in Cyprus.

Paphos is in Cyprus, you are right.

Back to you, Phil. In July 2016,

a temperature of 54 Celsius was recorded in which country,

making it one of the highest temperatures ever recorded on earth?

Right. Well, I have been to all three of these countries,

and the hottest of them, in my experience, was Kuwait.

It got dreadfully hot there in summer.

Japan is more temperate.

Brazil can get hot and humid,

but I'm going to go for Kuwait on this one.

Yes, you're right, it is Kuwait.

Beth, your question.

Garston and Huyton are districts of which English city?

Pretty sure it is not Birmingham, so I am torn between the other two.

I am trying to get an accent of how you would...

..pronounce them.

Huyton.

I bet Dave's sitting there, going, "It's such and such!"

I'm going to go with Liverpool.

You're right. Oh, phew! Well done.

I do everything by parliamentary constituencies,

and Liverpool Huyton was a seat,

and I'm wondering if I know that because it has had somebody famous.

Harold Wilson.

Harold Wilson was the MP there! OK.

So, two out of two for you both, and, Phil,

your third question is this.

The island group of Tristan da Cunha is part of a

British Overseas Territory with St Helena and where else?

OK, Jeremy, well, I've been to two of those locations.

I have been to Pitcairn, that's the Pacific Ocean.

Montserrat's in the Caribbean.

But I've been to Ascension Island as well,

and that is the one that is grouped together with Tristan da Cunha

and the others, so my answer is Ascension Island.

Your travelling is coming in very handy here, isn't it, Phil?

It is. It's great when you've been there.

Ascension Island is quite right.

So, get this wrong, Beth, and you will be knocked out.

What is the name of the tram or light rail system that runs

through Dublin?

Oh, I think I've been on this as well,

or I certainly saw it when I visited Dublin.

It is not O-Train, I am pretty sure.

I am going to go with Luas.

Luas is quite right.

Three out of three for you both. We go to Sudden Death, Phil.

Gets a bit harder - I don't give your alternatives.

Your first question -

which European city is divided by canals that form concentric belts

around it, known as the Grachtengordel?

OK, well, the canal system in Amsterdam

is on a circular basis.

"Grachten" sounds like it could be Dutch,

so I'm going to go for Amsterdam.

Amsterdam is correct.

Sudden Death, Beth. Over to you.

Which is the largest island in the northern hemisphere?

Greenland.

Greenland is right, well done.

Phil, the German federal state of Saarland borders Luxembourg

and which other country?

Right, OK, if it's down...

If it borders Luxembourg,

the countries around Luxembourg are Belgium and Holland.

I'm going to go for Holland.

OK. Beth, do you know this?

I probably... I might have gone for Belgium, actually.

It's France. Ah. Oh!

So, Beth, you have a chance to take the round.

Swiss International Airlines,

the flag-carrying airline of Switzerland,

has its main hub at which city's airport?

I will go for Zurich.

Zurich is the right answer, Beth, well done.

You have won on Geography.

Sorry, Phil, you played so well there.

It is looking a bit tricky for the Challengers today,

but by no means impossible.

Rejoin your team-mates, please, one more round to go.

So, The Thoroughbreds have lost three brains from the final round.

Fallen at three fences, I think we can say.

The Eggheads are still charging round the course,

but let's see if you can stop them.

The next subject, I think you might like this, is Sport.

OK, who is this? That'll be me.

Stephen? Yeah. Our train driver instructor,

against either Pat or Dave.

Let's take Dave.

Very good. Stephen from The Thoroughbreds,

taking on Dave from the Eggheads.

Both, I can tell, love their Sport.

To ensure there is no conferring, please take your positions.

On Sport, Stephen, would you like to go first or second?

First, please.

OK, your first question, Stephen.

Which of these is an event in Olympic road cycling?

Right, that's...

It's not Mountain or Relay, it's Time Trial.

Time Trial is right.

Dave, here's your question.

For which team did Pep Guardiola play football

at international level?

Spain.

Spain is right.

Back to you, Stephen. Queen's Club plays host to a men's ATP tennis

tournament that is traditionally held just after which Grand Slam competition?

Right, it is held just before Wimbledon.

The US Open is in September,

so it is the French Open.

It is the French Open.

Very assured play by you.

Dave, in November 2016,

it was announced that which country's Formula 1 Grand Prix

would be dropped from the 2017 season?

I have got a vague recollection about Germany,

so I am going Germany, please.

Always go with your vague recollections.

Germany is right.

He's going to be a tough one to play, here, Stephen, can you tell?

I think so, yes.

Here is your question.

Approximately how tall is the American Olympic gold medallist

gymnast, Simone Biles?

Right, that's...

That's a difficult one.

The fact that you've asked me the question,

I do not think she is 5'3", she'd be smaller than that,

she's obviously a very small gymnast, so...

I will say 4'8".

You have got it absolutely right. 4'8" is the answer.

4'8", very short.

You have got to get this right, Dave. Yeah.

Which of these is the title of a book

by the cricketer, Mike Brearley?

Right, again, I'm not quite sure.

But I'm going to go The Art Of Captaincy, please.

The Art Of Captaincy is correct.

Three out of three.

This is quite a round.

Sudden Death, Stephen.

Your first question -

the NFL team called the Ravens were established in which city in 1996?

That's Baltimore. Baltimore is right.

Sudden Death, Dave.

The Football League Cup was first staged at the start of which decade?

1960s.

1960s is correct, Dave.

Stephen. The American Earl Joseph Smith,

more commonly known as JR Smith,

is a major name in which Sport?

I don't know. I have to be honest.

American... JR Smith...

Basketball.

Basketball is the right answer.

Dave, to stay in.

The Bislett Stadium is a famous athletics venue

in which European capital city?

Oslo.

Oslo is correct.

Stephen. At the 1972 Olympic Games,

the Soviet athlete Valeriy Borzov won gold in the 200 metres

and which other event?

Was it another...

..running event? Or was it a field one?

I'll go for long jump.

No, it's in a way more obvious,

it's the 100 metres. Ah.

Dave, for the round.

Whom did Leighton Rees beat in the final of the very first

World Darts Championship in 1978?

I think Bristow beat George in 1980...

Uh, '79 champion was John Lowe, so...

Who else was around? There's Alan Evans.

It could conceivably be, but no,

I don't think it was an all-Welsh final.

I've got to go John Lowe.

John Lowe is the right answer.

Really well played, both of you, there, that was an amazing round.

Quickfire, Sudden Death,

it ended with Dave going through to the final.

Return to us, please, and we will play that final round.

So this is what we have been playing towards.

It is time for our exciting final round.

As always, General Knowledge is the subject.

But I'm afraid those of you who lost your head-to-heads

are not allowed to take part.

So, all from this side, I'm afraid, it's Terry and Steve,

Phil and Paul from The Thoroughbreds.

Would you please now leave the studio?

David, you're playing to win The Thoroughbreds ?3,000.

Lisa, Dave, Pat, Beth and Judith,

you're playing for something which money can't buy,

the Eggheads' reputation.

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

This time, the questions are all General Knowledge.

You can confer - I'm sorry that doesn't help you, David, very much.

The question is, can your one brain defeat these five?

Good luck to you. Thank you.

Would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, Jeremy.

OK. Good luck.

Here's your first question.

In 2005, Tom Cruise made headlines when he jumped up and down on

Oprah Winfrey's sofa on TV,

declaring his love for which actress?

I think it must be after Nicole Kidman, so...

..Katie Holmes.

Katie Holmes is correct.

Well done. Didn't end well, that, did it?

No. No. Your question, Eggheads.

Which of these is a word for a piece of waste paper

produced by punching a hole?

Chad. It's the infamous hanging chads.

Mm-hm. Chads.

OK? We're all happy? Fine, yeah.

We think that's the infamous...

..chad.

Chad is right - and is that how we know it,

from the famous election in 2000?

I think so. Otherwise we wouldn't, would we? Yeah.

One each. Over to our Challenger.

Saltine is the name of a type of what food item?

I don't think it's a coated nut.

I'm pretty sure it's not a dumpling, so...

A thin cracker.

Yeah, your team-mates liked that, I can see they're nodding there -

Thin cracker's right,

two out of two. Playing well.

Eggheads, in what series of comic book stories do the rival military

men General Alcazar and General Tapioca sometimes appear?

Hmm... No idea. That's got to be Asterix, hasn't it?

I think it's probably going to be Tintin, isn't it?

Is it? It's very humorous, isn't it? Yeah.

General Tapioca, and General... Yeah. General...

What's the other one? Tintin is quite funny.

Yeah, but so's Asterix, they have...

Well, yeah, but it's very heavily Roman-centred, isn't it? Mm.

Well, I think we can rule out Judge Dredd,

it's not humorous in that sense.

No. It's not quirky. It could be with Tintin that...

He went round the world as a journalist, didn't he?

Yeah. Yeah. A roving cub reporter.

And it could be that they were actual

generals with Tintin's...

..country, leading the campaigns.

Oh... No. I'm firmly in the Asterix camp, I'm afraid.

Yeah? Yeah.

Would they not have gone more for a sort of "us"-type suffix?

Funny cod Latin. You know,

in the same way that all the Gauls are called "X" something.

It just sounds kind of like Herge's humour.

You know, I think he has kind of these...

..Slightly eccentric, quirky... What do you think, Judith?

I don't... No idea.

What do you think?

Linguistically I might be vaguely more inclined to Tintin

as long as we can prove a wartime background, but it's hard.

It's hard. If the majority is Tintin, then Tintin.

Need an answer soon.

But... Beth's not happy. ..I have it on record I said Asterix.

Jeremy, you've seen the trouble we're in.

So with profuse apologies to Beth,

we're going to go for Tintin.

OK, Tintin it is.

Good bit of local democracy here.

Is it the right answer? Do you know the answer here?

I don't, Jeremy. As a matter of fact I do,

cos I was reading this the other day.

Tintin! Oh! Is the answer?

Is the answer. OK.

Gosh, they made heavy work of that, my goodness me.

Maybe you've rattled them. David,

you may just be one question away from ?3,000.

Here it is, your third question.

Berklee College of Music,

the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world,

is based in which city?

Torn between Boston and New York.

So I'll go down the middle and go New York.

The answer is Boston. Ah.

Boston is the answer.

Eggheads have a chance now to take the contest.

Deglutition is the technical term for what very common act?

You're Linguistics... Deconstruct the word.

I've got an argument for swallowing and an argument for standing up.

Well, gluteus maximus...

Yeah. Removing oneself from one's glutes would suggest standing up.

But then... It would suggest standing up.

..is there anything to do with removing of glutinous...?

Saliva, I don't know.

Whether degluting ourselves is standing up...

What about you, Judith?

Degluting? Yeah, so gluteus maximus is your...

..muscles in your...

Wouldn't you need your muscles, though, to stand up?

But you're using different muscles.

I think we can eliminate Scratching, it doesn't sound attractive at all.

Yeah. So it's Swallowing or Standing up.

The sensible answer is Swallowing, isn't it? Gullet.

Cos standing up is a slightly eccentric, quirky answer.

Course, it could still be correct. Yeah, but I like the degluting.

Yeah... There is that "gluteus".

I think you need your "glutes" to stand up.

I think there's a problem with the sort of linguistic...

processes you would use to get to Standing Up.

Whereas they make more sense if you apply them to Swallowing.

I think it might be Swallowing.

OK. I have a slight preference for Swallowing, although...

..there is an attractive kind of argument for Standing up.

What about you, Beth? I would go on the Standing up.

Beth's on Standing up. So... And you, Dave?

..I would go Swallowing.

OK. Just on the...

It seems to slightly...

I think I'd go Swallowing.

Oh - I've been completely overruled again!

Beth, are you happy if we go for Swallowing? Of course I am.

Well... Yeah. We're struggling between

quite a nice, quirky answer,

and what looks like a more straightforward,

more boring answer.

But we're going to go for Swallowing.

Swallowing. So again, just a little bit of a tangle there.

If it is Swallowing, you've got the answer right, the contest is over.

The answer is Swallowing.

We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.

Ooh, they were in a tangle today!

They were. You could have caught them there.

Yes. Just one of those things.

It's the Boston answer.

Commiserations, Thoroughbreds, sorry to see you lose today,

the Eggheads have JUST about done their thing today,

they do reign supreme over quiz land still.

It means you won't be going home with the ?3,000 so the money rolls

over to our next show.

Eggheads, well done.

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

to defeat the Eggheads. There's going to be ?4,000 to play for.

They are building up a run, aren't they?

Until next time - goodbye.

'From the heights of the Scottish Highlands