Episode 18 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.

Here they are, the Eggheads.

-You feeling revved up and ready to go?

-Oh, yes.

-Yes.

-Yes.

Good. Excellent.

A lot of enthusiasm on this side.

Well, taking on the might of our quiz Goliaths today

are the Cheeky Chaps from South Yorkshire.

Now, this team work together in different departments

at the local supermarket in Chapeltown. Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Richard, and I'm a produce assistant.

Hi, I'm Nick and I'm a warehouse operative.

Hi, I'm Derek. I'm a home shopping driver.

Hi, I'm Stephen, I'm a produce section leader.

Hello, I'm Ryan and I'm a frozen colleague.

-So Richard and team, hello. ALL:

-Hello.

-Welcome.

All connected through a supermarket?

Yes, indeed. We all work at the Chapeltown store

-just to the north of Sheffield.

-So what's happening today?

Is it closed?

"Sorry, out to quiz."

We've all arranged some time off, yes. We've escaped for the day.

Tell us about your quizzing. Do you quiz together or separate?

Well, we've never quizzed together but myself and my wife

go to a local pub sometimes for a quiz

and I think the rest of the guys do something similar.

OK. Do you win the quiz, then?

Shall we skip over that?

By all means. Any one watch the show?

Anyone feel a bit excited to see these five here?

Very much so, yes. Watch it regularly so it's great to see

-all the guys here today.

-I gather they are quite legendary

in quiz world, these Eggs.

-Very much so. Yeah.

-And I guess a few of your customers in the supermarkets will know them as well.

So they will doubtless be watching and thinking, "Oh, right,

"he's the guy who served me last week." Is that right?

I would hope so, yes.

Good luck here. Every day there is £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs

for our challengers.

However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads the prize money

rolls over to the next show. So, Cheeky Chaps, the Eggheads have won

the last three games.

They're just getting into their stride again.

It means there's a handy jackpot today of £4,000.

-Would you like to try and win it?

-Yes, please.

-Excellent.

The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Sport.

Richard, any of you against either Judith, Steve, Pat, Dave or Lisa.

OK. Well, I think Derek, that's you, isn't it?

-Yes.

-OK, our home shopping driver from the Cheeky Chaps.

Who would you like to take on?

-What do you think? Go for it.

-Lisa, please.

All right. Good stuff. So, Derek from the Cheeky Chaps.

-And, Derek, you deliver the stuff around the place?

-I certainly do.

-Brilliant. Against Lisa, who is about to deliver herself.

-Yes!

Hopefully not today.

-Fingers crossed.

-Please go to our legendarily Question Room.

So, Derek, you drive food around when it has been ordered online?

-Is that right?

-Yes, that's correct.

So, it's a combination of the 21st century and the 20th, I guess.

It is. It is.

-Is that fun to do?

-It's nice to take shopping, especially to the elderly.

-Yeah. So it's quite an important job, really.

-It is, yeah.

And when you're driving around do you have Led Zeppelin on in

-your cab?

-No, it's a bit noisy, Led Zeppelin.

I might have Andrea Bocelli or something like that on.

Because I know you've got a very eclectic music taste.

-Oh, yeah.

-And what about sport, is that a good subject for you?

Yes. Sheffield Wednesday supporter.

-The Owls.

-OK, well, the gauntlet is therefore thrown down.

Derek, your choice on sport.

Do you want to go first or second?

Second, please.

So, Lisa goes first, and here is your question, Lisa.

What technique do swimmers regularly employ

to change direction at the end of the pool?

Oh. I was expecting tumble turn.

That's bad.

I don't think it's a flip turn.

Today is going well so far. Erm...

I'll try sling turn.

Flip turn is the answer I wanted.

That's all right. At least I'd ruled that out first.

All right. Shall we just stop the contest here, Derek?

-It's going so well.

-I'd like you to.

-Yeah, you're in the lead.

Here's your first question.

At which football club did Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton

form a strike partnership nicknamed the SAS in the 1990s?

It's not Man United, and I don't believe it is Liverpool either.

They had the one good year at Blackburn. It's Blackburn Rovers.

Blackburn Rovers is quite right. Well done. You're ahead.

Back to you, Lisa. Which tennis player did Ivan Lendl once describe

as a haircut and a forehand?

Oh. These options are fun today, aren't they?

Cos they're all famed for both, really.

But the most outrageous haircut and forehand on display

there would probably belong to Andre Agassi.

And you're right. Well done. Andre Agassi. Didn't always have the

-haircut, did he?

-Well, he didn't actually have any hair,

it was a wig for a long time, those flowing blond locks.

OK. Back to you, Derek.

The Los Angeles Angels is a major team in which sport?

Los Angeles Angels.

Erm... Gut feeling, I don't know.

I'll have to think on this one.

I don't think it's American football.

I'm going to have to make a punt, I think, for baseball.

Baseball is your answer. Let me just check with Richard,

because you love American sport.

Yes, especially American football, which I know it's not.

Right, so he's right about that... Do you know the answer?

Stephen is well into his basketball and he knows

it's not that, so we're thinking it must be baseball.

That's handy, Derek. We've ruled out football and basketball.

You're quite right. Baseball is correct.

Two out of two.

Oh, Lisa. If you get this wrong, you're out.

-Oh, yes.

-Which golfer was crowned European tour's Race To Dubai winner

in 2016?

I can't remember.

Oh, no.

Stenson had a very good 2016.

But McIlroy keeps coming back in the frame for me.

Ooh!

I really don't think I can make a case for Westwood.

I'm going to have to go with the instinct, and say Rory McIlroy.

-Dave?

-I would have gone Henrik Stenson, because he won The Open

that year, and was pretty consistent later on.

-So Stenson for me, I would have gone.

-Dave would have gone Stenson.

Stenson would have been the right answer.

-Ah!

-You got one right out of three.

So, there we are, Derek, you're through to the final.

-How about that?

-Brilliant!

The Cheeky Chaps have started very well. Excellent.

You're a delivery driver, and you've delivered an early victory.

Come back to us, and we'll play round two.

So, as it stands, the Cheeky Chaps have started really well.

-Great stuff, Derek.

-Thank you.

All still there, and the Eggheads have had one round

and one loss. What's going to happen?

We've got Science for you now.

So who wants this, skipper?

I'm afraid that's going to be me, Jeremy.

OK, Nick, against which Egghead? Obviously it can't be Lisa.

Who looks as if they're clueless on Science?

No-one.

-Dave?

-Yeah, we're going to have to take Dave.

Try Dave? Very good.

So Nick from the Cheeky Chaps versus Dave on Science from the Eggheads.

Please take your positions.

Nick, I wish I had Chris here for you, because trains is your passion.

-It certainly is.

-And tell us, what sort of trains and all that.

I've got several indoor train sets and a garden railway.

-A garden railway?

-A garden railway, yes.

-Is that undercover or just...?

-No, it just runs outside.

Lovely, so you switch it on and it goes round the garden.

-It certainly does.

-OK. So you're on Science, Nick.

Would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, please.

Here is your question.

Good luck. The young of which of these creatures is most likely

to undergo a process called quilling?

Ah.

I think I'm going to have to purely guess at this one,

and it's going to be hedgehog.

Because of just of the word quilling.

Yeah, perfect logic, well done.

Hedgehog is right, Nick. Good stuff.

Dave, we go to you. Which year was Albert Einstein awarded

the Nobel Prize for Physics?

Well, 1881 predates the Nobel Prizes.

1961 seems too late.

I'll go 1921, please.

Yes, 1921, when presumably he was in Germany, still.

Yeah. I would have thought so.

OK, we go back to you, Nick.

Blepharoplasty is a cosmetic surgery procedure usually performed

on which part of the body? Blepharoplasty.

It's spelt, Nick, BLEPHAROPLASTY.

Again, it's going to have to be a guess, I'm afraid.

I can't imagine it associated with the ears.

I'm going to say eyelids.

Eyelids is correct.

All right, to catch up, Dave, your question.

Ursus arctos middendorffi is the scientific name for which variety

of brown bear, found on an island off the coast of Alaska?

I've got to go Kodiak bear because of the Alaska bit,

but I'm not sure at all.

But I'll go Kodiak bear, please.

Because Kodiak is in Alaska, is it?

Well, it's not far from it, I wouldn't have thought, so, yeah.

Kodiak is the right answer. Kodiak bear.

He's playing well, Nick, isn't he? But so are you.

-Thank you.

-Your third question.

Which creatures belong to the order of insects called anisoptera?

Er, I think I'm going to go with dragonflies.

I'm sure worms would be something segmented so, yeah, dragonflies.

Just brilliant play. Dragonflies is right.

-Well done.

-Three out of three.

-These Challengers have not put a foot wrong so far.

-No, they haven't.

Dave, to stay in.

What term is used in quantum physics to mean the intrinsic angular

momentum of a subatomic particle?

We're having problems with twist today, aren't we? Erm...

Angular momentum.

I'm going to go spin.

But I haven't got a clue, really.

-Steve, do you know this?

-I don't know it,

but the word I associate with quantum physics is spin,

-so that's what I would have gone for.

-Steve likes spin.

It is spin. Well done, Dave.

Three out of three for you as well.

So, scores level, we go to Sudden Death, Nick.

Get a little bit harder - I don't give you different options.

It's not multiple-choice. Here we go.

Hydrolysis is the name given to the chemical process by which a

compound reacts with what substance to break down into other compounds?

Purely from the word hydro, I'm going to go with water.

Water is quite right.

Dave, what is the full name of the trigonometry function that is often

shortened to TAN on a pocket calculator?

Or tan, capital letters.

-Tangent.

-Tangent is right.

Nick, back to you. Excluding dwarf planets, how many

of the planets in our solar system are smaller in diameter than Earth?

-Three.

-Three is right.

-Mercury, Mars, Venus.

-Well done, mate.

Dave, to stay in.

Bleeding canker is a disease that particularly affects which

non-native British tree?

I always associated canker with oak,

but I thought that was native.

So I'm in trouble here.

I'm still going to have to go with what in my mind.

I just cannot get oak out of my mind, so oak is the answer.

The Latin name for the correct answer is Aesculus hippocastanum.

-Otherwise known as, Judith?

-Horse chestnut.

Horse chestnut. Or conker, I could have accepted.

Oh, right, yes. Good.

-Dave, you're out.

-Yes.

Well done, Challengers. Another scalp.

Nick, you are in the final round.

This is getting very lively, isn't it, Eggheads?

-We're a little bit asleep, I think.

-Too lively.

Are they going to be taken down?

Nick and Dave, please come back and rejoin your teams.

Well, what a game we have got today.

The Cheeky Chaps are playing really well, keep that strategy secret,

Richard, OK? Whatever it is you're doing, it's working.

So they've won two rounds now, the Eggheads have had,

I don't know what the supermarket equivalent is, they've had two...

-Two broken Eggs.

-Reduced to clear.

Two broken Eggs sent back to the store. Exactly.

Unidentified losers in the bagging area.

The next subject is Film & TV.

-Who wants this?

-I think that's me.

-That would be me.

-OK, Richard.

Very good. Produce assistant, against which Egghead?

You can have Pat, Steve or Judith, all on the right here.

-I'd very much like to play Judith, please.

-Brilliant.

OK, Richard from the Cheeky Chaps trying to make it three in a row

for the Challengers, taking on Judith from the Eggheads.

To ensure there's no conferring,

please take your positions in the Question Room.

So, here we are. Richard, your team is playing really well.

Film & TV. Would you like to go first or second against Judith?

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

And here's your first question.

Good luck. In which country was the actress Toni Collette born?

And Toni is T-O-N-I.

Toni Collette.

Off the bat, I haven't really got much clue.

From the sound of the name, it could feasibly be...

She could be French or Canadian.

As I say, not much idea. I'll go for France, please.

I suppose I should have done an Australian accent.

-IN AUSTRALIAN ACCENT: Toni Collette.

-Ah.

-Australia is the answer.

Wow, that is the first wrong answer from the Challengers,

and we must be halfway through here. Amazing.

OK, Australia is the answer.

Judith, who played the fictional detective Jules Negri

in two TV movies in 2016?

Oh, yes. I remember the telly series ages ago.

Curiously enough, I think it was Rowan Atkinson.

Curiously enough, it was Rowan Atkinson.

It seems such funny casting, that's all.

Well, I think he decided to go straight.

Yeah.

OK. She's got one.

She's ahead, Richard. Come back with this.

Hit And Miss, composed by John Barry, was the theme tune

to which musical panel show, first broadcast in 1959?

OK. I think I've got a vague inkling with this one.

I think it's referring to hits musically,

so that's leading me down to Juke Box Jury.

Yeah, absolutely right. The date leads to that as well.

Juke Box Jury is right.

Well done. So, level with Judith.

Here's your question. In the 2016 version of the Jungle Book, Judith,

which British actor provides the voice of Bagheera, the panther?

2016 version.

I've been meaning to watch it.

I think it's Ben Kingsley.

-Nicely done, it is.

-Phew!

Ben Kingsley is right.

-I'll bet it's good as well.

-Well, it had very, very good reviews.

-Did it?

-Yeah.

-OK, Judith is ahead.

You need to get this one right, Richard.

Who played the part of Gustavo Fring in the TV series Breaking Bad?

Well, I did watch this series and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I'm drawn to Luis Guzman.

I think I'll go with that. Luis Guzman, please.

It's wrong. No, it's not Luis Guzman.

It's Giancarlo Esposito, Richard, sorry.

So, Judith has struck back for the Eggheads.

Judith, you will be in the final round.

No way back for our Challenger there.

Return to us, please. We've got one more round to play.

So, the Cheeky Chaps have now lost one brain from the final round.

The Eggheads have lost two, though.

The next subject for you is Geography.

Who would like this?

Oh, that's hard...

I'll do geography.

-Ryan or Stephen?

-It's going to be me, Jeremy.

OK. Good stuff. Against which Egghead?

It can be either Steve or Pat, so two of the guys.

Well, Derek went for Lisa, then Nick went for Dave,

and that pattern seems to have been a winning one,

so I think I'll have to go for Pat.

I see, take them from the left, they're weaker on the left.

Very, very interesting. Let's see if that's right.

So, Ryan from the Cheeky Chaps, who are playing so well,

taking on Pat from the Eggheads.

One more round before the final. Please take your positions.

Ryan, I saw you describe yourself as a frozen colleague when we started

the quiz, so I should ask you about that job description.

It basically means I fill the freezers.

OK. And you're stacking up the food and customers are coming in and...

I work nights, so it's...

Oh, do you work at nights? So, no customers at all?

-No.

-Is it fun?

It's OK, yeah. Nick works nearby.

Oh, I see. So you both can buddy up at night.

He's not far away from me.

-Have a laugh.

-Yeah.

-Is it a bit strange to be up in the daytime?

You get used to it. I've been doing it five years now.

But, yeah, it can be a bit weird.

It's bad in summer, it's bad in summer.

Yeah, because everyone is just having fun and you've got to get

some sleep. I guess you've got to sleep in the day.

-That's the key thing.

-That's it, yeah.

Which is not always easy if you're in a noisy street or whatever.

Oh, yeah. In summer when they're mowing grass and kids playing,

ice cream vans, you're just like, "No!"

Good luck in this round. Let's see if you can reduce the Eggheads

by one more. You're up against Pat.

Ryan, would you like to go first or second?

I think I'll go second, please.

So, Pat, your question. Which of these French cities lies on the

Mediterranean Sea?

Paris is quite a distance inland,

Bordeaux is on the Bay of Biscay,

so it's Marseille that's on the Mediterranean.

Marseille is indeed. Well done. First one to you.

OK, over to Ryan. After Shanghai, which is the largest city in China?

Well, I'd have thought Beijing would have been the biggest city in China.

It is the capital city, so I'm going to go with Beijing.

You're absolutely right, Ryan, well done. Beijing it is.

It's interesting, Shanghai is obviously bigger.

OK, Pat. The Devon town of Barnstable lies on the north bank

of which river?

There are several Ouses.

But they're mostly on the eastern side of the country.

I'm not sure I've heard of more than one Severn,

other than the very big river that flows into the Bristol Channel.

The Taw is the most tempting of the three.

I think there's only one Severn, and I think the various Ouses

are elsewhere. So I'll go for the Taw.

Yes, the Taw is quite right. Two out of two. OK, Ryan, to catch up.

The Coachella Valley, home to a popular music Festival,

is in which US state?

It vaguely rings a bell.

Coachella. Music Festival.

Festivals and stuff, I was thinking California, but...

Oregon did jump out at me.

I'm going to go with Oregon.

-Oh, no.

-They did a little groan next to me here.

Eggheads, do you know the answer?

-California.

-California.

How do you know that? I've never heard of that.

There is an episode of The Simpsons where they're at Coachella Festival

and it were in California.

OK. An episode of The Simpsons, says Steve.

They've got that thing, Ryan, the quizzers,

where they've got little glimmers of Coachella in The Simpsons.

All in all, it's California. I'm so sorry.

So, Pat has the chance to take the round on his third question.

Pat, which British town was known to the Romans as Aquae Arnemetiae?

Well, they are all spa towns.

And a couple of them at least produce well-known mineral waters,

sparkling waters.

Aquae Arnemetiae.

It rings a sort of bell for Buxton, so I'll go for Buxton.

If you're right, you're in the final round, with three correct answers.

Buxton is right. Sorry, Ryan. Knocked out there.

Not to worry. Let's see how your team do.

Come back to us, we will play that final for £4,000.

So this is what we have been playing towards.

It is time for our final round.

As always, 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. And it's pretty evenly matched now.

Richard and Ryan from the Cheeky Chaps,

and Lisa and Dave from the Eggheads,

would you all please leave the studio?

All right, wish you all the best, Nick, Derek, Stephen.

You're playing to win the Cheeky Chaps £4,000 and for a huge cheer

at the supermarket as well. Pat, Steve and Judith,

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

the Eggheads' reputation.

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

This time, they are all General Knowledge.

You may confer, gentlemen.

So, the question is, can your three brains defeat these three?

After a brilliant tussle to this point.

And also, would you like to go first and second?

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

OK, Stephen and team, good luck.

Take your time. Here we go. According to the proverb,

where is it not advisable to change horses?

Has anybody heard this proverb?

-Tough one, isn't it?

-Midstream.

Just for the fact that, why would you change mid air?

-I'd say midstream.

-Yeah.

We'll go with midstream, please.

You're right. Well done. Midstream.

Eggheads, in which county is the royal residence of Sandringham?

-Norfolk?

-Norfolk.

Definitely. We're all agreed that's Norfolk, Jeremy.

You didn't even discuss it, really, did you?

The answer is Norfolk.

OK, your question.

Which American investor and philanthropist is nicknamed

the Sage of Omaha?

-Bill Gates would be California.

-Yeah.

I'd say Warren Buffett.

-Go for Warren Buffett.

-Go on.

-Yeah, we'll go for Warren Buffett, please.

Warren Buffett is the right answer.

He does a lot of investing, doesn't it?

And picks things to invest in long-term and does very well.

Eggheads, your question. Which of these London landmarks was designed

by Denys Lasdun?

-National Theatre.

-I think it's National Theatre.

Yeah. National Theatre. Hideous building.

Hideous building.

Well, apparently Judith doesn't like the architecture,

but we're all agreed it's the National Theatre.

I thought it was now regarded as a design triumph?

Well, that doesn't mean a thing.

No. National Theatre is the right answer.

OK. We need them to get one wrong, but don't worry,

as long as you're getting them right, that's fine.

Here's your third question. It can be crucial.

£4,000 we're playing for.

Which MP cancelled a scheduled appearance on the TV panel show

Have I Got News For You In 2016, and was replaced by a leather handbag?

I know who it was. Nicky Morgan.

Nicky Morgan. Yeah, I watched it, yeah.

We'll go with Nicky Morgan.

You're playing really well. You're absolutely right.

Really well played, Challengers.

Very, very good quizzers here.

OK, so three out of three. Eggheads under pressure.

If you get this wrong, they've won.

The word robot is derived from a term meaning forced labour

in which language?

-Czech?

-It's Czech.

-Karel Capek, yeah.

-It's from the play.

-RUR, isn't it?

Again, we're all agreed that's Czech, Jeremy.

You just blurt the answer out, don't deliberate, just say it.

Czech is correct.

Three each. We go to Sudden Death.

Everyone in the supermarket has stopped what they're doing,

the lines are frozen at the till, everyone is standing, staring,

open-mouthed, waiting for what happens.

Come on, guys, you can do this.

Sudden Death against the Eggheads, the legendry Eggheads.

£4,000 on the table for you.

A person born on April Fools' Day has what Zodiac star sign?

It's after Pisces. Pisces isn't until March 20-something.

Whatever comes after Pisces.

It's not Gemini, that's later.

Just say something. Libra.

We're not sure. But we're going to go with Libra.

Libra. OK.

Usually with three people, you find one of them knows about star signs.

I don't. Eggheads, what is it?

-Aries.

-Aries is the answer.

You look at horoscopes every day, don't you, Judith?

-I know you do.

-Absolutely never.

Today you will have great, great victory in your quiz.

All right. So, Sudden Death we are on,

and the Challengers have got one wrong.

Will it be terminal?

Let's see. Your question, Eggheads, for the contest.

The airfield at Biggin Hill in London was originally opened by the

Royal Flying Corps during which major conflict?

-World War I?

-Weren't they post World War I?

Royal Flying Corps was before the RAF, wasn't it?

-Yeah.

-And it became the RAF.

And that was World War I.

Right.

-Pat?

-Pat, what do you think?

What are our options, really? World War I, World War II.

It's got to be I or II, hasn't it, really?

Well, the RAF...

I mean, they didn't fly in the Boer War, which was the war before.

I just thought they came along at the end because we didn't really

have that many plane battles in World War I, did we?

Yes, they flew in World War I.

All held together with string, made of paper.

Lots of flying went on.

And that was the name for the RAF.

Yeah, pre-RAF, yeah.

If you're happy with World War I, that's what I'll say.

-World War I.

-World War I.

Consensus opinion, Jeremy, we're going to say World War I.

World War I is your answer. I see what you were doing there.

You were thinking it's only I or II,

but then when was the RAF and when was the Royal Flying Corps?

-Do you Challengers know?

-We're thinking World War I as well.

Yeah. The answer is World War I.

We say congratulations, Eggheads.

Well done, Judith. You have won.

The RAF were actually formed in April 1918.

So at the end of World War I?

Yeah, straight off the back of World War I.

So if it's pre-RAF, it has to be World War I.

-Yeah.

-So, there we go.

You played so well there.

And maybe not knowing star signs is actually something to be proud of.

You're too busy to look at horoscopes, for heaven's sake!

I hope you've enjoyed it.

-We did, thank you.

-Great to see you all and hear about your lives

and your work. Thank you so much for coming in.

Commiserations to our Challengers.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

It's starting to look a bit impressive, this run of victories.

They reign supreme over quiz land again.

And it does mean the Challengers don't go home with the £4,000.

We're going to roll that money over to our next show.

Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

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

to take them down. £5,000 will be here to play for.

Until then, have a great day.