Episode 60 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.

Now, before we go on with the quiz,

you're watching at home and you are wanting a question -

Pat's got one for you.

Also known as Botus, B-O-T-U-S,

who is Marlon Bundo?

OK, we will find out the answer to that at the end of the show.

Challenging our resident quiz champions today

are The Cold Ashby Bandits from Northamptonshire.

Now, this team are all members of Cold Ashby Golf Club,

where they tee off together three times a week.

Let's meet them.

Hello, I'm Graham and I'm a retired college principal.

Hi, my name is Tony.

I'm a retired caravan salesman.

Hi, I'm Cliff, I'm an ex-Royal Naval artificer.

Hello, I'm Brian and I'm a retired independent financial adviser.

Hi, I'm Keith, I'm a retired company director.

So, Graham and team, hello.

-ALL:

-Hi.

-Welcome - and, Graham,

it's basically golfers we've got here, is it?

I think that's what we're most proud of, yeah.

We play together three times a week in Cold Ashby Golf Club,

and that's where we met and that's where we continue to meet,

socialise and beat the living daylights out of each other

on the golf course, basically.

So, Cold Ashby is a small village but with a nice big golf club?

It's got a lovely, friendly, family-run golf club,

lots of hills, very pretty scenery,

and it's much bigger than the village that it serves.

How wonderful, that sounds ideal.

Do you manage to include some quizzing in your socialising?

-Never, no.

-No quizzing at all?

This is our very first communal quiz.

OK! Well, you can catch them cold, then.

Good luck, Challengers.

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

but if the Challengers fail to win,

the prize money rolls over to our next show.

Now, Cold Ashby Bandits,

the Eggheads have won the last seven games,

and you need to take them down a peg or two.

£8,000 is here for you to win if you do it.

-Would you like to try?

-We would.

-Very much so, yeah, yeah!

-OK, teeing off.

So, the first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Film & TV,

and it's one of you, please,

-against either Dave, Beth, Barry, Pat or Chris.

-Film & TV...

You were going to do the Film & TV.

-Pick up the bits.

-Really?

-Yeah.

-Oh, all right.

This is the real dregs, coming first!

I think it's you, Cliff, I'm sorry.

-Have you got the mint sauce?

-OK, Cliff...

-That's me.

-Very good.

Against which Egghead, Cliff?

This is the tricky bit.

They all look very daunting,

but Dave's looking kind, I'll have a go.

OK, Cliff from the Cold Ashby Bandits

to play Tremendous Knowledge Dave,

as he is known, from the Eggheads. Film & TV, the subject -

and please, for the first time, go to our legendary Question Room.

So, Cliff, you are a retired ex-Navy artificer.

-Long time ago.

-I suppose I should ask what a...

Actually, Chris will know. What is an artificer, Chris?

ERA, engine room artificer.

Basically a ship's engineer.

Ship's engineer, Cliff?

Well, there are different types of artificer.

I was ordnance, so that was maintenance on the weapons, sonar,

all that sort of thing - but you also had engine room artificers,

shipwright artificers, like Tony,

-and then electrical.

-Brilliant.

OK, good luck trying to torpedo Dave, here.

-Well, we'll do our best.

-Good stuff.

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

Definitely I think I'll go first, get it over with.

The nerves are jangling a bit.

OK, don't worry about the nerves.

Just focus here and enjoy it.

Here we go, Cliff.

In which film did Jodie Foster play the role of Clarice Starling?

I would imagine... I imagine she has been in all of those, but...

..I think I'll go for Silence Of The Lambs.

You're absolutely right, well done.

Silence of the Lambs, unforgettable.

Yeah, with Anthony Hopkins.

All right, Dave, Daniel Radcliffe starred

in how many Harry Potter films?

-Oh, no!

-Your favourite subject!

Right. Oh, dear, this is a bad one.

I think there are seven books,

and I think one of them got segmented into two films, so...

I'm going to go eight, please.

Eight is right, Dave, well done.

You're going to have to read one one day, you know.

Try me!

Or maybe even just to see a film, we'll get you in a cinema.

I've seen the films, and gave up after the first two.

OK, Cliff, who plays the role of Paul Pennyfeather

in the 2017 TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Decline And Fall?

Ah...

None of these spring out at me.

I would go down the middle, but I did that last time.

I'll try David Walliams.

No, it's Jack Whitehall.

I should have gone down the middle!

Yeah - known for his comedy.

OK, Dave, to take the lead,

in which film does Robert De Niro famously say,

"I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me?"

I don't think it's Analyze This,

I don't think it's The King Of Comedy.

I'm sure that...

..Ben Stiller's character is Greg,

so I think the answer's Meet The Parents,

from what I can recall.

Quite right, well done -

and he's gone into the lead here, Cliff.

You're in a bunker, but you can get out.

You haven't seen me play, have you?

We're going to see you play now.

Who's the director of Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy films?

If I had seen the film, I may have some idea,

but I haven't seen the film, so it's going to be an out and out guess.

I can't even claim it's going to be an educated guess,

just a wild guess -

and we'll go for James Gunn.

James Gunn is the right answer.

-Yippee.

-Well done, that was cunning.

And is JJ Abrams Game of Thrones, or is that my imagination?

-Star Wars.

-Your imagination, yeah.

So, who is the Game Of Thrones writer?

George RR Martin.

That's it, yeah, that's what threw me.

George RR Martin.

Maybe you should be Tremendous Knowledge DD Dave.

Don't think so.

-Here's your question.

-I've not taken to that one.

Here's your question to take the round.

Which British actor plays the role of the Beast

in the 2017 film version of Beauty and the Beast?

I've not seen... Not...seen the film at all.

Could be any of them.

Simply because they're older, I would go Jude Law.

I'm going to go to Jude Law.

Interesting - you got it wrong.

-Yeah.

-Dan Stevens.

So, that's good, Cliff.

Three questions each, the scores are level, we go to Sudden Death.

Gets a bit harder, I don't give you alternative options.

Here's your question. Which TV panel show broadcast since 2008

has featured Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby

as team captains and Keith Lemon as the host?

Oh, you've got me.

No, I really don't know the answer to that. Um...

Sound a real wimp here, don't I?

No, I give up.

Giving up? OK, Challengers, do you know this?

-We can only guess...

-Never Mind The Buzzcocks?

-The Buzzcocks one.

-Never mind...

No, it's not the Buzzcocks - Celebrity Juice.

Never heard of it.

-Never heard of it.

-Maybe not on your...

-..on your list of must-watch.

-No, no.

Dave, you can take the round with this.

Which Oscar-nominated actress

who appeared in the 1952 film Singing In The Rain

was the mother of Carrie Fisher?

Yeah, because they died within a few days of each other.

It's Debbie Reynolds.

-Cliff, you'll know this one.

-I knew that one.

Yeah, I knew you did. Debbie Reynolds is the right answer.

You've taken the round, Dave, and you're in the final.

Sorry, Cliff, knocked out. Good performance, though.

Come back to us and we'll see if the Challengers can knock out

an Egghead in the next round.

So, as it stands, the Cold Ashby Bandits

have lost a brain from the final round -

but no cause for panic just yet.

The Eggheads have not lost any, they are on this great run,

and you've got to stop it, gentlemen.

The next subject is Science.

So, where's the golfing scientist?

-Are you all looking at me?

-You were the volunteer.

-I think I'm going to have to insist, I'm afraid.

-All right.

-Is it Keith?

-I think it is Keith. Yeah.

OK, Keith is our scientist today -

and against which Egghead?

Can't, obviously, be Dave.

They're all pretty good, aren't they?

Yeah. I'd... I'd try Beth, I would.

No, I think she's very good at Science.

-Shows what I know, then.

-Yeah!

Who made him captain?!

Come on. Make your mind up.

-You pick one.

-Chris.

They all look horrible, so...

Eenie, meenie, minie, mo - I'll try Beth.

OK, so, Keith from the Cold Ashby Bandits

and Beth, our scientist, really.

-I think you are proper...

-A proper...

-A proper microbiologist.

Yeah, she knows about stuff.

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

So, Keith, you are a golfer and, for the purposes of today's game,

-a scientist as well.

-Well, I try to be.

What, a golfer or a scientist?

-Both.

-Oh, really? So, what's your science background?

-Chemistry.

-Lovely.

Was that A-Level or beyond?

-University?

-Degree level, yes.

Brilliant, so, you were working on what kind of thing

-when you're a student?

-I don't think I can remember that far back!

Have you got a bit of the periodic table in there?

Bit of the periodic table, of course, yes.

-Lovely. That comes up a lot, Beth, doesn't it?

-It does, yeah.

-Yeah.

-How many elements are there in the periodic table?

-About 60 or...?

-I think we've got to 118, actually.

-Wow.

-Yeah.

-OK, so, Keith, good luck here, and it's Science.

Would you like to go first or second?

I'll go first, please, Jeremy.

Here we go. What is, Keith, an angiosperm?

I don't really know the answer to this, I'm afraid,

but I think I'll go for a type of shark.

We have sperm whales.

-Yeah.

-It's not a type of shark, though, it's a flowering plant.

I know that's not covered by chemistry, your subject.

Here we go, Beth. In computing technology,

what is the more common name for the integrated circuit?

Integrated circuit...

That's probably something that's...

..there all the time.

-The motherboard.

-No.

-Oh...

Do you know, I was thinking motherboard

before the options came up, but...

-It's not, is it?

-No, it's wrong.

-Oh.

-Eggheads?

-Microchip.

-Microchip.

-Oh!

-OK, so, that's handy.

Keith, rub of the green.

Do we say that in golf or not?

Yes, occasionally.

You've got the rub of the green. OK, here is your second question.

Which of these animals, Keith, is a type of bat?

Now, then, again, not chemistry,

but I'm pretty sure it's not a pademelon.

Pipistrelle.

Pipistrelle is the right answer.

-How did you do that?

-We did have some bats in our...

..loft on one occasion...

-OK.

-..and the bat man came and told us they were pipistrelle, so...

Well, that's brilliant!

-There you go.

-The bat man.

Did he come in a sort of very, very open top car with...?

-Batman. Batman...

-Nice Batman wings on him, yeah!

OK! How handy, he has had an experience with a pipistrelle.

Beth, to catch up, what type of substance is adrenaline?

It's... It's not a blood cell.

Pheromones are things that we exude but we don't really realise it,

but adrenaline is a hormone.

Hormone is right. You're level.

And we go back to you for your third question, Keith.

The Milky Way, the galaxy in which solar system is located,

is classified as which of the following, Keith?

Well, I think I would eliminate lenticular,

on the basis that...

..it's more like the shape of an ellipse,

so I would go for elliptical galaxy.

Elliptical - but I just saw Graham just draw it.

What did you do on the desk just then, Graham?

-You drew the shape of a...

-I drew a spiral.

-Give me your hand... Yeah.

-More or less that sort of thing, I hope...

It's a kind of spiral, that's what Graham was drawing.

Spiral galaxy is the answer.

OK, Beth, for the round,

the Copley Medal is the oldest award

given by which prestigious organisation?

I expect it's extremely prestigious,

and there will be loads of the scientists that I've heard of

that have won this medal. Um...

Let's go with the Royal Society of London.

Any Eggheads know? Barry?

-It is indeed.

-What's it for, then, it's just a thing?

I think it's just for extraordinary achievements in the sciences.

The Copley Medal is indeed given by the Royal Society of London, Beth.

Well done. Sorry, Keith.

Knocked out, there, by our Egghead.

Not in the final round.

Come back to us, we'll play round three.

So, as it stands, the Cold Ashby Bandits have lost two

from the final round. In the bunker, slightly, these golfers.

The Eggheads are still just teeing off, confidently.

The next subject is Arts & Books,

so this is the moment to take them down.

Who would like this?

Take your pick, lads.

One of you against one of them.

It's got to be Graham, hasn't it, for Art & Books?

It's not for me, I'm sorry.

Well...

Absolutely useless.

-I'll go again!

-Well, you can't.

-No...

You want me to go sacrificial?

I think you'll have to do it. If you still want me to stay

-here, you'll have to do it.

-Yeah.

All right, I'll do it.

OK, Tony - against which Egghead?

And it's one of the three on the right, Tony, so Barry, Pat or Chris.

Take Chris.

-Chris?

-Yeah.

Can I take Chris, please?

You can indeed.

Tony from the Cold Ashby Bandits to take on Chris

on Arts & Books. You love your Arts & Books.

-Well, I like representational art, shall I say?

-Yeah.

-What, photography?

-Well, no, but representational art.

A picture I can look at and say, "Ah, that is so-and-so."

Like a picture of a train, or...

Well, there is the Guild of Railway Artists,

-and some of those are extremely good.

-Let's see what comes up.

Please go to the Question Room now.

So, Tony, you and Cliff knew each other from the Navy?

Yes, that's where we first met in...

..1955, when we joined the Navy together.

Terrific - and you were an artificer as well?

Yes, that's correct.

Doing the equipment, checking on stuff?

Well, I was a shipwright artificer,

which entails a variety of subjects -

boat-building, plumbing, the actual structure of the ship itself...

..was my responsibility.

So, you were going around with a lot of tools, and tightening things?

Yeah, yeah, sums it up.

And then went on to sell caravans, which is, you know,

similarly mechanical, I guess?

Well, yes. Yes - I sort of drifted into it

in the early days after the Navy and spent the rest of my career there.

And you met Cliff because he bought a caravan from you?

Yeah, that's correct. One day, he just wandered onto the site

and I thought, "I know that face,"

and that would have been 40 years since we'd seen each other.

-Quite... Quite exciting.

-Oh, brilliant.

So, Arts & Books, Tony.

Would you like to go first or second?

I'll go second, please.

Here we go. Your question, Chris.

Who was poet laureate of the United Kingdom

for 42 years of Queen Victoria's reign?

Was this...?

That was Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

It was, the brilliant...

We were discussing him the other day, weren't we,

-saying how brilliant he was?

-Yep.

-Alfred, Lord Tennyson is right.

OK, Tony.

Georges Simenon, born in Belgium in 1903,

is best known for creating which fictional detective?

Can you spell his name, please?

Yes, Georges is George with an S on the end,

and then Simenon is S-I-M-E-N-O-N.

Well, it's not Sam Spade.

Between the other two, it'll be Jules Maigret.

-Yeah - because Poirot, of course, is Agatha Christie.

-Yeah.

Jules Maigret is correct.

Chris, who wrote the 1922 story

The Diamond As Big As The Ritz?

Er, not George Orwell...

Doesn't sound like Hemingway,

but it does sound like F Scott Fitzgerald,

so F Scott Fitzgerald.

It is F Scott Fitzgerald.

OK, Tony, which of these Scottish writers

died at his home in Samoa in 1894?

Oh... This is tricky.

I'll go Robert Louis Stevenson.

Nicely done, you're correct.

Robert Louis Stevenson is right.

Well done, Tony. Two each.

Chris, third question.

Prisoners, or as it is also known, Slaves,

is a series of seemingly unfinished sculptures by which artist?

Well, Botticelli and Caravaggio were both painters,

they didn't sculpt,

but Michelangelo was a complete Renaissance man and he sculpted,

so it's got to be by Michelangelo.

That's exactly right. Michelangelo is right.

OK, you need this one to stay in, Tony.

Rev up the caravan.

What does Shakespeare describe in As You Like It

as being, "Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything"?

Not a big Shakespeare lover.

I think I'll go the whining schoolboy.

-Oh...

-Let's see what your team-mates think of this.

-Team-mates?

-Second childishness.

Second childishness.

Think he's talking about old age here, is he?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Which we know about.

Second childishness is the answer.

Well done, Chris.

Taken out a Challenger, and three to the Eggheads now.

One more round to play before the final.

Come back to us, gentlemen, we'll play it.

Graham, we've lost three.

Golfing equivalent - it's a double bunker?

Well, it's a triple bunker, I think, at the moment.

Yeah, we're well off the fairway, into the rough,

and we're going to have to hack out a bit.

And what club would you use for that?

Whatever first comes to hand, I think, in this case.

-A number 9?

-A number 9 would do fine.

Yeah, and just whack them with it.

If the opportunity arises.

We need your caddies to come in now with the weapons.

-And fast!

-Believe me, though, many have won from this position.

No cause for any sort of defeatism at all.

Cold Ashby brains have lost three brains from the final round.

The Eggheads are still sitting there,

and they're on this roll, and we've got to stop it.

So, the next subject for you is Politics.

Who would like Politics?

-Is it Brian?

-It looks as if it has to be Brian.

-Yeah, it's got to be Brian.

-You're it.

-You're the only one.

-Go on.

OK, Brian, our retired independent financial adviser -

and who would you like to give some financial advice to here?

It's either Pat or Barry, so the two heavyweights.

-It's not easy.

-Oh...

-Go for Barry.

-Good stuff.

Brian from the Cold Ashby Bandits taking on Barry from the Eggheads

in our last head-to-head.

Please go to the Question Room.

So, Barry against Brian.

Brian, you can choose whether you go first or second.

I'll go second, please.

Here we go, Barry.

What name is given to a general vote by the electorate

on a single political question?

Barry, is it...?

Oh, that is most certainly referendum.

Referendum is the right answer.

Brian, your question.

The devolved legislature of which country

is often referred to as Stormont?

I'm pretty confident that's Northern Ireland.

It is indeed - with the enormous driveway, yeah.

Northern Ireland.

Barry, who led the so-called national government

following the 1931 general election?

Oh, let me think, now. It wasn't Winston Churchill.

Stanley Baldwin was Prime Minister on a number of occasions.

Ramsay MacDonald was Prime Minister before, I think, in 1924...

..and I know Baldwin was Prime Minister in 1936,

at the abdication crisis.

I think it was Ramsay MacDonald still.

Ramsay MacDonald is quite right.

Well done.

Brian, who became MP for West Bromwich East in 2001

and became a leading name in the campaign against phone hacking?

I think I would go for Tom Watson.

Yes, indeed, and then also Labour's deputy leader, as well.

Tom Watson is right.

Barry, your question.

Who was the unsuccessful Conservative candidate

for the constituency of Dartford

in the general elections of 1950 and '51?

James Callaghan was an MP for Cardiff for most of his life,

so I don't think it was him.

I'm pretty certain, however, that this was Margaret Thatcher.

Margaret Thatcher is correct.

Callaghan was Labour, of course.

OK, so, Barry has got three.

You need to get this one, Brian.

In the UK Parliament,

what is the name of the provision in a bill that gives it an expiry date

when it is felt that Parliament should have the chance to decide

on its merits again after a fixed period?

I would... Looking at the choice, I think would go for dawn clause.

No, because it's an expiry date, so it's a sunset clause.

Sorry, Brian, beaten by Barry -

and the Eggheads have won all their rounds,

but the Challengers can still win.

We're going to play the final next, for £8,000.

And 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

are not allowed to take part in this round,

so, all from the Challengers' side,

I am afraid that Tony, Cliff, Brian and Keith

from the Cold Ashby Bandits,

would you please leave the studio?

All right, Graham, good luck.

You're playing to win the Cold Ashby Bandits £8,000.

-Thank you.

-Dave, Beth, Barry, Pat, Chris,

you are playing for something that is, I think, priceless,

which is your own reputation.

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

They're all general knowledge.

Normally I say, "You can confer,"

but your team-mates are all stranded back there,

so you're on your own, Graham -

and the question is, can you, playing solo,

defeat these five over here in a famous victory?

-I'm sure you can.

-I'll do what I can.

Good stuff. Confidence is key.

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

I'm going to go first.

Good luck.

In which month of the year does Inauguration Day

for US presidents typically fall?

Well, I know it's not March.

It's either January or February -

and I know the election is in November, and I have...

..a strong feeling, but not an absolute certainty,

that it's the end of January.

January is the right answer, well done.

Eggheads, in the Shakespeare play The Tempest,

to which character is Prospero referring

when he says, "This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine"?

-Caliban.

-Caliban.

-Sounds like Caliban.

-Sounds like Caliban.

-Yeah - it won't be Ariel, will it?

-Thing of darkness, yeah...

Miranda's his daughter and

Ariel is a sprite type of thing.

We think that's Caliban.

It is Caliban, well done.

Graham, back to you, second question.

What is the official name of the organisation

often referred to as MI6?

Well, I think it's the SIS,

and I think it's the Secret Intelligence Service.

It is indeed Secret Intelligence Service,

well done. Eggheads, to catch up,

Salome is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss

based on a play of the same name written by which Irish playwright?

-Wilde, isn't it?

-Oscar Wilde?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley.

It's Oscar Wilde.

That's Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde is the right answer, well done.

So, two each. Graham, back to you.

The African capital city Niamey lies on the banks of which river?

So, Niamey is spelt N-I-A-M-E-Y.

I only have a vague idea about this.

It's getting vaguer by the second, I have to say!

But I do think it's the Congo.

OK, Congo. Let's check with the Eggheads,

because Niamey is not a familiar name at all.

It's the capital of Niger.

It's the capital of Niger?

-So, do we then go to the Niger River or...?

-Yeah.

So, it's the capital of Niger and the river is Niger.

Graham, you got it wrong. So,

the Eggheads can take the contest with this question.

Which of these Alfred Hitchcock films was released first?

I think it's Dial M for Murder.

I think it's '56, Dial M for Murder.

Psycho was 1960 and I think The Birds is '63.

So, I think it's...

Dial M for Murder is definitely the '50s.

The '50s, Dial M for Murder, yeah.

Because that is before Grace Kelly got married to Prince Rainier,

and then she retired, didn't she, from all acting?

So, the other two are definitely in the '60s.

-OK.

-So, Dial M for Murder.

We think that's Dial M for Murder.

Dial M for Murder is your answer.

If you've got this right, the contest is over.

-Do you think they got it right?

-I'm sure they're right.

I'm sure they're right, too. The answer is Dial M for Murder.

We say congratulations, Eggheads, you have won.

And you were pretty much bang on with your dates, Dave,

-except Dial M for Murder is '54, by the way.

-OK.

There we go. Commiserations, Graham, really hard on your own.

Bad luck to the golfers, here, the Cold Ashby Bandits.

A good game of golf will get it out of your system!

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them.

This winning streak of yours continues, Eggs.

It does mean the Challengers don't go with the £8,000.

We roll the money over to our next show.

Eggheads, are you going to get to a jackpot of 10,000?

It is looking like it, isn't it? Can they be stopped?

Oh, we mustn't forget Pat's question.

Also known as Botus, who is Marlon Bundo?

So, B-O-T-U-S makes me think of Potus,

makes me think of "something of the United States", but I don't know.

You're on the right track. He's a rabbit.

He is the family pet belonging to US Vice President Mike Pence,

and he has jokingly been given the Botus name

when travelling with the family.

And what does Botus then stand for?

-Bunny of the United States.

-Bunny of the United States!

Now we know. Great question.

Thank you, Pat. Join us next time

to see if a new team of Challengers

have the brains to take them down. £9,000 says they can't do it.

Till then, goodbye.