Episode 63 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.

Feeling studious, Eggs?

-Always.

-Yeah. Looking wise.

Well before we go on with the quiz,

Chris, you have a teaser for people watching at home.

I do indeed, Jeremy, yes.

They disappeared from London in 1952.

From Leeds, in 1959, from Sheffield in 1960 and Glasgow in 1962.

-What were they?

-Brilliant, Chris, thank you.

Taking on the might of our quiz Goliaths today are the Palatimates.

Now this team all study at the University of Durham,

where two of them work for the student newspaper.

Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Reese and I'm a philosophy and politics student.

Hi I'm Craig and I am also a philosophy and politics student.

Hi, I'm Grace and I'm an anthropology student.

Hi, I'm Kyle and I'm a politics and International relations student.

Hi I'm Jonty, and I'm a biological sciences student.

So, Reese and team, hello.

-ALL:

-Hello.

-Great to see you from Durham, my old university.

I must say. And so are you on the student newspaper, Reese?

Yes. I am on the News section, I'm Deputy News Editor.

OK. Because I used to do it.

We had to type it all out manually and stuff.

You don't do that any more, do you?

-Computer.

-Complete blank expression.

-And are you enjoying Durham?

-Yes, it's been very good.

Second year now, going into my third next year.

Been a positive, good experience.

Good stuff. Now do you all quiz together?

Er, no. We've never quizzed together as a team,

but we do quiz individually.

And I think we all enjoy a bit of quizzing.

And you're students and you read and you learn and you know stuff, right?

-Hopefully.

-I think so.

The name, the team name Palatimates, why?

Yes, so, um, Durham, of course,

the colour of Durham is purple and it's called Palatinate.

And then the newspaper which you've worked for of course is called

Palatinate as well and us being all friends, mates,

-so we've put it together - Palatimates.

-Very good.

We wish you all the best, Palatimates.

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.

Palatimates, the good news is that the Eggheads are on a run

or a roll or something.

They've won the last ten so we're up into five figures now,

we've got £11,000 for you if you win.

OK. So it's been worth coming from Durham.

The first head-to-head battle is on the subject of Food & Drink.

So one of you, please,

against either Lisa, Steve, Barry, Kevin or Chris.

-You decide.

-Who wants to give it a go?

-I think...

-Do you want me to do it?

You could go. Do you want to?

I feel like that was where we were leading anyway so...

OK. So I think we'll go with Grace.

Grace on Food & Drink, OK.

Against, I'd say take on Kevin.

-OK.

-I think.

Chief strategist has spoken!

If you can get him, then, yeah.

-Kevin.

-Yeah, I can see you've worked out the rhythm of this game.

Kevin, you can't tell looking at him, but he is now panicking.

Grace from Palatimates taking on Kevin from the Eggheads.

And to ensure there's no conferring,

please take your positions in our legendary Question Room.

Well, good luck, Grace.

-Thank you.

-I gather you have something called gerphyrophobia?

Yeah, it's a phobia of bridges.

Which is a little unusual, but quite bad when I first got to Durham.

So I had to kind of be escorted

across all the bridges with my eyes closed. And...

Well, I was going to say, cos I know Durham so well,

you've got Prebends Bridge,

and you've got Kingsgate Bridge and you've got, what's the...

-Is it Framwellgate?

-Framwellgate, yeah.

Cos you're on a peninsula there.

-So how...

-Yeah.

-How do you get around?

Oh, it was quite difficult the first time,

getting into town, but it was just,

I mean my friends were really,

really good with it, and they were like,

"Do you want to hold my hand while we walk across?" So.

Got some funny looks occasionally but, um, yeah.

Well, presumably the joy of Durham is that by the end you will have

definitely overcome it. Cos you'll have to have done.

Yeah, hopefully. I think that was,

my parents kind of mentioned as a little aside,

"You do realise there are a lot of bridges in Durham?"

And I said, "Well, if I can come out with a degree and sort of semi-cured

"then, you know, it's a bonus."

OK, well, I hope you can come out with a round under your belt here

as well, Grace. Food & Drink is the subject and would you like to go

-first or second against Kevin?

-Um, first, please.

So, here we go.

My Stir-Fried Life published in 2016

is the title of which TV chef's autobiography?

Um, I'm not sure on this, to be honest.

I have a few cookbooks at home,

but think my dad is more the chef in that point.

I think I'm going to go with Ken Hom.

But it's a bit of a guess.

Ken Hom is the right answer.

My Stir-Fried Life.

Well done. Kevin.

Which port in Kent gives its name to a type of flatfish

in the sole family?

I'm not aware of either a Margate or a Broadstairs sole

but there is a Dover sole, so Dover.

Dover sole is right.

OK, Grace, your question.

The meatballs known as kottbullar

originated in the cuisine of which country?

Let me spell it for you, it's K-O... - with two dots on it,

..T-T-B-U-L-L-A-R.

Kottbullar.

I don't think it's Sweden,

I think it would probably more likely to be either

Denmark or the Netherlands.

Um, I think I'm going to go with the Netherlands on this one.

Let's see if the Eggheads know. Any Eggs?

-Sweden.

-You think it's Swedish. What, Swedish meatballs?

Sweden's renowned for meatballs.

-It's true.

-I'm afraid it's Sweden, Grace.

Oh, OK.

Kevin, over to you.

Bakewell tarts are typically flavoured

with which of these ingredients.

I've had a few of these over time, so I'm hoping the answer is almonds.

Almonds is right. So, Kevin goes ahead.

So, Grace, you need to get this one right.

-Okey dokey.

-Here we go, no stress.

What is typically used as a garnish in the cocktail known

as a vodka Gibson?

Um, again I'm not very sure on this one so I think it

might have to be a guess.

Um, I think I'm going to go with chilli pepper.

Eggheads, do you know this one?

Yes, cocktail onion.

A cocktail onion is the answer, Grace, sorry.

Kevin has taken it, no way back for you, beaten by our Egg here.

But it is just the first round,

there's lots more time to play and to win, Challengers.

Return to us, Grace and Kevin, we'll play on.

OK, the Palatimates have lost a brain,

they've lost Grace from the final round.

The Eggheads are all still sitting there.

The next subject for you is Arts & Books.

So, who would like this?

Just what we didn't want to come up straight after Food after that.

Who reads the most? Um, this was not part of the plan.

This was Grace's!

-Shall we go Kyle?

-It's going to have to be me, yeah.

OK. Kyle.

OK, Kyle, our politics and international relations student,

against anyone but Kevin.

-Who would you like?

-Lisa or Chris maybe.

Shall we go with Chris?

Yeah, in case, if sports comes up

then I think we'll take Lisa for that.

-So Chris.

-No problem.

-Yes.

-We're going to go with Chris.

Righty-ho. Kyle from the Palatimates taking on the great Chris,

known as the "steam roller", from the Eggheads.

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

Kyle, you are an expert in karate.

Er, well, I'd like to think so.

Er, I've spent enough of my life doing it.

I've been doing it since I was six years old.

And for the past five or six years I've also been teaching it

-to younger children as well.

-Lovely.

OK, well, if it goes wrong on Arts and Books,

you can always use the karate on Chris.

That's a sure-fire way of knocking him out.

I think Chris looks like a strong fellow, I think.

-I think he'd stand a good chance.

-He could take a few blows, yeah.

OK, Arts and Books Kyle, would you like to go first or second?

I would like to go first, please, Jeremy.

So here we go with your first question, Kyle, good luck.

Although the evidence is against it, there is a widespread belief that

Michelangelo created which work of art, lying for years on his back?

Now. Ah...

My knowledge on classical arts, um, isn't the best,

so I'm just going to go off what I know of these pieces.

Sistine Chapel, obviously on the ceiling,

David, sculpture, and Pieta, hm.

Now I think about it, I think something like this Sistine Chapel

would take that length of time to create.

And I'm thinking of the elaborate system by which

he'd probably lie on his back and do that.

I think I probably would have to go with the Sistine Chapel

just because I don't know what Pieta is and I think sculpting

a statute such as David on your back would be quite inefficient.

I'm going to have to go with the Sistine Chapel.

Sistine Chapel ceiling is correct right. Yeah, well done.

OK, Chris. Which of these characters dies at the end of Charles Dickens'

Oliver Twist?

Ah, yeah, Bill Sikes has killed Nancy

and he's pursued by the forces of law and order, shall we say,

and winds up hanging.

So it's Bill Sikes.

Yes, it is Bill Sikes, well done.

One each. Back to you, Kyle.

Which of these is the title of a Booker Prize-winning novel

by Kingsley Amis?

Now, I've not actually read any of those books myself.

The only one I explicitly recognise is Empire of the Sun

which I think was turned into a film in about...late 1980s.

Considering it was created into a film,

I think I probably would have to go with Empire of the Sun.

OK, Empire of the Sun is your answer.

Any Challengers know this, is he right?

We, well, we all seem to think Empire of the Sun as well.

Empire of the Sun was written by a guy called JG Ballard, I think.

-Yeah.

-Who was Moon Tiger written by?

-ALL:

-Penelope Lively.

So the Old Devils is the answer, Kyle.

But you're right, the film was a good memory,

it just wasn't that author.

Chris, which French artist born in 1839

painted Mont Sainte-Victoire, a mountain near his home

in Aix en Provence,

over and over again in the latter part of his career?

Ah, well Toulouse-Lautrec of course spent all his time

in Paris painting the Moulin Rouge and stuff.

Paul Cezanne I think is too late.

So, it's got to be Claude Monet.

-Oh, no, no, no!

-Oh, Barry's having chest failure.

What's happening?

No, Paul Cezanne is famous for painting that mountain.

It's Paul Cezanne, Chris.

Ah! Thought he was later.

Yeah, Barry's confirmed it.

OK. One each.

Kyle, that's a bit of a let-off.

Get this one right, and maybe we can dislodge Chris with a karate chop.

Les Diners de Gala is a cookbook

compiled and illustrated by which artist?

Now, let me just spell it,

so "les", is L-E-S and then "diners" is like diners but with a chapeau,

a hat on the I.

"De", D-E. "Gala", G-A-L-A.

Les Diners de Gala is a cookbook

compiled and illustrated by which artist?

We're on the subject of cookbooks again.

Um, and I must say, er, cookbooks is not a particular expertise of mine.

I think to go with an educated guess

I would have to look at the language.

The language of the book that you've just mentioned sounds more French,

particularly, particularly "les" of course.

Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali obviously Spanish artists.

Just from my knowledge of European languages,

my very thin knowledge of European languages,

I think I'd probably have to go with Joan Miro,

-is that how you pronounce it?

-"Juan" Miro, I guess?

-It is Salvador Dali.

-Gala was the name of Salvador Dali's wife.

Well, I thought it was Gaia, that was my confusion there.

-No, it was Gala with an L.

-Gala with an L.

OK, Chris. If you get this right, you're in the final round.

In which Shakespeare play do the following lines appear -

Chris, here we go.

"Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world

"Like a Colossus, and we petty men

"Walk under his huge legs and peep about

"To find ourselves dishonourable graves."

-That's from Julius Caesar, Jeremy.

-You know that?

-I know that.

-Julius Caesar is the right answer, well done, Chris.

With two you've taken it, you're in the final.

Sorry, Kyle, knocked out.

Return to us please both of you and we'll play round three.

OK, as it stands the Palatimates

have lost two brains from the final round.

This is not yet a crisis, Reese, is it?

-No, not at all.

-But I feel you've got a plan.

-We did have, yes!

-Well, ducking and weaving, don't worry.

The Eggheads can fall apart at any moment, can't you, Eggs?

You know this. The next subject for you is Sport.

-Who would like Sport?

-It's got to be you, mate.

-Should I go for it?

-Unless Jonty's feeling particularly confident?

-If you go, and I'll go for science if it comes up.

-OK.

-OK.

-Jonty?

-Yes, yes, Jonty.

Our biological sciences student.

Against which Egghead?

Jonty, it's going to be either Lisa or Steve or Barry on the left.

-I'd say Lisa.

-Er, we're going to go against Lisa.

So it's Jonty from the Palatimates

taking on Lisa from the Eggheads for round three.

Please take your positions.

So is sport your thing, Jonty?

Um, potentially.

I'm not too sure. Depending what sports come up, really, I think.

OK. Would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

So here is your first question on Sport, Jonty, good luck.

The Rugby Union international Gavin Hastings

played 61 tests for which team?

Um, my initial instinct was Wales, but I know if I've got that wrong...

..I'm sure that some English or Scottish fans

will be very angry with me but I'm going to stick with Wales

as it was my initial instinct.

Scotland is the answer, Jonty.

Lisa, your first question.

Which French sporting occasion is also known as La Grande Boucle,

meaning the great loop?

La Grande Boucle, did you say?

La Grande Boucle, B-O-U-C-L-E.

Well, it's bothering me because it feels like it

ought to be automatic.

I've never heard it applied to Le Mans or the Tour de France,

that's not a guarantee.

And I know almost nothing about horse racing so

it quite possibly is the Prix de l'Arc.

Um, I don't really know.

I'll try the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

-No, it's Tour de France.

-It is the Tour de France, OK.

-It is.

OK. Level still.

Jonty, back to you.

The world champion boxer Gennady Golovkin represents which country?

-I can spell it if you like.

-Yes, please.

Both words begin with G.

G-E-N-N-A-D-Y and then G-O-L-O-V-K-I-N,

Gennady Golovkin.

Sorry, I don't know...

..the answer. Boxing really isn't my thing.

I think,

looking at the name, I'm going to go for Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan is the right answer, well done, Jonty.

OK. Ahead of Lisa.

Which was the first city in the

southern hemisphere to host the Olympic Games?

My panic is stemming from the fact I can't remember

if Melbourne's done it or not.

Obviously, it's not Rio...

..because Sydney did it before Rio.

So you can fairly effectively rule Rio out.

It's just a question of whether Melbourne has actually done it.

I can't help but think it has.

-So I'll go with Melbourne.

-Melbourne.

Let's check with the Eggheads. Eggs?

-Yes, '56.

-'56, Lisa.

There we go. There's the date I was looking for!

Melbourne '56. All right, well, that's a shame.

I thought she was going to maybe stumble there.

You're level. And, Jonty, we go back to you for your third question.

In 2016, Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark became Olympic gold medallists

in which sport?

I... Oh, no, I don't think it was hockey.

I initially thought rowing.

But sailing's a bit of a curveball for me as well.

I think like in the first question,

I'll go with what I initially thought and say rowing.

-Challengers?

-We think it might be sailing.

Sailing is the answer, Jonty.

So Lisa can take the round with this question.

In 2016, which Northamptonshire batsman

became the first cricketer

to win both the PCA Players' Player of the Year Award

and Young Player of the Year Award in the same season?

Lisa?

I don't know why you keep reading.

As soon as you say the word cricketer

you know I've started to panic and I'm not going to get it.

Um, poor old Jonty, he's been going with his first instinct

and getting it wrong.

I've been ignoring my first instinct and getting it wrong.

I don't know. I shall say Sam Curran.

No, it's Ben Duckett.

All right. It's cricket.

-Yeah.

-It means nothing to me.

So Ben Duckett is the answer, Jonty, you're off the hook on that,

one point each after three questions.

And we go to Sudden Death. It gets a little bit harder now, Jonty,

I don't give you alternative answers, OK.

Here we go. Which British boxer beat Wladimir Klitschko

in a world heavyweight title bout in November 2015?

Um, I think this was quite famous and I'm going to say Anthony Joshua.

No, it was Tyson Fury.

Of course it was!

OK, Lisa, for the round.

Which tennis player won his fourth straight ATP World Tour Finals title

in November 2015?

OK. Um, we'll go for Novak Djokovic.

Novak Djokovic's the right answer, Lisa, you're in the final round.

Sorry, Jonty, knocked out by our Egghead.

One more round to play before the final.

Come back to us both of you and we'll play it.

OK, as it stands the Palatimates have lost three

brains from the final round.

The Eggheads have not lost one yet but it might change.

It's music for you now.

So it's Reese or Craig to do music, who is it going to be?

I'll...

-We'll go with Craig.

-OK, Craig.

Who would you like to pick? You can have Steve or Barry.

Shall we try and take out Barry?

-Yeah.

-I'd say go against him. Modern music might be a trip up.

-We'll go for Barry, please.

-All right. Craig from the

Palatimates taking on Barry from the Eggheads.

To ensure there is no conferring,

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

So Craig, you and Reese have

set up something called the Model Westminster Society?

We have, yeah, it's a month old,

so it's still very much brand-new.

And what's it all about?

Um, it's all about empowering young people in

social...in social action and social policy-making.

Wow! So, getting people to understand they can change things?

Definitely. Um, with a particular focus on the North East.

So both in terms of the University and the local community also.

Brilliant. All right.

Well, here we go on music, Craig, against our Barry.

And would you like to go first or second?

Um, could I go second, please?

No problem. So, here we go, Barry, your question.

Hello I Love You and The End are famous songs by which band?

I don't think it's The Doors.

I really don't know. It just doesn't sound like Guns N' Roses

so I'll go for Nirvana.

Oh, Barry, Barry, Barry!

-Oh, I've done it again!

-It's that '60s music,

it catches you out, doesn't it?

Yes, it's Jim Morrison's The Doors.

Oh, goodness me!

All right we'll move on. Craig, it started well.

Pharaoh's Dream Explained and The Brothers Come to Egypt

are songs from which musical?

I think both have a theological backing

both in terms of Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph,

I've watched Jesus Christ Superstar, um, and I don't have many

recollections of those in there.

So I think I'm going to go for Joseph.

Yeah, Joseph, or as it was known,

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Joseph is right. Well done.

Barry. Celine Dion won the Eurovision Song contest

for Switzerland in which decade?

I think it was a long time ago, so I'm going to go for the 1970s.

OK. '70s is your answer.

It was actually 1988.

-Oh!

-Oh, dear, Barry, let's hope she's not watching.

-I'm having a nightmare round.

-Well slightly.

-Absolutely.

Craig, this is looking good.

Get this one right and you'll be in the final round.

And we may be turning it around for our Palatimates here.

"The sirens are screaming and the

"fires are howling way down in the valley tonight" -

are the opening lines of which famous song?

Um, my, my father is a very big fan of the music,

so I think it's going to be Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf,

who he's a big fan of.

Bat Out of Hell's right, well done, you're in the final round.

Craig, how about that, you've dislodged an Egghead.

It's happening for the Palatimates at just the right moment.

Craig and Barry, come back, rejoin your teams.

We're going to play the final for 11,000.

So a late surge by our Challengers

and this is what we've been playing towards -

it is time for our final round.

As always, it's general knowledge questions

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

don't take part in this round.

So, Grace, Kyle and Jonty from the Palatimates and also Barry

from the Eggheads, would you please now leave the studio.

Reese and Craig, don't be nervous,

you're playing to win the Palatimates £11,000.

Lisa, Steve, Kevin, Chris,

you're playing for something

that money can't buy which is to keep the run going.

And just protect the Eggheads' reputation.

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

They're all general knowledge.

OK, and you can confer, so, Palatimates,

the question is can your two brains defeat these four?

Something that will be talked about in Durham for years to come.

Reese and Craig, would you like to go first or second?

I think we're going to go first please, Jeremy.

Here we go with your first question, good luck.

Pierre Balmain was a famous name in which field?

It's spelt, it's Pierre and then it's B-A-L-M-A-I-N.

Sounds very French, but I think fashion and ballet's sticking out.

Architecture was coming into my head when it came up.

But it could be fashion.

I'm just trying to think of people in fashion.

-Yeah.

-Balmain. I mean, not that I'm that...

I mean I shop from shops that are not exactly high-class fashion...

-So Balmain.

-It's a very old-school name.

It's an obscure area, I think.

-Ballet is not my interest.

-I guess it's just taking a chance?

What do you want to go with?

I'm drawn to architecture but I might be wrong.

Shall we just go for it? I don't think...

We don't really know, do we?

Well, we don't really know

but we're going to take a stab at architecture.

Architecture is your answer.

-Eggheads, do you know?

-Fashion.

Fashion is the answer.

French designer. Not to worry.

Eggheads, in ancient Roman myth and literature,

Mors is the personification of which of the following?

-ALL:

-Death, death.

Yeah.

Yeah, we all agreed that's death, Jeremy.

It IS death.

Mors is death. OK, back to you, Palatimates.

Brisbane Road is the home of which London football team?

Millwall is the Den, Charlton Athletic's

the Valley, so it's got to be Leyton Orient.

-I assume you trust me.

-I trust you.

So hopefully my football knowledge is good enough,

we're going to go for Leyton Orient, please.

Leyton Orient is the right answer, well done.

So one each. Eggheads, over to you.

In the 1730s,

John Harrison invented a number of what kind of devices that were

designed to help explorers at sea?

What were they?

Chronometers.

Longitude and all that, Dava Sobel.

Again, Jeremy, we all seem to be fairly happy that's chronometers.

Chronometers is the right answer.

That's longitude, latitude, and...

-Yeah.

-It's placing you.

-To determine...

Yeah, cos for centuries they'd been able to determine latitude but the

problem had always been determining the east-west longitude.

This was designed to assist in that, solve the problem.

OK. So they have two and you have one,

you need to get this right to stay in, Reese and Craig.

Which politician became the first Englishman

to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1903

for his work with the international arbitration movement?

1903.

Gladwyn sounds very Welsh rather than English.

But whether he was Welsh I guess is a different question.

Don't recognise any of the names.

-No.

-I think Eric Drummond sounds the most English.

It does. Cremer sounds... It's a bit European.

-See, when it first came up, Jebb was my first thought.

-Was it?

-But...

-OK.

-Gladwyn...?

Yeah, I suppose it's pretty Welsh.

-Shall we go with Drummond?

-Um, Drummond,

it stands out the most out of those names.

Again, we're not too sure

but we thought Gladwyn Jebb sounds a bit Welsh

so we've ruled him out and Cremer, we've said sounds

a bit European, but Eric Drummond sounded like

the most English name, so we are going to go with Eric Drummond.

Eric Drummond is your answer,

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

Eggheads, the correct answer?

Is William Randal Cremer.

Randal Cremer is the answer.

I'm so sorry, Palatimates, we have to say congratulations, Eggheads,

you have won.

Oh, bad luck, Palatimates.

Well done, Craig, for getting through the early stages.

They're just on very good form at the moment.

They're not getting much wrong. Well, Barry!

LAUGHTER

We don't know what happened there Barry.

It was one of those days, wasn't it?

Oh, Eggheads, you've done what comes naturally

and your winning streak continues.

So it means that the Challengers don't go home with the £11,000.

We take the money, we roll it over.

Eggheads, well done.

Who will beat you? Oh, before we go.

Chris, your question.

Well, they disappeared from London in '52, Leeds in '59,

Sheffield in '60 and Glasgow in '62.

They were the good old-fashioned trams.

Trams. Right.

Did you get that at home? Join us next time to see if a new team of

Challengers have the brains to defeat them.

£12,000 says they don't.

Surely somebody's got to win it.

Till then, goodbye.