Episode 64 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.

You ready to show off bit, Eggheads?

-We can try.

-Very excited.

-Can't possibly compete.

I think you might be overshadowed today.

Hoping to get one over on our quiz champions

are The Queens from London.

This team got to know one another after years

of touring their spectacular cabaret performances around the country.

-Let's meet them.

-Hi, I'm Ruby and I'm a performer.

Hello, I'm Rose, and I'm a drag queen.

Hi, I'm Cookie and I'm also a drag queen.

Hi, I'm Chantelle, and I'm a drag performer.

Hi, I'm Teresa and I'm a classical crossover singer.

So, Ruby and team, hello.

-Hello.

-Hi!

-This is sensational.

What can I say?

And Teresa at the far end, you are a singer and you're you.

-Yes!

-And the others are drag queens and you're amazing.

-Thank you.

-Did it take a long time to prepare for today's show?

-No.

-Ten minutes.

-Ten minutes?

-Between us.

So, what do you do when you go out and you perform?

What kind of thing, you do singing, you do dancing?

Oh, I don't do any dancing!

-Sidestep.

-Anyone want to admit to dancing?

Do you do any quizzing at all, team?

-We have a quiz host here.

-I do, I host a quiz.

-OK.

-Every fortnight, in Soho.

I love it, because I get to read the questions

and know the answers at the same time.

I'm quite stressed out because I don't have my answer sheet with me.

If I don't have mine, I get scared to pieces.

That's true. All right, let us see how you do.

Can't wait for this. Fantastic to see you all.

-How are you feeling up that end, Teresa?

-I'm feeling fantastic.

-I'm ready!

-OK, 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.

Queens, I can tell you, this is quite good, actually.

The Eggheads are on storming form. They've won the last 11 on the trot.

-No?

-So, there's £12,000 to play for.

-Whoo!

OK, that's good.

-Would you like to try?

-Yes!

I thought so. You can just overwhelm them

with the power of your personalities.

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

One of you Queens against either

Lisa, Steve, Barry, Kevin or Judith.

-I literally know nothing.

-You travelled a lot.

-You'll know geography more than anyone else.

-You've travelled.

-Shall I have a go?

-You've lived in many different countries.

Take one for the team.

-I'm going to go for it.

-All right. So, the quizmaster.

OK, Cookie Monster against which Egghead, Cookie?

-Any one of them.

-You know, before I came on,

I really wanted to go head-to-head with Judith, because I love Judith.

But then Barry came out in that shirt.

So, I'm just drawn to Barry at the moment.

Shall we do this?

It's Cookie from the Queens versus Barry from the Eggheads

on Geography. What's going to happen?

Please take your positions in our famous Question Room.

So, where do you like to perform best, Cookie?

I used to go over to Germany quite a lot

and perform for the troops over there. Also here as well.

So, I did that for a few years.

You also rap upside down while doing a handstand, if asked to?

If asked to, but not right now because I've just had my hair done.

No, I understand that. So, how do you feel going up against Barry?

I'm slightly nervous now. I'm just going to have to go for it.

Understood. Well, Barry, you've got a shirt that matches Cookie's hair.

-So...

-That's why I picked him.

-I try to live up to the occasion.

-OK.

Let's see how we go here, Cookie.

Would you like to go first or second on Geography?

Let me go first, please.

Here we go.

We're all feeling it.

What traditional name is given to the persistent air currents

that blow predominantly westward and towards the Equator

in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

I thought I knew the answer, then.

And these three things came up

and they're nothing of what I had in mind.

I don't think it's sport winds.

Trade kind of sounds a little bit like

to do with banking and stuff like that,

so I think that might be the trick answer.

Let me go for fruit winds.

-No, it is annoyingly the trade winds.

-Oh!

OK, Barry's first question.

Which of these capital cities is furthest north, Barry?

Well, I shall discount Rome straightaway.

Copenhagen is on one of the islands just off the Jutland Peninsula.

And as the Jutland Peninsula is probably further north than Berlin,

I will say Copenhagen.

Barry, you're right. Copenhagen it is.

So, Cookie, let's focus now and get this one right. Here we go.

Cardrona and Whakapapa are ski resorts

in which Southern Hemisphere country?

So, the first one is called Cardrona, C-A-R-D-R-O-N-A.

And the second one is called Whakapapa,

which is W-H-A-K-A-P-A-P-A.

I've just come back from Australia and New Zealand.

And I think there was some snow in New Zealand.

Cardrona kind of sounds...

I'm being pulled towards New Zealand for that Maori kind of feel.

But then it could be South Africa.

I'm trying to think when intelligent explanation I can give,

like Barry would give, but I can't.

Except that New Zealand was pretty.

I'm going to just jump in there and go for New Zealand.

The answer is New Zealand.

-Is it!?

-Yes!

-Yay!

That's how you do it. Well done, brilliant.

Over to you, Barry. See if we've unsettled Barry.

Gichigami, meaning "big water",

is a Native American name for which of the great lakes of North America?

Well, fortunately, as those who watch the programme know,

I'm a bit of a poetry buff.

And one of my favourite poems, actually, is Hiawatha.

And on Hiawatha, it starts "by the big lake Gichigami",

which I believe is Lake Superior.

So, I think poetry has given me the answer to this one.

Lake Superior is the right answer, Barry.

OK, this is your question, to catch up with Barry.

-And you've got to get this one right, Cookie.

-OK.

Mount Snezka is the highest mountain in which European country?

Snezka, S-N, E, with a kind of an accent,

Z with a kind of an accent, and then K-A.

Do you know, I really have no idea, so I'm just going to have to...

..go with what I feel.

I'm being drawn towards Czech Republic.

If it's wrong, girls, I'm really sorry.

-It's OK.

-But let's go for it.

-Czech Republic is correct.

-Yay!

Brilliant. Cookie, you've got two.

Let's see if it's enough to go to sudden death with Barry.

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

Cozumel is an island resort in which country?

Well, the sad news is that I've been to all three countries

but I don't recognise the name of the island.

Don't think Mexico has any island resorts.

But Turkey certainly does.

So, it's a toss-up really between Turkey and Thailand.

Cozumel...

I've changed my mind, I can't think of any Turkish island resorts

but I know Thailand does have a number,

so on that basis, I'll go for Thailand.

OK, so you were kind of veering between Thailand and Turkey.

-Mexico is the answer.

-HE LAUGHS

How about that? We're on sudden death.

-Cookie, well done.

-Come on, Cookie!

Playing so well.

You've held him off and gets a bit harder because I don't give you

-alternative options here, OK?

-OK.

What is the name of the large park in which Berlin's zoo is located?

Well, big in Germany is "gross".

Grossen Parken Platzen?

All right, I can see the logic there.

It's actually called Tiergarten.

Oh, of course.

OK. Barry, for the round,

the region of Connemara is in which county in the west of Ireland?

I don't know for sure.

I'm thinking about it.

I can think of lots of Irish counties,

but I don't know where Connemara is.

I'll try Galway.

Galway is the right answer, Barry. You've taken the round.

Bad luck, Cookie. Well played.

-Thank you.

-Barry's come through.

Cookie challenged him hard.

Come back to us, both of you, we'll play the next round.

All right, the Queens have lost a brain, but Cookie played well there.

The Eggheads have not lost any so far.

The next subject is Film & TV.

Who would like this? This has got to be good for you.

-Chantelle.

-Chantelle?

-Chantelle?

-Music is more my thing.

But, yeah, film and TV.

I think I'll be better at it than other things.

-So, yeah.

-OK.

-That's encouraging, isn't it?

-OK, Chantelle.

Choose an Egghead. It can be anyone except Barry.

-Judith, let's do it.

-Yeah?

So, it's Chantelle from the Queens versus Judith from the Eggheads.

Please go to the famous Question Room.

Chantelle, I love your look.

Thank you very much.

I gather it may well have inspired what is called the Essex look?

Definitely. Although I think I do it a lot subtler

than these Essex girls.

OK. Listen, Chantelle, it's Film & TV against Judith.

Would you like to go first or second?

Seeing as I'm the lady today, I'll go first.

Here we go with your first question.

Which of these superheroes appears in the 2016 film

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?

OK, I'm going towards Wonder Woman,

but it doesn't sound that related to either of those characters.

Storm is X-Men. So, I'm thinking Black Widow.

Wonder Woman seems to make sense, but I think...

OK. Let's do it, Black Widow.

-Ah!

-No!

-Huh?

-Team-mates, is she right?

-Wonder Woman.

-Wonder Woman.

OK, I should have followed my instincts.

I know, instinct very important in this game.

If your gut tells you something in the first moment,

they often say just go with it. OK.

Judith, the TV show Homes Under The Hammer

typically features which of these things?

Well, Homes Under The Hammer, under the hammer is always an auction.

So, I think it features property auctions.

Property auctions is the right answer.

She's pulled ahead, but only slightly.

Chantelle, here's your question.

Which English film and TV actor, born in 1976,

described his face as somewhere between an otter

and something people find vaguely attractive?

OK.

I mean, I don't want to say anything rude about Benedict Cumberbatch,

but I think it's probably him.

-Benedict Cumberbatch is the right answer, well done, Chantelle.

-Yes!

OK, Judith. If you get a question right,

you've got to do a dance as well.

Which actor played a concierge called Gustave H

in the 2014 comedy film The Grand Budapest Hotel?

Oh, yes. I saw that. That was Ralph Fiennes.

It was Ralph Fiennes. Chantelle, your question.

You need to get this one right.

Who played the journalist Joe Bradley

in the film Roman Holiday?

For some reason, Roman Holiday, that was with Audrey Hepburn...

..I believe.

The one I'm really drawn to is James Stewart.

I don't know!

Gregory Peck wouldn't... Let's go for it, James Stewart.

The journalist Joel Bradley was played by Gregory Peck.

-I'm sorry!

-Chantelle! Judith, well done, you're in the final round.

Chantelle, sorry, beaten by our Egghead.

Very good play though, all the same. Very determined.

Come back to us, both of you, and we'll play round three.

As it stands, the Queens have lost a couple of brains now

from the final round.

The Eggheads have not lost any, so they're playing solid defence,

the Eggheads. See if you can cut through them now.

Science is the subject.

Who is it going to be? Ruby, are you going to choose?

I'm really bad at science. But shall I just take it for the team?

-Take one for the girls.

-I'll take one for the girls, yes.

OK, Ruby. Science, and against which Egghead?

There's three left, so it's Lisa and Steve on the left, then it's Kevin,

who's next to Judith.

They're all very, very smart.

But I'm so drawn to Lisa's outfit. So, I'm going to choose Lisa.

All right, Ruby from the Queens to play Lisa from the Eggheads.

Let's see who can get their Bunsen burner hottest on science.

Please take your positions in the Question Room.

So, Ruby, you've done a lot of stage work.

As a child, you were in Oliver?

-Yes, yes.

-In the West End.

Yeah, obviously without the red hair,

but, yes, I was, when I was much younger.

And as an adult, you were the understudy

in The Phantom Of The Opera.

I was, of Her Majesty's Theatre Tour.

The whole Theatreland world is amazing in London, isn't it?

It is, absolutely, there's so much going on in London, it's fantastic.

All right, so here we are on science, Ruby.

A little way from the stage.

-Would you like to go first or second?

-I'll go first.

All right, here is your question, Ruby.

Which of these bones is located in the human leg?

I have no idea.

Don't think it's scapula.

I'm relying on some kind of psychic ability here, I think.

I'm going to say tibia.

-Let's just check with your team-mates. Do we like that?

-Yes.

-We love that. It's right, well done, Ruby.

-Oh!

-Intuition!

-So, here we go.

Lisa. Which of these dinosaurs was carnivorous?

Er, that was the Allosaurus.

Allosaurus is the right answer, Lisa, well done.

I don't know what they do at their lunch breaks,

they just study pictures of dinosaurs.

I just look at Rose for that!

OK, Ruby, your second question.

Which gas makes up about 90% of the atmosphere of Jupiter?

Ooh. I've never been there myself.

Um, but I don't think it's oxygen.

I'm going to just go for helium.

Is it right, Eggheads?

No, I would've thought it was hydrogen.

-Hydrogen is the answer, Ruby.

-Aw!

A chance for Lisa to take the lead.

Lisa. In radiocommunications, what name is given to a circuit

that suppresses the audio output of a receiver if the signal received

falls below a certain level?

I think we shall seize on the word "suppresses" there

and go for squelch.

Squelch is right.

Don't want to be knocked out by a squelch, Ruby,

let's see if we can just... THEY LAUGH

See if we can get this one right.

What is the preferred diet of Caiman lizards?

They don't sound like they're from an area where you would find sheep.

If it's a lizard, would there be snails there?

Because it would probably be somewhere hot.

I don't know, I'm thinking too much into it. I actually don't know.

I'm going to go with snakes.

-What do we think, Eggheads?

-I'd have gone for snakes.

They would have all said snakes.

-And it's snails?

-The answer is snails, Ruby.

Oh! Baffled the Eggheads as well there, Ruby.

-See? Great minds.

-Yeah, very much so.

Lisa, well done, you're in the final.

Sorry, Ruby, knocked out, beaten by our Egghead.

And unable to help your team in the final round.

Ruby and Lisa, come back,

we've got one more round to play before the final.

The Queens have lost three brains from the final round.

The Eggheads are still all there, all five of them.

Looking a little bit too pleased with themselves, aren't they?

-Yeah.

-I think this is the moment, Queens.

And it's History, which is perfect for Queens.

So, who is the history person?

Rose or Theresa?

I'm going to throw Theresa in with this.

OK, Theresa. History.

You've got to choose an Egghead, Theresa,

and it can be either Steve or Kevin.

I'm going to go Steve because he is slightly younger,

I might have a smidgen of a chance.

-Yeah?

-No offence, Kevin.

-No, No.

-On the basis he's experienced fewer events?

-Yeah.

-Yeah. That's good logic.

OK, Theresa from the Queens taking on Steve from the Eggheads.

To ensure there's no conferring for the last time,

please go to our famous Question Room.

So, Theresa, you like to sing.

I do, yes!

I know you do, but history is not a big part of your life.

No. I can't even remember what I did last week.

But you've got a nice sort of multicultural thing

-because your parents are Italian, right?

-Yes, they are, yeah.

And you switch in and out of Italian?

Yeah, you might even get a bit of it if the answer is really difficult,

-who knows?

-Well, an Italian dimension comes up a lot,

-Steve, doesn't it?

-Certainly does, yes.

There is, obviously Italy's played a major part in history.

Yeah. Good luck against Steve.

Would you like to go first or second, Theresa?

Can I go second?

You certainly can.

So, first question then, to Steve.

Which European country invaded Algeria in 1830?

Algeria. I think that must be France, Jeremy.

It was France, you're right.

-OK, over to you, then, Theresa.

-I knew that one!

Here we go. The area known as Vinland to Viking explorers

such as Leif Eriksson was in which continent?

Well, did the Vikings really go to Africa or Asia?

Hm.

I'm going to go North America.

-North America is right.

-Agh!

And the logic was perfect.

All right, Steve.

In which year did the Queen launch HMS Dreadnought,

Britain's first nuclear powered-submarine?

Yeah. I'm not 100% sure but I would go for

the earliest of those, I'd say 1960.

1960 is quite right. Right, just keep pressing him.

Josip Broz Tito was the political leader of which country

for several decades of the 20th century?

Josip is J-O-S-I-P, and Broz is B-R-O-Z,

and then, Tito the surname, T-I-T-O.

Tito makes me want to go for Greece.

However, I'm going to go Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia is the right answer. SHE YELPS

Right, 2-2. Let's just remember this moment.

Steve, your third question.

Who was the first Yorkist King of England?

-First Yorkist.

-Yes, that's right.

It's Edward IV, Jeremy.

-Judith, is he right?

-I think it is.

-Edward IV is correct.

-Oh!

Oh, Theresa.

All right.

If you get this right, we go to sudden death, anything can happen.

At the end of the 16th century and the start of the 17th century,

John Speed from Farndon in Cheshire became famous for making what?

-So, end of the 16th century?

-Yes.

So, surely they had swords before that.

Ships, we must have had.

But then, the pirates had maps.

Oh, I don't know.

Erm, I'm going to go for maps.

The answer is maps, you've got it right again!

-Three out of...

-Whoo, whoo!

And what's great, you're applying logic brilliantly here.

I didn't know I was this intelligent!

You're playing really well.

OK. Three each. We go to sudden death.

I don't give you alternatives.

Steve, in 1963, the USA, the USSR and which other country

signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?

Erm...torn between two.

I'm doubtless going to pick the wrong one.

I will say...the UK.

UK is the right answer.

-Which was the other one, France?

-France, yeah.

-Yeah, OK.

Theresa, you need this to stay in now.

Who was shot by Violet Gibson, the daughter of Lord Ashbourne,

in Rome in 1926?

Ah, I have no idea.

Absolutely no idea. 1926.

Uh-oh.

OK. I'm just going to have to give a name.

Maybe she shot Lord Ashbourne?

She shot her own father?

It's quite... It might have gone off by accident.

It's interesting, because of your Italian connection, I was thinking,

"Oh! You might get this," because it is a very Italian answer.

The person she shot was Benito Mussolini.

I was going to say Mussolini and then I thought, no, because he's...

-Aw!

-No, it's shot, but not dead.

Benito Mussolini. So, Steve has taken that round.

Oh! An Italian question, it was meant to be.

I know, I know!

If he'd said France and you'd said Mussolini...

All right, Steve, come back to us, Theresa come back,

we're going to play the final round for £12,000.

So, this is what we have been playing towards.

It is time for the final round,

which as always, is General Knowledge.

But those of you who lost your head-to-heads

don't take part in this round,

so, Ruby, Cookie, Chantelle and Theresa from the Queens,

would you please leave the studio?

OK, Rose, here we are and you're playing to win the Queens £12,000

and they're looking on from behind in a very excited way.

Lisa, Steve, Barry, Kevin and Judith,

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

which is the Eggheads' reputation.

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

they're all general knowledge.

I usually say you can confer but it's a bit tricky on your own.

So, Rose, the question is, can you, with your one brain,

defeat these five?

And would you like to go first or second?

I'd like to go first, please.

OK, so your first question, Rose, is this.

Which actress did Johnny Depp marry in 2015?

And divorced as well.

It's Amber Heard.

Amber Heard is the right answer.

Yes, we like that a lot.

OK, first point to you.

Eggheads, in which country did the folk dance

called the gavotte originate?

-I think that was French, wasn't it?

-French, yeah.

-Le gavotte, or la gavotte.

-Pretty sure it's France.

I don't think it's one where it came from somewhere else

and the name was then turned into French.

-I think it would be France.

-It's a French word.

We think that's France, Jeremy.

France is the right answer.

OK, just keep pressing on here, Rose.

Here's your question, second question.

The Republic of Texas lasted from 1836 to 1846

after having gained independence from which country?

Goodness, let me think.

Mexico, Texas, but the Netherlands...

..colonised...

Great Britain colonised as well.

I'm torn between Mexico and the Netherlands.

I'm going to say Netherlands.

Let's see with the Eggheads, is she right?

No, it's Mexico.

It's Mexico.

Eggheads, to take the lead,

which of these is the term for rope attached to the bow of a boat

for tying it to a key?

-Painter.

-Painter.

-Rope called a painter.

There is a boat rope called a painter, so painter.

Painter is correct, Kevin.

So, they got two, you got one.

You need to get this one right to stay in, Rose.

Annabel Karmel found fame for her expertise in which subject?

I literally have no idea.

Karmel.

I think I would have heard about it if it was fake tanning!

I really don't know this one, so...

I'm going to go with interior design.

All right, interior design.

Now if you've got this wrong, Rose, the contest is over.

Do I ask the Eggheads, shall we check with them?

-Oh!

-I think Lisa might know this.

It's child nutrition.

She writes sort of very, very healthy recipes.

So, child nutrition is the answer, Rose.

-I don't have any children.

-We have to say congratulations, Eggheads,

you have won!

The liveliest team of challengers we've had in for many a long week,

-I would say, wouldn't you, Eggs?

-Yes, ever!

-What a great party.

Oh, yes, party is the word, you've turned the programme

into a party today. Thank you so much, Queens.

Honestly, loved seeing you.

The Eggheads have done what comes naturally to them

and their winning streak continues.

So, it does mean the challengers don't win the £12,000.

We take the money, we roll it over to our next show.

Eggheads, 12 games on the trot, wow!

There are no words. Congratulations.

Well, there are some! Join us next time to see if a new team

of challengers have the brains to finally take them down a peg or two.

There'll be £13,000 waiting.

Till we quiz again, from us and the Queens, goodbye.