Episode 83 Eggheads

These five 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.

You might recognise them as they've won some of the country's toughest quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.

Taking on our champions today are Meet Your Waterloo

from Hampshire. The team all quiz together at the Waterloo Arms in Lyndhurst

and are so successful that

the other teams no longer applaud them when they win! Let's meet them.

Hi, I'm Lynne. I'm 61 and I'm a retired home care manager.

Hi, I'm Gordon.

I'm 60 and I'm a retired power generation engineer.

Hi, I'm Liz.

I'm 48 and I'm a resettlement worker.

Hi, I'm John. I'm 45 and I'm a transport operations manager.

Hi, I'm Dave. I'm 43 and I'm a rating auditor.

So Lynne, they don't applaud in the pub any more when you win?

No, I'm afraid not, no. It's more or less a great deep sigh, really.

This is the same reaction these guys get!

Yeah, but I don't think the standard is quite the same!

And Lynne and Gordon, you're partners, and then Liz and John,

you're married?

So, Dave, you're the gooseberry?

Yes, yeah. I live with somebody, but I don't actually play on the

same team as them, so I'm one of the ones that boos from another team!

We usually come second quite often to their team.

Well, that's a high recommendation.

Good luck, because you're really up against the mighty champions today.

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, Meet Your Waterloo, the Eggheads have won the last six

games, which means £7,000 says you can't beat them.

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

Challengers, which one of you wants to play this round, and against which

Egghead? Tell us. Food & Drink.

-Do you want me to do it?

-Yeah.

-I think I'll do that, Jeremy.

-Which Egghead looks the most susceptible here?

-Can I take on Kevin, please?

-All right.

So, from Meet Your Waterloo it's Lynne, versus,

from the Eggheads, Kevin.

To ensure there's no conferring, would you please take

your positions in the question room?

Lynne, your choice. Would you like the first

set of questions or the second?

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

Lynne, your first question comes now. What name is given to a mixture

of oil, wine, spices or similar ingredients in which meat, fish or

other food is soaked before cooking in order to flavour or tenderise it?

OK. Thank you.

I don't think it's a roulade because

I think that's round, I don't think that's a liquid thing at all.

Compote, I think,

tends to be sort of fruity, so I think I'll go for marinade.

-Marinade is your answer?

-Yeah.

-And you're 100% correct.

Good start, Lynne.

OK, Kevin.

What type of food is a guava?

It's a fruit, Jeremy, a type of fruit.

You're right. It is fruit. Well done.

Lynne, are you ready? Second question. Here we go.

In France, a pate de Paques

is traditionally served at what time of the year?

Can you spell Paques for me, please?

P, A with a little hat on, Q, U, E, S.

Mmm.

I'm not sure about this one.

I'll rule out Christmas, I think,

and go for...

Easter.

That's the correct answer. Well done.

Kevin, your question now.

Which small, round cake, made of

buttery, flaky pastry, with a filling of currants, was reputedly invented

by the cookery writer Elizabeth Raffald during the 18th century?

Well, Sally Lunn was invented supposedly by Sally Lunn, so...

How did you describe it again? Small, round...?

Small, round, made of buttery, flaky pastry, with a filling of currants.

That seems to describe an Eccles cake to me, so I'll go for that.

You're right, Kevin. It is the Eccles cake.

Eggheads doing well, keeping abreast of the challengers.

So, question three for you, Lynne.

Dishes described as a la Montmorency

are prepared with which fruit?

Well, I've never heard of an apple called a Montmorency, so I think I'll

rule that out.

I'll go for pears.

Look of incredible concentration on your face. It's really an amazing...

You were mesmerised by it!

Pears is the wrong answer, though.

It's cherries.

So, to take the round, we go over to Kevin.

Which shellfish shares its name with the morsel of meat found on either

side of the backbone in poultry?

Well, the only one there that I've heard of as a term relating to

internal bits around the kidneys is oyster,

so I'm going for oyster.

Your answer is oyster,

and it is the correct answer, Kevin. Well done to you.

And Lynne, you were beaten by our

Egghead, so as a result, you'll not be able to help your team in

the final round. Would you both please come back and

join your teams?

So as it stands, the challengers have lost one brain from the final round,

whilst the Eggheads have lost none. The next subject is Music.

Who from the challengers will be playing in this round

-and who would you like to take on?

-Dave?

-Yeah.

-OK.

-Happy, Dave?

-Yes, I'll take it on.

Dave, it's you, is it? Who would you like to take on from the Eggheads?

-I would say Chris.

-Chris.

So, it's Dave from Meet Your Waterloo

versus Chris from the Eggheads.

Would you please take your positions in the question room?

Dave, would you like the first set of questions or the second set?

I'll try the first set of questions, please.

The first question for you, Dave. Who sang

the Oscar-winning song Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)

in the 1956 film The Man Who Knew Too Much?

OK. I think I've only ever known Sophia Loren to sing one song,

and it certainly wasn't that, and I certainly believe it was too

early for Marilyn Monroe, so my answer is Doris Day.

Impeccable logic.

You're quite right, Dave. Well done. First point to you.

Next question to you, Chris. Gary, Howard, Jason and Mark are the

four members of which band?

Ye gods! Well, boy bands come about

somewhere just below football clubs on my scheme of things!

I don't think they're Westlife - they're Irish lads, they'd have

Irish names. Don't think it's Coldplay.

I'd say it's Take That, but with no great hopes of success.

You've got it, actually. Take That.

-Well done.

-Oh, right!

-All right. Next question to you, Dave.

You're doing well.

Who had a UK number-one hit single in 2008 with Mercy?

I'm afraid this really isn't my

sort of music at all, but I think I'm gonna have to guess at Duffy.

Brilliant guess. You're right. It is Duffy.

Next question to you, Chris. Who wrote the 1932 song Mad About The Boy?

Yes, which was originally to be sung by an epicene

young man. It was Noel Coward.

Quite right. It was Noel Coward.

So, Dave, a lot riding on this.

Live elephants have been used on stage in productions of which Verdi opera?

Again I think I'm gonna have to guess this one, totally.

I'll go for La Traviata, with no confidence at all.

La Traviata with no confidence, but some elephants?

Maybe!

I'm afraid it really would be an accident if there were elephants

in that! It's actually Aida, Dave.

So, Chris,

you now can win this round if you get this right.

Which musical by Stephen Sondheim features the songs I'm Still Here

and Losing My Mind?

Well, it's not Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

I think I remember hearing Julia McKenzie

sing those songs in Follies, so I would say

-Follies is the answer.

-And you sound quite certain about that.

-Mmm.

You're right to be certain. You're correct, Chris. Well done.

So, Dave, you were beaten by our Egghead.

As a result, you will not be able to help your team in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

As it stands, the challengers have lost two brains from the

final round, whilst the Eggheads

have lost none. The next subject is History.

Who from the challengers will play in this round,

and who would you like to take on, Waterloo? You've got Daphne,

CJ and Judith to choose from.

It's gonna be me, Jeremy.

It looks like it's gonna be you, John!

-Judith's quite good at History.

-I'm gonna take on CJ.

-CJ on History.

-And the shirt!

-A shock, isn't it, really(!)

-You always get done for this one!

-That's because I'm so amazingly young!

Of course! So, it is John from Meet Your Waterloo versus

CJ from the Eggheads.

Please take your positions in the question room.

OK, John.

I'll ask each of you three questions on History in turn,

and, John, you can choose whether to go first, with the first set of questions, or the second set.

I'm gonna go second, please, Jeremy.

So, CJ, the first question to you.

Which building was constructed in the fifth century BC on the Acropolis of Athens?

I will be there in two weeks!

Both the Colosseum and the Pantheon are in Rome, and it's the Parthenon.

You are quite right, CJ. Well done.

OK, John. What term is usually applied to the

period that started in Britain

two days before World War II, in which no light was to be seen at night?

It's definitely not fog, but I do seem to remember

something in the war called the blackout,

-so I'm gonna go for blackout.

-Quite right, John. Well done.

So, level pegging here, and back to our Egghead, CJ, with your question.

Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy and John Wright were three of the

five main conspirators of which historical rebellion?

Well, I'm gonna use a bit of, hopefully, logic here.

I don't know those names,

and I know the main conspirators in the Peasants' Revolt.

And I think

I know the two or three main conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot,

so simply on that basis I'll try the Boston Tea Party.

-It's actually the Gunpowder Plot.

-It is? Oh, dear!

-So, John,

the initiative is in your hands.

In British history, which monarch was the second surviving son

of James VI of Scotland and Anne of Denmark?

I'm not so good with kings and queens.

I'm pretty sure it's not Charles I.

I'm not sure. I'm gonna say William IV.

William IV is wrong. It was Charles I, and

the first one you ruled out, as well.

All right, CJ, your chance to take the advantage.

The Boston Massacre in which an angry mob was fired on by British

soldiers and five lives were lost took place in which century?

The 17th, the 18th or the 19th?

I'm just checking because the soldiers who fired on the crowd

were defended by John Adams, the second president.

The day that occurred to me,

Even though I might make a fool of myself, is 1803.

I know the soldiers who fired into the crowd

were defended in court by John Adams, who was the second president,

but I'm hoping it was after he left office,

so I'm going to go, and hope, it was the beginning of the 19th century.

Amazing amount of facts came out there...

-The wrong answer...

-But the key one was wrong!

-It was the 18th century.

-Oh, dear!

It was actually in 1770!

-That early!

-Funnily enough, so you're a little bit adrift there, CJ.

So, John, this is your moment.

The whole team here are on

tenterhooks, I have to tell you, but no pressure! Your question.

Which Archbishop of Canterbury whom Elizabeth I affectionately referred

to as "my little black husband"

was the only person she wanted with her on her death bed?

Was it Whitgift, Cranmer or Laud?

I'm beginning to think they should have put somebody else up for this!

I'm gonna go for the one that I know, which is Cranmer.

It's probably wrong, but...

You said Cranmer. It's actually Whitgift,

so you are still at one each out of your three

questions, so all is not lost, John.

We will now go to sudden death and just to make it that bit

harder, these questions will not be multiple choice. CJ, are you ready?

Oh, joy!

You obviously are!

What was the name of the capital of the Assyrian empire destroyed

by the Babylonians and the Medes in 612 BC?

I'm not sure if...

I think that's Assyrian.

I'm gonna try Niniveh.

Yeah, you're right. Brilliant stroke.

So John, let's see if you can hang on in.

Which 17th-century King of Sweden through his successful foreign and

domestic policy laid the foundations of the modern Swedish state and made

it a major European power?

I don't know. I'd have to say Olaf, but it's a guess.

It wasn't Olaf. That wasn't his first or last name. It was...

in fact, let me ask you, Eggheads. Do you know who it was?

-Gustavus Adolphus.

-Gustavus Adolphus.

All right, well, Eggheads, you triumphed in that round.

Sorry, John, you held on there brilliantly.

You were beaten by our Egghead.

As a result, John, you won't be able to help your team in the final

round, so would you both please come back and rejoin your teams?

So as it stands, the challengers

have lost three brains from the final round whilst the Eggheads

still haven't lost any.

The last subject is Arts and Books.

This time who from the challengers wants to play and

against whom from the Eggheads?

We've got to stick to our strategies. Yes. We have a strategy.

We have to stick to the strategy and unfortunately, I'm the sacrificial

-lamb who is mopping up the last head to head.

-Listen, you can still win!

You could still win, don't worry. Who do you want to play against?

You've either got Daphne or Judith.

-I'll take on Daphne, please.

-Daphne, Arts and Books.

-Lovely!

So Gordon from Meet Your Waterloo versus Daphne from the Eggheads.

Would you please take your positions in the question room?

OK. I will ask each of you three questions on Arts and Books in turn.

Gordon, you do get to choose whether you take the first set or give that

-to Daphne.

-I'll go second please, Jeremy.

Daphne, your first question.

What name is given to the area on either side of stage

where dancers or actors wait before making their entrance?

Is it the Wings, the Stalls or the Flies?

Well, I've watched my granddaughter so often

come in from the wings of the stage.

You're right... It is the wings of the stage. Well done.

First question to you, Gordon.

What is the term for the art of producing decorative handwriting?

Is it Calligraphy, Cardiography or Choreography?

Well, I'm so relieved!

I know what a cardiographer does...

it's to do with heart measurements.

Choreography would be dancing, so calligraphy

is decorative handwriting.

-That's my answer.

-Spot on. Great answer.

Well written.

One-all.

Daphne, in the Harry Potter books,

what is the name of the son of Vernon and Petunia Dursley?

Is it Dennis, Dudley or Damon?

Well, I haven't read any, but I have watched

the films with my grandchildren and

-it's Dudley.

-You're right... it's Dudley. Well, done.

Your question, Gordon.

What was the profession of Agatha Christie's second husband,

Sir Max Mallowan? Was he a lawyer, a doctor or an archaeologist?

I don't know how to eliminate the other two other than to say

I don't remember him being a doctor or a lawyer. I have a feeling

he was an archaeologist and that Agatha Christie used to go along to

some of the digs that he was at, so my answer is archaeologist.

Quite right. Well done.

Daphne, Sir Jacob Epstein was a famous name

in which branch of the arts?

-Was it photography, sculpture or theatre?

-Oh, he was a sculptor.

You are right. He was a sculptor.

Gordon, with it poised three to the Eggheads, two to the challengers,

you really need this.

Who wrote "The Periodic Table, A Collection Of 21 Meditations,

"Each Named For A Chemical Element"?

Primo Levi, Umberto Eco or Jean-Paul Sartre?

The reason I'm taking my time on this is that I have actually

read this recently,

but like a lot of stuff I've read recently,

it's the first thing to go out of my head. I'll take the first one...

Primo Levi.

You dredged it up brilliantly! Well done, Gordon, it was Primo Levi.

Well, OK.

We go to sudden death, don't we, so it's 3-3 between the two of you.

Still no signs of any cracks in Daphne's armour.

Let's see what happens. Daphne, "Sinners"

and "The World is Full of Divorced Women"

-are best-selling novels by which writer?

-I don't know!

It sounds a bit like Jackie Collins, so I'll take Jackie Collins.

-I don't know how you did it, but Jackie Collins is right.

-Is it!

-100% correct.

-It sounded like her.

Gordon, your question now to stay in the round.

Who wrote the popular children's book, "Stig of the Dump?"

Yes, I remember there was a series on the television but I have no idea

who wrote it, so I'll say Roald Dahl

but I'm not expecting that to be the answer.

It's not Roald Dahl.

-Eggheads, do you want to tell us? CJ, who wrote it?

-I can't remember!

It's actually Clive King who wrote it, Clive King.

Well, done, Daphne. Gordon, you were beaten by our Egghead.

As a result, you won't be able to help your team in the final round.

Would you both please come back and join your teams.

So, this is what we've been playing towards.

It's time for the final round which, as always, is 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, so, Lynne, Gordon, John and Dave

from Meet Your Waterloo,

would you please leave the studio?

OK, Liz, you are playing to win Meet Your Waterloo

-£7,000 and you're all on your own.

-Looks like it!

-It looks a bit lonely over there.

-Just a bit!

Eggheads, you are playing for something which money can't buy... the Eggheads' reputation.

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

This time the questions are all general knowledge and you are

allowed to confer! That's just my little joke!

Liz, the question is,

is your one brain better than the Eggheads' five brains,

and would you like to go first, or second? You can decide that.

I've always said in this position I'd go second, so I'm gonna go first.

All right. Your first question.

Which type of dog, Liz, has breeds known as German shorthaired,

German longhaired and German wirehaired?

Is it Spaniel, Pointer or Poodle?

OK. I did hope you were going to say something like dachshund

as one of those options.

Poodle, no... Poodles are woolly, they're not hairy.

I'm just gonna have

to plump for...

pointer.

Well, it is lonely there on your own, but well done, you're right.

Pointer is the answer.

Question one for the Eggheads.

What name taken from the French for "broken on the wheel"

is given to a debauched, usually elderly man?

Is it Roue, Fop or Libertine?

What name taken from the French for "broken on the wheel"

is given to a debauched, usually elderly man?

-That's a roue.

-A roue?

-Yeah.

You're quite right. Well, done.

One point each.

Liz, you're still in there.

Belgrade is the capital of which country, Liz?

Bulgaria, Serbia or Croatia?

OK. Belgrade...

was the capital of Yugoslavia when I was growing up and at school,

so it's going to be one of the former Yugoslav republics,

so that's not Bulgaria.

I am going to...

go for...

Serbia.

You're right. Well done.

I nearly changed my mind then!

My heart! You had my heart pounding there!

Good grief!

Eggheads, the heir-apparent to which European throne holds the

title "Prince of Asturias?"

Spain, United Kingdom or Belgium?

We all think it's Spain.

You're correct, it is Spain. Eggheads, well done. So it's 2-2.

Liz, in 2003, who became the first player in history to have won the

Champions League Trophy with three different clubs?

Was it Gennaro Gattuso, Edgar Davids, or Clarence Seedorf?

I can only guess that Champions League is football.

I mean, I'm that clueless really.

I'm gonna go for Clarence Seedorf.

If you don't get this, and they get their next one... You're out...

-But you've got it right...

-You're joking!

The line "I'm gonna guess the Champions League is football"

may be one of the classics, as it came before the correct answer!

Well done! I don't know how you did it!

That's brilliant!

OK, Eggheads, here's your third question.

"The best lack all conviction while the worst

"are full of passionate intensity"

is a quotation from a poem by which writer?

Is it TS Eliot, WB Yates or HG Wells?

It sounds like TS Eliot. It's probably TS Eliot with them.

So does it say a quotation from a work?

It's a quotation from a poem by which writer?

It's not Wells.

It sounds like Eliot, it's his sort of thing, but...

I think it's from The Wasteland, isn't it?

It's an Eliot rhythm.

Well, it sounds like his sort of depressing dirge.

It's not mystical enough for Yeats really, is it?

If you get this wrong... then Meet Your Waterloo...

I think Eliot is what we all think. It's from the Wasteland, yeah.

-Watch it be Wells now!

-OK. Are we agreed?

-Should know it really.

Do we agree?

-Go for Eliot.

-OK.

We all think it's TS Eliot.

-You all think it's TS Eliot?

-We all hope it's TS Eliot!

Great tension here. Meet Your Waterloo,

if they've got it wrong, Liz,

playing on your own, you will have taken the prize. Five Eggheads

we had on this quote from a poem widely regarded as the greatest of

the 20th century by WB Yeats.

Yes!

Challengers, you have won!

Honestly, I can't believe what I've just seen!

-What was the poem?

-The poem is the second...

and just because I happen to know this, "The Second Coming"

by WB Yeats, which starts "Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer.

"Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world".

And I'm looking at all of you and you're blank...

-I've never seen those expressions! Liz, well done!

-Oh, thank you!

What an astonishing result! Are there recriminations happening here or what?

No, no, it's just one of those things that we should have got.

-That's the sort of thing we should have got.

-We absolutely should have

-got it.

-It's purely just on the day.

-Well, here it is.

For the second time ever, the "Eggheads"

have been beaten by one person on their own. Brilliant strategy then.

You decided to go on last because you've got wider knowledge?

-Yes, I mean...

-There was a strategy, was there?

There was a strategy. I mean I know a little bit about a lot of things.

I'm not really a specialist in anything, so.

So your team held back the secret weapon until now, basically!

It's the art of the lucky guess, I think, or the educated guess a bit, maybe.

Maybe, subconsciously, I've got that name Clarence Seedorf stored there,

just for this moment, you know.

Congratulations to Meet Your Waterloo. You have won £7,000.

You are officially cleverer than the Eggheads.

You've proved they can be beaten.

Join us next time on Eggheads to see if the new team of challengers

will be just as successful.

Until then, goodbye.

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