Episode 13 Make Me an Egghead

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 - do you have the brains to join them?

Hello and welcome to Make Me An Egghead.

We've launched a nationwide search

to find the greatest quiz brains in Britain.

By the end of the series,

two people will emerge as champions

and win the ultimate prize for quizzing enthusiasts -

a place on the most fearsome quiz team in history.

Yes, Eggheads, I'm talking about you.

I know you don't feel fearsome all the time, but you are.

Really? Yes.

Seriously. Let's meet today's contestants,

both hoping they've got what it takes to become an Egghead.

Hi, I'm David Edwards, I'm a retired physics teacher,

originally from Barry in South Wales

but now living at Denstone in Staffordshire.

Hello, I'm Terry Toomey, I'm a civil servant,

originally from London but now live in Macclesfield in Cheshire.

So, David and Terry, welcome.

Amazing quizzing pedigree you've both got.

David, starting with you, you won ?1 million.

I did, yes, yes.

You paused before you answered that, as if just checking it's true.

No, I remember it very well, thanks very much, Jeremy, yes.

So, you're in that select group.

How many millionaires have we got on the Eggheads?

Let's just remind us.

Pat and Judith did, as well.

Do you sometimes meet up as...

millionaires? Yes, yes, one way or another.

Pat and Judith were both in a sort of team,

we got together for a charity thing close to where I live.

That's probably about eight years ago now, isn't it?

Yes. If not more.

Terry, you've been, well, you've both been on Are You An Egghead?

which is the forerunner of this programme,

so you know what this feels like, Terry.

Yes, and I'm just as terrified this time.

Can you remember how it ended for you, Terry?

I got to the quarterfinal,

where I got beaten by someone called Shaun Wallace.

I think he's gone on to do other things.

OK, yes, I've heard of him.

David, what about you?

Well, I got to the final on the second series

and I came up against....

Pat Gibson. Yes.

In fact, somebody the other day told a similar story,

so you've obviously dispatched a few people on the way, Pat.

Not enough, not enough, Jeremy.

Well, he might even be able to help you this time.

Who knows? Good luck to you both.

This is going to be a contest, isn't it?

And this is where, contestants,

you need to prove that you could be an Egghead.

Just like on Eggheads, both of you will compete

over a series of different rounds where your knowledge will be tested

on the regular Eggheads categories.

So, the first head-to-head battle is going to be on Sport, OK?

I'm going to ask each of the three multiple-choice questions

on Sport in turn.

Whoever answers the most questions correctly wins the round.

The prize for winning a round on Make Me An Egghead

is that you gain one of these five brains for the final.

Now, before the show, we tossed a coin,

and as a result of that, Terry,

you can decide whether you want to go first or second.

I think I'll go first.

So, here we go, Terry, good luck.

In April 2016, Max Litchfield won a place to represent Team GB

at the 2016 Olympics in which sport?

It's not a name that I've heard of, but I think I can rule out golf,

because I think I probably would've heard of him if he was a golfer.

Swimming and rowing...

I'm going to go for rowing.

Rowing is your answer.

David, do you know this one?

I would've gone for swimming, but...

It's swimming.

So, you got that wrong, Terry.

And we go over to you, David.

The tennis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga represents which country

in international competition?

Er, right, it's...

He's definitely... I'd like to talk about the other two,

but I know for a fact that he's a Frenchman.

So, France.

France is correct.

Terry, Stuart Bingham and which other snooker player

are the only players to have won world titles

at both amateur and professional level?

Erm...

Obviously they've all won world professional titles.

I think it was Shaun Murphy.

OK, Shaun Murphy is your answer.

Actually it was Stuart Bingham and Ken Doherty.

So, David, you have a chance to take this round.

At the 1966 World Cup final,

which of England's goals were scored by Geoff Hurst?

Right, it's a long time ago, but I was there.

Not at the match, but watching it.

As soon as they came up I was filled with doubt,

but I...I think it's one, three and four.

Martin Peters got the second one, Geoff Hurst got one, three and four.

It is quite right, David.

And there's no way back in this round for Terry.

So we say congratulations, David, you've won the first head-to-head.

OK, as a result, you can choose an Egghead, David,

to play with you in the final round.

Er, I'll pick Kevin if I may, please.

OK. Why does everyone keep doing that?

David now has one Egghead, Kevin, to help him in the final round.

Terry doesn't have one yet.

We're going to move on to another category, and it's Film TV.

David, because you won the previous round,

you can decide if you want to go first or second.

I'll go first, please.

And here we go.

What is the profession of Tom Cruise's character

in the 1992 film, A Few Good Men?

Er, he is, he's actually a naval officer, I think,

but he's a naval officer working as a lawyer

in a trial, or naval or...

Yes, naval, I think, rather than army.

But he was working as a lawyer, you know, in a court case.

Lawyer is correct.

Terry, which of these comic book heroes

appears in the 2016 film Captain America: Civil War?

I'm trying to think, Captain America I think was...Marvel,

and I think Batman and Superman were both DC,

so I'd say, by process of elimination, Spider-Man.

Yeah, you're right, Terry.

Well done, Spider-Man.

First point in the contest.

Good stuff. David, your question -

in 2016, who took on the role of Anne Hathaway

in the comedy series, Upstart Crow?

Er, I used to, when this was on, not that long ago,

I used to come in and catch the end of the programme

when I came home from my choir practice,

and I remember seeing some scenes at the end of each programme

where David Mitchell was sitting, pipe-smoking,

chatting to Liza Tarbuck - Liza Tarbuck.

Liza Tarbuck is quite right.

Terry, All Time High was the theme tune to which 1983 James Bond film?

I'm not a great James Bond fan, I have to say.

But I know it's by Rita Coolidge, but that doesn't particularly help.

I think it was Octopussy.

It was Octopussy, you're right.

So, you're level.

David, your question -

which of these characters was killed in the 2016 series

of the TV drama Line Of Duty?

Well, in attempting to answer this one,

I've really got no alternative but to just look for a name

that looks suitable for a victim.

For no great reason other than that, I will go for Lindsay Denton.

Lindsay Denton is the right answer!

I guess that's top-line quizzing there.

Yeah, you guys do that.

David on three points.

Terry on two. Terry, to stay in, you need to get this right.

Here's your third question -

who played the role of Philip Lombard

in the 2015 BBC adaptation of the Agatha Christie murder mystery

And Then There Were None?

Right, I watched this and I couldn't think of who it was.

But I don't remember Hugh Bonneville being in it

and James Norton I don't remember being in it.

Aidan Turner.

Your answer is? Aidan Turner.

Aidan Turner is the right answer, well done.

After three questions each, the scores are level.

We go to Sudden Death -

gets a bit harder, I don't give you alternatives.

So, David, your question -

what is the title of the 2016 film starring Taron Egerton

and Hugh Jackman that tells the life story

of an underdog British ski jumper?

I can only think of one British ski jumper

and certainly one British underdog ski jumper,

and that's Eddie Edwards, so what would you call the film?

I will go for Eddie The Eagle.

You're absolutely right and it...

To guess the title of the film is actually no mean feat.

You obviously were right about the content,

but you've got the title right, so well done.

So, we're on Sudden Death, Terry.

This could end rapidly if you get this wrong.

"Fasten your seatbelt, it's going to be a bumpy night,"

is a famous line from which 1950 film?

I think it is...

Casablanca.

I can see why you say that.

It's not Casablanca. What year was Casablanca, firstly?

'43. Well, '42.

'42-'43.

Yes, but this is what, Eggs?

All About Eve.

All About Eve is the answer.

So on Sudden Death, David, you come through.

Well done, you've won a head-to-head.

And you can choose another Egghead. Not Kevin, you've already got him.

There being history there, I shall choose Pat, if I may, please.

Oh, I see, because now having knocked you out,

he's going to maybe keep you in.

I hope he'll do the decent thing, yes.

Are you feeling this is Shakespearean, Pat,

your chance to atone?

I hope I can help him and close the circle.

Wash your hands.

So, OK, David has two Eggheads now to help him in the final.

Terry, you've got to win one now to give yourself

just a bit of a defence against David in the final.

The third and last head-to-head is on History.

And, David, as the winner of the previous round,

you can decide whether you go first or second.

I'll kick off again, please.

And here's your first question, David -

where was Mary Queen of Scots executed in 1587?

Well, she may well have had periods of incarceration

in all of them, I can't remember,

but certainly she fetched up in the end at Fotheringhay Castle,

where she was executed, so that would be my answer.

Fotheringhay Castle is quite right.

Terry, your question - started in 1948,

the initiative to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II,

which involved the US giving over $12 billion,

was given what name?

What came into my head before the answers came up

was the Marshall Plan,

and as I've never heard of either the Cullen or the Ickes Plan,

I'm going to have to go for the Marshall Plan.

Marshall Plan is correct.

David, we go back to you.

Woodrow Wilson was first sworn in as US president in which year?

Right, now going here, they're close together, so what I've got to do,

really, is to have a think about

which years presidents are sworn in.

2017, the next US president will be sworn in,

so we're looking for something

which is a whole number of four years away from that.

So, that has to be, if I'm doing some sums correctly,

that has to be 1913.

Well done, brilliant logic, 1913 is correct.

Terry, it would be nice if he got one wrong, wouldn't it?

It would be lovely!

The Roman town of Venta Icenorum became which modern city?

Is this, Terry...

I don't think it's Sheffield, for...

For no reason at all, there's no reason I can rule it out,

it just doesn't sound right.

I think it might be Norwich.

Norwich is right.

Two points each.

Third question to you, David.

The American journalist Lowell Thomas is most remembered

for his association with and promotion of which figure?

I can't, I have to say, I'm really not sure.

Winston Churchill is certainly a very popular figure in America.

Erm, for some reason I can't imagine TE Lawrence

having many great protagonists in America,

but I may be totally wrong.

Um, with no great confidence and purely by sort of a warped logic,

I'll go for Winston Churchill.

Winston Churchill.

Do you know this one, Terry? Is he right?

It sounds right, but I'm not sure,

I think I would have gone for TE Lawrence.

TE Lawrence, the answer.

You've now got a question wrong, David.

And that means, Terry, you've got to take advantage now.

Your third question, if you get this wrong, we go to Sudden Death.

In British history, Richard I was fatally wounded

whilst besieging which French castle?

I...honestly don't know

and I'm not even sure I can make an educated guess,

so I'm probably going to have to make an uneducated one,

um, and go down the right for Bourdeilles.

Bourdeilles is your answer.

Now, Judith is our French correspondent. What do you think?

I think it is Chalus.

Chalus is the right answer.

OK, Sudden Death now.

Very tense here. David, if you win this round,

you've got three Eggheads behind you.

Nobody's yet overcome a contestant with three behind them.

Terry, if you win it, you get a chance to fight back

with an Egghead of your choosing.

Sudden Death, David, your question -,

the Detective Chief Superintendent who led the efforts

to get the Kray twins arrested in 1968 was known as Nipper who?

Really, I don't think I have any idea,

but I'll go for Nipper Jackson.

Terry, do you know this one? I do.

Strangely enough, I used to live in the same block of flats

as Violet Kray.

It's Nipper Read.

It is indeed, real name, Leonard Read.

So, again, Terry, you have a chance to take the round.

We're on Sudden Death here.

In 1895, which ship was purchased by a Portuguese company

and renamed Ferreira?

I'll say, because it may have changed its name back,

the Cutty Sark.

If you got this right, the round is over.

Is he right? He's right.

Yeah, you're right, it is the Cutty Sark.

There we go, Sudden Death.

Congratulations, Terry, you have won the final head-to-head.

So, you can choose an Egghead now, to help you in the final.

Who would you like? It can't be either of the two gents on the end.

Simply because I admire his shirt so much, I think I'll go for Barry.

All right, so, Barry, in the final round for Terry,

and, David, you've got Kevin and Pat in the final round,

so we're really set up for quite a contest.

Let's play that final round now.

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

it's time to find out who is one step closer

to becoming an Egghead and who's going to be eliminated

from our search.

David and Terry, I'm going to ask each of you three questions in turn.

This time the questions are all General Knowledge.

In this final round,

you'll have the backing of the Eggheads you've won

over the course of the show.

So, David, you'll have the help of Kevin and Pat there.

Terry, you've got Barry right behind you.

You're going to be able to call on your respective Eggheads for advice

before giving an answer to a question.

You can ask each of them for help only once,

so you must use them wisely.

Now, Terry, as you won the last round,

you get to choose whether you want to play first or second.

I'll go first.

So, our final round and here we go.

In 2005, Jeremy Hunt became an MP representing which constituency?

I honestly can't remember, so I'm going to play my Barry card early.

You're bringing in Barry now.

OK.

I'm sorry, I really don't know this one,

except that I don't think it's Aldershot.

That's fine.

I don't think it's...

I have a feeling it's not Carshalton and Wallington,

because I have friends who live there

and I think they would've mentioned if Jeremy Hunt was their MP.

Southwest Surrey just doesn't sound like a constituency.

It probably is, but it doesn't sound like one, so...

..although having asked Barry for his advice,

I think I'll have to go against it

and I think I'm going to go for Aldershot.

Aldershot is your answer.

Some of them have names which, you're right,

they're just not very interesting names,

Southwest Surrey is not a very interesting name,

but it is a constituency, and it is Jeremy Hunt's.

OK, first question to David -

which of these characters from children's TV

is played by Justin Fletcher?

I think I shall call an Egghead in to play.

I'll see if Pat has an idea.

OK, so, Pat...

Sorry, Pat.

I don't know this is your kind of thing, Pat,

but which of these characters from children's TV

is played by Justin Fletcher?

I'm sorry, David, I don't have any good information on this.

Mr Tumble is marginally more familiar as a name,

but that's nothing. I really don't...

I don't have anything solid to offer on this, I'm afraid.

OK.

Well, like Pat, Mr Tumble rings a bell to me

as somebody who at least exists,

but I'm intrigued by the fact that Mister Maker

specifically has the word Mister rather than M-R,

suggesting that, you know, you wouldn't make that up.

And I could imagine that it could be somebody

on a sort of junior DIY show

or something like that, if such a thing exists.

So I'm going to try and keep my Kevin powder dry,

rightly or wrongly, and I'm going to make...

..an attempt and say Mister Maker.

OK, so you've gone Mister Maker.

It's really funny, this, because as the parent

of still relatively young children,

Justin Fletcher is as famous in our house as Tom Cruise.

He is so, so famous.

And he's Mr Tumble.

All right, so where are we?

Well, you've both got your first question wrong,

you've both lost an Egghead.

Slight advantage to David because he had two to start with.

We go back to you, Terry.

Zia is the Italian word for which relative?

Z-I-A.

Erm, I'm...

I've never been very good at languages.

Some people would say I'm not very good at English.

But I think I'll go for...

..Aunt.

Aunt is correct.

So you're ahead, Terry, for now.

We go back to David.

Which of these words means to chip flint with a sharp blow

in order to make tools?

Er, right, I've seen programmes where archaeologists

have gone through the process of knapping flint,

so knap is my answer.

Knap is the right answer.

You're equal after two questions.

Your third question, Terry. Tense in here.

What is the surname of Claire, Rachel, Maggie,

Anna and Helen, the sisters who are central characters

of various Marian Keyes novels?

Um...

Well, Marian Keyes I know is Irish,

so I'm looking for the most Irish of those names,

which would be Walsh.

Your answer is Walsh?

You're right.

So, having been...had the upper hand, David,

throughout this interesting contest, you're now above the precipice.

You've got to get this one right. You've still got Kevin.

In 1882 the adventurer Frederick Gustavus Burnaby,

crossed the English Channel in which mode of transport?

The year again, please, Jeremy?

In 1882.

Right, so I...

..may well have done it in a hot-air balloon,

but it wouldn't have been newsworthy in 1882

because I think that was done about 100 years prior to that.

So, we're down to canoe, or glider.

My inclination is to go for a glider,

but I'm going to play the Kevin card if I may, please, and just ask him.

OK, well, you've put some thoughts in our mind there. Kevin?

I'm sorry, David, I don't know,

my reasoning on ruling out balloon would be the same as yours.

It's much too late, really, it would be nothing particularly...

..noteworthy about that then.

But as between the other two, as you suggested,

I'd probably wind up going for glider.

I've been trying to think if I...

I'm sure I've heard of Burnaby somewhere.

And I've been trying to think as between,

as between the two, but your instinct on this

will probably be as good as mine, I think.

OK, so unfortunately, rather like Pat earlier,

we haven't had a firm lead there, I think it's fair to say.

Right, well, having eliminated hot-air balloon,

my thinking as far as canoe is concerned

that there wouldn't be so much that was noteworthy

about crossing in a canoe as opposed to any other small boat,

so, er...

It would be a big event and worth putting Mr Burnaby

into the record books...

..if it were a glider, less so if it were a canoe,

and I think he'd have arrived a bit too late

for it to have been a hot-air balloon,

so, with my fingers very firmly crossed, I'm going to go for glider.

OK, glider is your answer.

Terry, do you know this one? I don't,

but I would've followed the same logic that David had.

It sounds like it should be glider.

If you've got this wrong, the contest is over and Terry has won.

If you've got it right, we go to Sudden Death.

In 1882, Frederick Gustavus Burnaby crossed the English Channel

in a hot-air balloon.

So, David, you got it wrong and we say congratulations, Terry,

you have won.

I completely follow the logic there

and I actually thought when I saw the right answer was hot-air balloon

and you hadn't gone for it, I thought,

"Well, Kevin will put you right,"

but, obviously, Kevin, it's just not on your grid.

No, not this one, I'm afraid, no.

David, what can I say?

You were absolutely in charge of the contest until the last moment.

And let it slip. Congratulations, Terry,

you've proved that winning comes as naturally to you

as it does to our Eggheads

and you're one step closer to joining our quiz Goliaths.

But your work for today isn't quite done.

We give you three points for each round you've won,

that's three points you've got already.

You're now going to get the chance to add to those points

by answering quickfire questions for two minutes.

At the end, we'll give you one point for each correct answer

and we'll see where your final score puts you on our leaderboard.

The top four places at the end of the heats

will make it through to the semifinals,

so take a look at the leaderboard as it currently stands,

and you basically need to get into the green and stay there.

If you come top at the end of today,

you can't be dislodged from the green area,

which is the all-important area.

So, good luck, all to play for.

Are you ready to play? As ready as I'll ever be.

Your time starts...now.

In which year was Queen Elizabeth II born?

1926. Correct.

For which 1996 film did Juliette Binoche win an Oscar?

Chocolat. No, The English Patient.

Which musical features the song Hernando's Hideaway?

The Man Of La Mancha. No, The Pyjama Game.

In which continent is the Iberian Peninsula?

Europe. Correct.

Which war was the setting for the TV comedy series Blackadder Goes Forth?

First World War. Correct.

In the Harry Potter books,

to which house at Hogwarts does Ron Weasley belong?

Gryffindor. Correct.

In which US state is Mount Rushmore National Memorial?

Washington. No, South Dakota.

Which Michael Jackson UK number one single features the line

"for 40 days and 40 nights the law was on her side"?

Billie Jean. Correct.

The three colours on the flag of the Czech Republic

are red, white and which other?

Blue. Correct. In which country did the cheese Emmental originate?

Holland. No, Switzerland.

Which Central American country is bordered by Honduras and Costa Rica?

Nicaragua. Correct.

The 20th-century Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin

represented which political party?

Conservative Party. Correct.

Which Charles Dickens novel features

the characters Wackford Squeers and Smike?

Nicholas Nickleby. Correct.

The fabric mohair is traditionally made from the hair

of which breed of goat?

Angora. Correct.

Which large Caribbean island is divided

between Haiti and the Dominican Republic?

Hispaniola. Correct.

In the TS Eliot poet The Wasteland, what is the cruellest month?

April. Correct.

In 1649, Charles I was beheaded in which city?

York. No, London.

In Jane Austen's Emma, what is the maiden name of the title character?

Woodhouse. Correct.

In the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M Schulz,

which character frequently carries a security blanket?

Linus. Correct.

Which musical instrument is Vanessa-Mae famous for playing?

Violin. Correct. END-OF-ROUND BUZZER

Violin is right.

So, let's see how you did.

You were storming along there for periods, you got 15 points,

which we add to the three you got earlier -

gives you a grand total of 18,

so we put your name on the leaderboard.

You're just outside the green area, so,

not enough to get into the semifinal.

The advantage of playing later

is you actually see whether you're leading,

but you've got some very stout players in there already.

Still, you won today.

And that's what I came for.

Good stuff, thanks for playing Make Me An Egghead.

Join us next time to find out who else might have what it takes

not just to become an Egghead,

but get onto that leaderboard into the top area.

Until then, goodbye.