Eggheads (TV Series) - Notable Episodes

Notable Episodes

• On 24 October 2008, The London Rollergirls became the first team ever to win every head-to-head round, giving them a five to one advantage against the sole remaining Egghead, Kevin, in the final General Knowledge round. However, Kevin managed to spare the Eggheads' blushes and won the game by himself denying the contestants £12,000.
• On 1 December 2008, Act One - the Drama Society from Cardiff University - beat the Eggheads in the final episode before the introduction of a sixth Egghead. The team defeated Kevin and CJ in the final round when the Eggheads failed to identify which London restaurant Tony & Cherie Blair took the Clintons on their visit to the UK in 1997. The following episode was the first to feature "Are You An Egghead" winner, Barry Simmons.
• The same situation that the London Rollergirls faced on 24 October was to happen again on 3 December 2008 when the Eggheads were challenged by The Golf Roses who were administrators of the English Women's Amateur Golf Association. Once again, Kevin came to the rescue of the Eggheads and won the game by himself. The winning 'pot' would have been £2,000.
• On 27 January 2009, new Egghead Barry was left to take on Official Retrievers, a team from The Insolvency Service, on his own. He again saved the Eggheads' reputation, and the challengers missed out on winning £21,000.
• On 21 April 2009, The Honey Badgers managed to win every head-to-head round. This time Daphne saved the day for the Eggheads, and by only needing to answer two questions correctly in the final round, denied The Honey Badgers £19,000.
• On 11 September 2009, Forty Winks won every head-to-head round. Barry was left as the sole Egghead remaining in the final round and managed to hold off the challenging team, winning in sudden death, and stopping them from winning £3,000.
• On 13 April 2010, a show featuring the Con Artists, a team of Conservatives, was postponed at the last minute, as it would have been going out right after a party political broadcast. It was shown a few months later and the Tories lost.
• On 23 November 2011, The Bookends from Leeds also managed to win every head-to-head round, this time leaving Daphne as the sole remaining Egghead in the final round. However, she won the game by herself denying the contestants £1,000.
• On 16 January 2012, The Tramlines (also known as The Dude Abides) beat Eggheads. They had already won on STV's Postcode Challenge, Channel 4's Quiz Trippers and had won the Belhaven East of Scotland championship. Maxwell Thomson, who was in the team for all those events, took his own life two days after the programme was shown. This episode was taken off the BBC's iPlayer service earlier than normal, probably because of this.
• On 24 August 2012, the team Lightning Can Strike Twice beat the Eggheads. One member of their team, Michael McPartland, had previously beaten Kevin and Pat in the Last Man Standing Competition at the 2011 World Quiz Championship - hence the team name, referring to the fact that 'lightning would strike twice' if they beat the Eggheads. Despite the other four members of his team losing their head to head rounds, Michael showed that 'lightning can strike twice' by becoming the tenth person to beat all 5 Eggheads on his own.

The show has occasionally had well known people on the challenger teams. Multi-World Darts Champion Phil Taylor has appeared, as well as the England Women's Cricket Team, England Women's Squash Team, a team from the stage musical Avenue Q (including Daniel Boys), PR consultant Lynne Franks, entrepreneur Rachel Elnaugh, Chris Moyles Show quizmaster Rob DJ, and reality TV celebrities such as Eugene Sully and Jade Goody. Former Chelsea and England under 21 footballer David Lee appeared on an instalment of series 12, broadcast 25 May 2011.

The British Bee Keepers Association (BBA) are the only team to appear twice. They were invited back to the show after a mistake was made in the Final - on the third multiple choice question to the Eggheads. The question asked was "In 1979, who became the first western rock star to play in the old Soviet Union?" The programme makers believed the correct answer was Elton John. Viewers to the show informed them that Cliff Richard had played earlier in 1976. BBA failed to beat the Eggheads on both occasions.