What's In Your CD Player/iPod/MP3/Computer/Hi Fi, Right Now?

Lena & Harry Smith · Post by **Lena & Harry Smith** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:07 am

Yes, we were watching the Eggheads, and we are told that this question regularly pops up in pub quizzes up and down the country, but we can't ever recall hearing it on any other tv quiz.

john · Post by **john** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:11 pm

Listening to Jerry Vale now singing "Old Cape Cod", lovely song, and I know is a favourite of Harry's.

mariana44 · Post by **mariana44** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:02 am

I have had it come up in a quiz---but as the first number one in the very first chart, as I recall.

jon · Post by **jon** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:14 am

Here's another one: yesterday on "Eggheads" the Eggheads themselves actually LOST the game with their answer to the following question:

Which TV quiz show host is the subject of an urban myth that he played the saxophone solo on Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street". I knew the answer and couldn't believe the Eggheads didn't!

Marian · Post by **Marian** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:28 am

I watched this show too yesterday, and I was AMAZED the girls team actually won the money - Â£16.000, as they seemed to have such lack of knowledge, for University students in particular. The fact that only one of them survived to face the Eggheads in the final round seems to back up that fact, but she went on to beat all five Eggheads, apparently the first time it had ever been done.

Marian

jon · Post by **jon** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:36 pm

Hi Marian

Like you, I thought the girls were very lucky to win and really shouldn't have done, but this will sometimes happen when the questions fall the wrong way. I agree that, for university students, they seemed remarkably ignorant: a History student, for example, saying that Julius Caesar was assassinated "on the battlefiield" as opposed to "in the Senate House", and the sole girl contestant at the end thinking that a nosegay consists of "feathers" and not "flowers".

But I was even more amazed that the Eggheads didn't get the answer to the last question right as they contain some formidable quiz players, especially Kevin, who is three times World Quiz Champion and eight times British Quiz Champion and has numerous other accolades to his credit. I think Jeremy Vine said it was in fact the third time the Eggheads had been defeated by a single challenger.

john · Post by **john** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:13 pm

Yes, I think Jeremy did say it was the third time the eggheads had been defeated by just one person.

Marian · Post by **Marian** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:17 pm

Oh well, now my hearing is going as well as my other faculties..
time marches on

Marian

Marian · Post by **Marian** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:25 pm

For some strange reason I couldn't edit my posting above, stating I could only edit my own posts, which is what I was trying to do!
Anyway, what I was going to add was the boys the previous day were a so much better informed team and gave intelligent answers.
I thought the girls should have been referred to as the 'Airheads' as opposed to the Eggheads.
I didn't know the last answer the Eggheads stumbled on Jon, but I do now.

Marian

Lena & Harry Smith · Post by **Lena & Harry Smith** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:25 am

We douldn't believe that the Eggheads didn't know this either

they gave Hughie Green as their answer, but they still say the standard phrase.... Can They Be Beaten.

mariana44 · Post by **mariana44** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:46 am

It just goes to prove---you do not have to be clever---just lucky !!!

Marian · Post by **Marian** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:58 am

A bit of both would be nice!

Marian

mariana44 · Post by **mariana44** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 12:25 pm

That is very true !!

Lena & Harry Smith · Post by **Lena & Harry Smith** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:11 pm

I'm preferring Jeremy Vine as quizmaster. Dermot was driving me nuts with his hesitant replies and often un-necessarily repeating the entire question again.

i'll have to go for some kind of calming or relaxation therapy.

Anyone been watching the earlier Eggheads. This is to find another winner worthy to join the Eggheads team.

Marian · Post by **Marian** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 4:55 pm

Yes, we've been watching Lena. I see Dermot has moved home to present this show for the time being. I did hear he was going to share Eggheads with Jeremy Vine.
Do you know if the newly chosen Egghead will take the place of one of the regulars or will be an addition to the team?
Marian