Hard Quiz

Tonight on Hard Quiz...

Leon - Australian Tax Office trainer.

Expert subject - vintage Australian washing machines.

Mark - law student.

Expert subject - English Premier League football.

Tom - management consultant.

Expert subject - Winston Churchill.

Evelyn - admin assistant.

Expert subject - Audrey Hepburn.

Here's your host, Tom Gleeson!

Yes. We're back!

Alright, welcome to Hard Quiz.

These contestants are avocados

and I'm going to give them a bit of a squeeze.

Whoever's the ripest will be tonight's Hard Quiz champion!

Let's say hello.

G'day, Evelyn. Hi, Tom.

How are you? I'm good, thanks.

That's good to know. Yeah.

So your expert subject is Audrey Hepburn?

It is. When did you first get into her?

Ah, my mum showed me Breakfast at Tiffany's when I was 13

and then I was obsessed with her ever since.

Is that your favourite film of hers? Yes.

How many times would've you seen it?

Upwards of 20. OK.

What do you like most about it? The casual racism?

Ah, no. The costumes.

The costumes. Yes.

Mickey Rooney's costume?

No, not Mickey Rooney's costume.

Buck teeth, the squinty eyes.

It's a bit awful.

It is a bit awkward, isn't it?

I mean, Chris Lilley, he'd get away with it, but...

..not comedians who aren't racist.

Now, Tom, you're from the UK,

but now you live out at Narangba in Queensland.

That's correct.

How'd you get stuck out there?

Just moved to Brisbane, I'm married, have a family there.

Alright.

You didn't steal a loaf of bread and get sent out there, did you?

No.

Your expert subject is Winston Churchill.

Is that because you used to be in the British army?

Not really.

I was just reading some books and he kept popping up everywhere.

Yeah, he's a rather obscure figure from history.

Tends to pop up quite a bit around the World War II area I've noticed.

Mark, English Premier League football is your subject.

Yes, it is.

You're from Australia, Tom's from England,

have you made a massive mistake?

He's been sent here from England, we know he's good at stealing.

I'm just hoping he doesn't know anything about football, I guess.

Do you know anything about football?

A little. A little bit.

How far have you gone for your love of the Premier League?

So I've been to... I've been to quite a few games in England.

I've been to Old Trafford, I've been to Emirates, been to Eastlands,

or City of Manchester Stadium.

So, yeah.

So you've travelled internationally, just to watch football?

My partner's family's from the UK, so I... we go there to visit

and I travel from the house to kind of get away from the mother-in-law.

Leon. Yes, Tom.

Your expert subject is vintage Australian washing machines.

Are you taking the piss?

No. I have a collection of 67 of them.

You...

You have a collection?

I do. Yes.

You are a bona fide fruit loop, you know that, Leon, don't you?

I've been called that, yes. Yeah.

Well, how did this fascination start?

When I was of a child I used to love watching Mum,

used to love watching the machines work when I was a kid -

used to help her out.

You used to watch washing machines wash clothes?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Well... (LAUGHS)

See, I'd worry watching the Premier League, it's a low-scoring game,

it may not be action packed, but you're like, "Yes, this is great."

Backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards.

So... so for you, is a coin laundry like a gallery?

Oh, I sometimes pop into one, yes, and have a look and say,

"Ooh, what's new in here?"

When you ask for contestants,

you just never know what you're going to get.

Alright, let's play. Hard!

Win or lose five points.

Steal an answer, double points.

I'll ask each of you five questions on your expert subject.

Right - you get five points. Wrong - I take five points from you.

The rest of you can steal at any time to get double points.

To play along at home, use the hashtag, #HardQuiz.

Let's start with Leon.

And his expert subject...

..vintage Australian washing machines.

Here we go. You ready, Leon?

Let's wash.

What term can refer to both

a mechanism in a top loading washing machine and a political provocateur?

For the steal, it's Tom.

Agitator. Is correct!

Double points!

Keep an eye on your shit, Leon.

Tom's got a little sideline obsession with washing machines.

This five-minute washer was produced in the 1930s by Breville,

a company founded during the depression

to manufacture which household device?

For the steal, it's Mark.

Toasted sandwiches.

Incorrect. Toasters.

Leon. Toasters.

Incorrect. It's still open. For the steal, it's Evelyn.

Electric kettles. Incorrect.

Time's up. Smart move, Tom.

What did you say, toasted sandwiches?

I mean, like sandwich press things.

I know, but you said toasted sandwiches, it's not a device.

Do you make toasted sandwiches inside another sandwich?

Incorrect, Leon. The answer is radio.

Radio. They used to make radios.

Breville also made mine detectors, around World War II.

It's quite a wide range of things they did.

Founded in Adelaide in the 1850s and run by one family for generations

was the Simpson company.

Which natural feature is named after a Simpson company director?

For the steal, it's Mark.

Ah, the Simpson Desert. Correct.

Double points to you.

Which precursor to the washing machine

lends its name to a description of well-defined abdominal muscles?

The washboard. Correct.

Well done, Leon.

There's a photo of the washboard there on the left,

and also me on the right.

Relaunched in the late noughties,

with TV commercials featuring celebrities dressed as their mothers,

was which retro washing machine advertising slogan?

Leon. "Guess whose mum's got a Whirlpool?"

Correct.

Alright, Evelyn, you're at the bottom on -5.

Still a lot of quiz to go.

Time now for Mark and English Premier League football.

Both the Queen and Prince Harry are notable fans of Arsenal,

while Prince William is best known

as a follower of which Premier League team?

For the steal, it's Evelyn.

Aston Villa. Is correct!

With that steal, you've put yourself back on the map.

That's right, so it means the Queen is a Gooner.

Is that what they're called, a Gooner?

Yes. Oh, sorry, I was a bit disrespectful.

Um... Her Majesty is a Gooner.

Matches between the Liverpool and Everton teams

are known as what derby? Mark.

The Merseyside derby. Correct.

In a 3-0 loss to Aston Villa in 2005,

Newcastle teammates, Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer,

got into a fight with each other during the game

and were each sent off the field with what punishment?

Time's up. Red card.

Oh. That was how simple the question was.

Years later, Dyer spoke of his surprise at the incident,

telling a local newspaper, and I'm not making this up,

"I didn't know you could get sent off for fighting with your own teammate."

David Beckham won his sixth Premier League title with Manchester United

within a year of the release of which film starring Parminder Nagra

and titled in his honour? Mark.

Bend It Like Beckham. Correct.

Last question in your set, Mark.

In a term added to the Collins English Dictionary in 2005,

the tense final stages of a League competition

were described by legendary manager... Mark.

"Squeaky bum time." Correct.

Described by legendary manager Alex Ferguson as squeaky what time?

Bum time. I suspect some of you might be feeling that now.

Next set of questions is for Tom on Winston Churchill.

After the rejection of his first budget in 1886,

Winston Churchill's father, Lord Randolph Churchill,

resigned from what chief financial ministerial position? Tom.

Chancellor of the Exchequer. Correct.

Lord Randolph didn't expect his resignation to be accepted. It was.

In 1900, Churchill was elected to parliament on his second attempt,

just six months after his escape as a prisoner of war in what conflict?

Second Boer War. Correct.

Churchill had been prime minister for less than a month

when he made his speech, "We shall fight on the beaches,"

in the aftermath of what evacuation? Tom.

Dunkirk. Correct.