Episode 28 Revenge of the Egghead

These five contestants are hoping to walk away thousands of pounds richer.

Standing in their way is one of the most formidable quizzers to

grace the Eggheads team, CJ de Mooi.

This is Revenge of the Egghead.

Hello and welcome to Revenge of the Egghead.

Let's meet the five contestants hoping to get one over on CJ today.

I'm Geoff, I'm a retired station assistant, and I'm from Harrow.

Hi, I'm Donna and I'm a housewife from Buckinghamshire.

I'm Paul, I'm a product development manager, and I'm from Maidstone.

I'm Julie, I'm an export business executive,

and I'm from Groomsport in County Down.

I'm Clint, a mortgage advisor from Bradford.

Well, welcome, good luck to you all.

As you know, in order to win any money today,

you will need to outsmart CJ de Mooi, which is not easy.

How are you today, CJ?

Very confident, thank you, Jeremy.

You've been, I gather, mugging up on a topic, have you?

I always try and look at topics that I think may come up in quizzes

and today was one of those perennial quiz favourites,

second cities, so I've been concentrating on Africa.

So, if I were to give you an African country like Botswana,

you could tell me the second city?

Give me an easy one, why don't you?!

Uh, Botswana, the capital is Gaborone,

the second city is Francistown.

Well, he's right, so let's get started.

Contestants, none of you know each other,

but you'll be building up a prize fund together by individually

answering general knowledge questions.

Now, each correct answer will add £200 to the pot,

but be very, very careful,

because if CJ knows your answer is wrong, he can stop play like this...

BUZZER

..and once he's caught you out, he then has the chance to

knock you out by asking you one of his own questions.

If you get it wrong, then you lose one of

the two lives in front of you there.

If you lose them both then you will be out of the game. Is that clear?

However many of you survive to the end of the game will then

have a shot at sharing the prize money you've banked in the final.

So, let's play.

And we'll start with you, Geoff, with your first question. OK?

Which art gallery is housed in

the former Bankside Power Station in London?

That would be the Tate Modern.

Tate Modern is absolutely right.

Well done, both your lives intact. There's £200.

-Donna!

-Hi!

-Here's your question.

Which word beginning with S is the name of the brown pigment

secreted by cuttlefish and squid?

Sepia.

Well done! Bang on. CJ, would you have known that?

Of course I knew that.

So, £400. You've both got £200. Paul, we move to you.

Who shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with FW de Klerk?

Is that Nelson Mandela?

Nelson Mandela is correct, so another £200 is added, £600.

OK, Julie, here's your question.

The word "spasibo" means thank you in which language?

That would be Russian.

Russian is correct. £800 you're up to. Here is your question, Clint.

What relation was the artist Lucian Freud

to the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud?

-None.

-None, you're saying?

-Yes.

-No relation.

CJ hasn't buzzed. You don't know the answer to this?

-I don't, no.

-Well, none is incorrect.

-He was his grandson.

-Oh! That's what I thought it was and I wasn't sure!

I'm afraid that is the incorrect answer, Clint.

You don't add any money to the bank,

but the good news is that CJ didn't call you out,

which means that your lives stay intact, you've still got two lives.

-Thank you.

-All right, you're doing well, team, you're on £800.

Geoff, we're back to you with your question.

Mr Knightly is a character in which Jane Austen novel?

I'm guessing that's Pride and Prejudice.

-You say Pride and Prejudice. No buzz from CJ. You're wrong.

-Ah!

-The answer is Emma.

-Ah!

So, no money added to your team's total, but because CJ didn't

trump you with a correct answer, you keep your two lives.

-You with us, CJ?

-It's chick lit, who cares?

THEY LAUGH

OK, Donna, your question.

Pittodrie Stadium is the home of which Scottish football club?

Aberdeen?

Aberdeen is correct. £200 more, up to £1,000. Paul, your question.

What was the first name of the 16th century statesman Cardinal Wolsey?

John.

BUZZER

OK, John is your answer. CJ has buzzed.

I prefer Thomas.

Thomas is the correct answer and this time CJ did catch you out,

so you'll have to answer one of his specially designed

questions from our Hot Spot.

These are particularly tricky, these questions,

cos he's written them himself.

It is time to face the Egghead.

I suspect it's no fun being up there.

-Someone's got to go first.

-CJ.

Um, it's not a great question for me. I'll say Zachary Taylor.

CJ?

Johnson was his vice president.

So, Andrew Johnson is the correct answer. I'm sorry, Paul.

CJ has done it. He's smart and he knows it.

Please rejoin your fellow contestants.

Paul, you had two lives. We're going to have to put one out.

CJ caught you out and you didn't answer his question correctly.

You still have £1,000 in the bank, players.

OK, Julie, we're coming to you.

Which singer released his 100th album in 2013?

Rod Stewart.

BUZZER

CJ has buzzed.

Cliff Richard.

-Cliff Richard is the right answer. Rod Stewart is wrong, Julie.

-Oh!

So, I'm sorry, because he's caught you out on your wrong answer,

I have to ask you now to go to the Hot Spot and face one of his

specially designed questions which he's written himself.

It's time to take on the Egghead.

All right, you're facing CJ. Don't be too alarmed.

I'm going to go for Mali.

Why on earth would you go for Mali?

Well, I know it's not Ethiopia

-and I don't know the answer to the other two.

-CJ?

Are you disappointed here or pleased?

Well, with a one in three chance, there's always a chance

of getting it right, and, unfortunately, you have done.

-Well done.

-Oh, brilliant!

-Please rejoin your fellow contestants.

-Thank you.

I sense that was not in the script, CJ.

You thought you had a stinker there.

Well, I did have a stinker, she just blind guessed it!

SHE LAUGHS

You got £1,000 in the bank so far. Your question, Clint.

What is the English name for the Pacific Island known as Rapa Nui?

Oh!

Sorry, no.

-Nothing?

-No.

BUZZER

CJ, do you know?

Easter Island.

Easter Island is the answer you should have given, Clint.

So, you're going to have to answer one of CJ's own questions now.

If you go to the Hot Spot, it is time to take on the Egghead.

I'm sensing things turning back in CJ's direction.

Clint...

Ernest Hemingway.

-You pulled it straight out there. From your memory or...?

-Erm...

A glimmer of something?

Yeah, it's just one of the ones I mainly knew, really.

Well, we had one blind guess out of three,

and this is a blind guess out of four,

and I'm mortified to say it's had the same result.

-It's Ernest Hemingway.

-James, you are right, it was Ernest Hemingway.

-Well done.

-Thank you!

-Please return to the other players.

So, how about that? Julie and Clint,

right in the jaws of death there!

We go back to you, Geoff. Here's your question.

Which day of the week is often said to be named after

the wife of the Norse god Odin?

-Friday.

-Friday is quite right.

Now, the £200 goes into the pot.

£1,200 now, you're playing really well.

Donna, the Aswan High Dam was built on which river?

The Niger?

-The Niger is your answer.

-BUZZER

CJ has buzzed to correct you.

Ooh, I thought you were going to get it there. It's the Nile.

-I almost thought I heard Nile.

-Oh, no!

The Nile is the right answer, so, now, you are going to have to

face one of CJ's specially designed questions from the Hot Spot.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

-Go for it. CJ, what have you got?

-Donna, you are going to love this.

I believe that's Counting Stars.

Counting Stars was indeed a UK number one in 2013,

-but not by Martin Garrix.

-Oh, no!

-It's Animals.

-Oh!

-I was...you said that with such conviction!

-I really hoped...!

Donna, I'm sorry. Please return to the other players.

Well, that was...you said it with such conviction,

-I was certain you were right.

-So was I.

So, you're on £1,200, but, Donna, you go down to one life.

You lost a life there because CJ caught you out.

Paul, we're back with you. Here's your question.

Which physician did Plato refer to as the Asclepiad of Kos?

A few things going round in my head. Is it, um...?

-Hippocrates?

-Hippocrates is the right answer.

He was...his hand was hovering over the button there.

£1,400 you're up to now, so,

you're playing really, really well. Julie, your question.

What is the surname of Tintin's bearded sea captain friend

in the books by Herge?

Smith.

BUZZER

-Oh, dear! Smith!

-It's a good guess.

One in 650 people in Britain are named Smith...

but this is Captain Haddock.

It is Captain Haddock. You obviously haven't read the books?

Aw! Well, he's an unforgettable character.

It's time to take on the Egghead.

Julie, if it's any consolation,

so far your team has been playing very well from the Hot Spot. CJ.

Oh, this is celebrated more in England

than it is in Northern Ireland.

I don't think it's February cos you've got Valentine's Day there,

I don't think it's November.

Something's drawing me towards July, but I don't know why.

I hope it's right.

-Is that your answer? July.

-It's got to be.

-OK. July, CJ?

-I really don't like her.

-Great!

-It's July.

-How about that, Julie?

-That was brilliant.

-You kept both your lives

and you can go back to join your fellow contestants.

Thank you very much.

Well, well, well. So, £1,400 and only two lives lost.

Clint, your question coming now.

The Vuelta a Espana is an event in which sport?

Basketball.

BUZZER

CJ has buzzed. Basketball?

Tour of Spain, cycling.

Cycling is the right answer. Because he's corrected you,

you have to go back to the Hot Spot, Clint, I'm afraid.

It's time to take on the Eggheads.

-You're making a habit of this!

-Yes, yes.

-Clint.

-Yes.

Right, OK, well, it's not Leona.

Uh, it's not Kate Nash.

It's Lily Allen.

Oh, you again sound certain about that. CJ?

Yes.

It's the right answer. It's the right answer, Clint.

Please return to the other players.

CJ, what were you doing, choosing that question for Clint?

Can't you tell he's into his pop music?

Shall we say, he's not of the age I thought he'd be interested.

Ooh!

OK, £1,400.

Geoff, your question.

Leanne Mitchell was the first winner of which TV singing contest?

I'm going to say...

the X Factor.

BUZZER

You say the X Factor. CJ wants to correct you.

Well, I don't know this, but I know the one it isn't,

so I'll go for the one that's left and say The Voice.

Yes, it is The Voice, Geoff, not the X Factor.

So, you're going to have to take one of CJ's

specially designed questions.

It's time to take on the Egghead.

You've done rather well so far, Geoff,

just quietly answering your questions there. You've not even

-been challenged yet, so let's see.

-Geoff...

It's not Martin Amis. He's been around too long, I feel.

Um, I'm going to plunge in and say Iain Banks.

Thank goodness for that! It's Ian McEwan!

So, you're wrong, Geoff. Iain Banks is the wrong answer.

Ian McEwan is the right answer.

You're going to lose a life. Please return to the other players.

We have to knock out one of your orange lights, Geoff.

Three of you have lost a life. Julie and Clint, doing really well.

£1,400. Donna, your question.

Which two-word Latin phrase is usually translated as time flies?

A diem? BUZZER

-A diem.

-No, it's not!

-A diem, CJ?

-Tempus fugit.

-Oh, yeah.

-So, it is tempus fugit.

It's time to take on the Egghead.

If you get this answer wrong,

-we will have to say goodbye.

-Donna...

Vitamin C, I think, was scurvy,

they used to call it.

Iodine, I've not heard of a disease linked with it.

Both the others would be vital. I'm going to plump for vitamin B1.

Now, if you get this one wrong, Donna, you will be out of the game.

Let's see.

The answer is vitamin B1.

-SHE SIGHS

-Vitamin B1 is the right answer,

your life has been spared. You've managed to

fight him off very successfully here.

So, we say well done and you can

-rejoin the fellow contestants.

-Thank you.

I wouldn't have known that!

-That was brilliant.

-I didn't!

Paul, which gas has the formula CH4?

Um...

that'd be methane.

Methane is right. Another £200. 1,600 you're on.

Julie, the blue faced alien race known as the Na'vi

appear in which science fiction film?

That would be Avatar.

-Avatar is right.

-Yay!

You've got £1,800. You're playing really, really well.

You're not allowing him too much of a look-in.

Clint, which poem by Shelley contains the line,

"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair?"

Whispering Willow.

BUZZER

-Go on, CJ!

-Not quite! Not quite!

I'll tell you what, I'm only laughing cos you said it with

such conviction, I didn't think you were going to...

-So, you're buzzing, you know the answer, do you?

-It's Ozymandias.

Ozymandias. Clint, you've got to take on one of his questions.

It's time to take on the Egghead.

-Now, you have two lives left, Clint. CJ.

-Clint...

Uh...retriever.

Retriever is your answer. CJ?

No!

-Ah!

-You have got it wrong and it's...

remarkably, one of your questions has now hit the target.

-It finally worked out, didn't it?!

-CJ...

It's a spaniel, Clint.

Clint, the answer is spaniel, so you're going to lose a life.

Please return to the other players.

You had two lives. You've kept those lives for a remarkably long time.

We are going to take one off you now. You've still got a life left.

Geoff, we go back to you. Here's your question.

Davy Crockett died at which famous battle in 1836?

That would be the Alamo.

Battle of the Alamo is right. So, you're doing really well.

£2,000 now. Donna,

Margaretha Zelle, who was executed in World War I for espionage

is better known by what name?

-Mata Hari.

-Mata Hari is the right answer.

Very well done. £2,200 now. Paul, your question.

Who is the patron saint of mountaineers?

-Saint Christopher.

-Saint Christopher is your answer.

CJ looks...

-worried!

-I have to be honest,

that's what I would have gone for cos I don't know this.

I think you've got to think of the dog here. It's Saint Bernard.

Saint Bernard is the patron saint of mountaineers.

So, you got it wrong, but, because CJ didn't correct you,

you do not have to go to the Hot Spot.

The klaxon could go at any moment. Julie, your question.

The Thirty-nine Steps is a book by which author?

I read this at school.

John Buchanan.

BUZZER

-One syllable too many!

-That is cruel! That is a cruel buzz, CJ.

-Say it to us again.

-That's one syllable too long, Julie.

-It's John Buchan.

-Oh!

-John Buchan.

You added an "an." It is time to take on the Egghead.

You're the only player with two lives left intact, so, even if you

get this wrong, you'll still be in the game and there's nothing better

-than making him cross.

-Well, Julie...

-Have you see this, Julie?

-I haven't see the film, but,

out of the options, I'm almost sure

Brad Pitt is in the trailer, so I'm going to go for Brad Pitt.

Brad Pitt is the answer.

Brad Pitt is indeed in the trailer,

but so is Javier Bardem and Michael Fassbender and the counsellor is

Michael Fassbender.

Oh!

That was rotten of you, CJ.

Julie, you have got the answer wrong.

Please return to the other players.

You still have £2,200, contestants, that you've amassed,

but, Julie, we're going to knock out one of your lives now.

CJ caught you out. Clint, we go back to you with your next question.

Here we go. Who was the first man

to fly the Atlantic solo in an aeroplane?

Um, Charles Lindenberg.

BUZZER

I'm afraid that's another extra syllable. That's Charles Lindbergh.

HE SIGHS

So, you've gone Buchan, Buchanan, Lindenberg...

Lindbergh.

That's the way he plays, no quarter given.

It's time to take on the Egghead.

So, everyone's now got just the one life. Clint, you only have one life.

You get this wrong, you're out. CJ.

I don't think it's Andrew Marvell.

Um, John Keats.

Is Keats correct?

"No man is an island, entire of itself,"

are the first two lines of short poem.

The last lines are, "And therefore never send to know for whom

"the bell tolls, it tolls for thee."

The most famous work by...

-John Donne.

-So, Clint, I'm sorry,

CJ got you onto the Hot Spot, asked you a question

you didn't know. He has now knocked out a contestant.

The Egghead has had his revenge.

You could at least hide your pleasure a bit.

-Oh, I don't think so! Have you not met me before, Jeremy?

-So...

-KLAXON

-..it might...

-That means we've asked the final question.

-Whoa!

I was about to start another question,

but we have run out of time for questions.

Four of you have survived to play in the final.

You've built up a prize pot now of £2,200,

and you have the chance to take that money home. There is one problem.

You've got to beat the Egghead.

Well, players, you've survived the first stage here.

There is £2,200 up for grabs. You've done really well so far.

You've lost Clint as well.

If you can prove yourselves better than CJ, you'll win the money,

but he's going to do everything he can to stop you.

I'm going to ask CJ ten general knowledge questions.

How many he answers correctly will become your target to beat, OK?

So, CJ, how are you feeling?

A little bit annoyed, I mean, Donna and Julie are only there

because of blind guesses on more than one occasion on the Hot Spot.

So, the team really should be a lot smaller,

-but, um, I don't think I'll have any problems, to be honest.

-Let's play.

CJ, your ten questions start with this one.

Lillie Langtry was the mistress of which British king?

Edward VII.

Edward VII is correct. One out of one.

Who captained the England rugby union team between 1988 and 1996?

Will Carling.

Will Carling is correct, two out of two.

Which form of food poisoning takes its name from the Latin for sausage?

Salmonella.

That's wrong, CJ. It's botulism. OK, this is good news.

Two out of three now for CJ, the first slip up.

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in which constellation?

-It's in Orion.

-Orion is right. Three out of four.

Which papier-mache headed comic character was

created by Chris Sievey in 1984?

Frank Sidebottom.

Frank Sidebottom is the right answer. Good answer.

Four out of five. Your next question.

The Austrian-born impresario Rudolf Bing helped to found which

British festival in 1947?

Bayreuth?

-That's not a British festival, is it?

-It isn't, is it?

Edinburgh Festival.

Four out of six, CJ.

Your question, who did Michael Sheen play in the film The Damned United?

I was just making sure I got the first name right,

cos I had Nigel in my head, but that's his son.

It's Brian Clough.

Brian Clough is the right answer. You've got five out of seven.

Mimi and Rodolfo are leading characters in which opera?

-Ah, La Boheme.

-La Boheme is the right answer.

Six out of eight. Playing well, I have to say it.

Which national currency is divided into 100 kopecks?

-The rouble.

-The rouble is correct.

You've got seven out of nine, here's your 10th question.

Which composer died on the 26th March 1827 in Vienna

at the age of 56?

Born in 1770 in Bonn...

Beethoven.

-I need the full name to give you the right answer.

-Ludwig van Beethoven.

Ludwig van Beethoven is the right answer.

CJ, you've managed to score eight out of ten.

-Are you pleased with that?

-I would have been happier with nine.

Four people's quite a lot with four lives.

This is touch and go, this one.

Right, Geoff, Donna, Paul and Julie,

you have your target

and you can now work together as a team to beat CJ's score of eight.

Now, the great thing from your point of view is this,

you've got four lives remaining between you.

Give me an incorrect answer and you lose a life.

If you beat CJ's target before you've lost all your lives, you win.

-It's as simple as that. Shall we play?

-Yes.

-Here we go.

First question, who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 2013?

-Was it...?

-Justin Welby.

-Justin Welby.

-I'll go with that, yeah.

-Go with that.

Was that Justin Welby?

Justin Welby is correct. First answer correct, well done.

Nighthawks is a 1942 painting by which artist?

Nighthawks?

-Uh...

-Do we have any names?

-1942 was what...wartime, wasn't it?

-Sargent?

-Go ahead.

-Go with it.

-Yeah.

John Singer Sargent?

It's not John Singer Sargent. Do you know?

-Edward Hopper.

-Edward Hopper is the right answer.

-Ahh!

So, you go down to three lives now. £2,200 we're playing for.

Cranking and stroking are methods of playing which sport?

Is it the ice one?

-Curling?

-Is it curling?

Stroking...they sound like they could be.

-They crank the ice, don't they?

-Working it up.

-Can you think of any others?

-I've heard stroke as in golf, but

I've never heard of any cranking.

You don't crank in golf, well, you might be cranky afterwards

if you lose.

-Go for it.

-Yeah?

-Yeah, try it.

-Is it curling?

It's not, it's ten pin bowling.

-You lose another life.

-ALL: Oh, no!

You need to get nine to win £2,200. You have two lives left.

Here we go. In 1999, who became the UK's first Children's Laureate?

-Oh, God!

-Jackie...?

Yes, for the books about the girl?

-Tracy...

-Yeah, Tracy Beaker.

In 1999.

I think it could be right.

I haven't got anything better, if you want to go with that, Geoff.

-Are we going to go with that?

-Yeah.

-We're going to say Jackie Wilson.

Jackie Wilson who wrote the Tracy Beaker and all that.

-Do you know this?

-Her name's Jacqueline,

but, yeah, Jackie Wilson.

-It's the wrong answer.

-Oh!

Quentin Blake.

ALL: Oh!

It could have been Jacqueline Wilson, but it wasn't.

She actually was a Children's Laureate, but in 2005.

-Oh!

-That's one for your memory banks, CJ.

-Yes, well, I knew that, Jeremy.

So, you lose another life, so you've got one life left.

We gave you some slack with those lives, it's being rapidly used up.

Here's your next question. What was the nickname of the plane

in which Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947?

-Is...?

-I don't know any plane names, just Grey Goose.

We're going to have to guess, aren't we?

-Grey Goose was one, wasn't it?

-1947.

Grey Goose was the only name which I think was a plane and it was

to do with speed, but I can't think of any other plane names.

1940s...I've never even heard of Chuck Yeager.

Shall we just go with it?

-Yeah. Sorry, guys, I couldn't help much.

-No, we don't know. Grey Goose.

Grey Goose.

If it's wrong, the game is over, you will have lost your last life.

It's an interesting answer, because the two Gs are correct.

-Something in your mind...

-ALL: Oh, no!

Something in your mind was maybe triggering the answer,

but the actual answer...

is Glamorous Glennis.

THEY SIGH

I'm afraid to say, Challengers, you have lost your last life.

Not an easy one and it does mean that you are now...all those

lives extinguished, the game is over, you have lost.

Well, congratulations, CJ. I'm not sure how that happened,

cos your questions just misfired from the start.

Well, they did very well with their guesses,

but, I think, even with the collection in the final round,

those questions were always going to put paid to them,

so I was never worried, of course.

Well, we have to say, reluctantly, congratulations, CJ.

You have shown us why you are an Egghead.

Join us again next time when CJ will be doing his utmost to crush

another five contestants on Revenge of the Egghead. Goodbye.