Episode 1 Revenge of the Egghead

These 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 Spencer. I'm a theatre company manager, and I'm from Northampton.

I'm Tony. I'm an energy demand forecaster, and I'm from London.

I'm Mark. I'm a payroll assistant, and I'm from Berkshire.

I'm Alannah. I'm currently training to be a solicitor

and I'm from Glasgow.

I'm Andrew. I'm a service desk analyst, and I'm from Coventry.

Welcome, and good luck to all of you.

Now, as you know, in order to win any money today,

you need to outsmart CJ de Mooi over here.

So, you've been, as always, revising on something between shows.

-Absolutely, yes.

-That's what you do.

-What is it this time?

-A subject very close to my heart - Miss Worlds.

-Miss Worlds?

-Doing the whole list, yeah.

-So going back over the years,

-working out which countries won and all that?

-Yeah.

So if I said 2013, what are the most recent ones?

-The most recent winner was from the Philippines.

-OK.

Any notable years that stand out for a quizzer like you?

One of the ones that I've had in a quiz before, actually,

was 1975, and the winner is now Lady Forsyth-Johnson,

or as she was known then, Wilnelia Merced,

because she's Bruce Forsyth's wife.

-Ah!

-Miss Puerto Rico, as she was, becoming Miss World.

OK. Well, thank you. I don't know if that will come up.

I suspect not, but you never know.

What do you think of the line-up you're facing here, CJ?

The very definition of the word "easy".

Oh, dear, now the stakes are high.

You have to prove him wrong, players. OK?

He never really smiles unless he wins. That's the thing about CJ.

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.

Each correct answer will add £200 to the pot.

But be very careful, because if CJ knows your answer is wrong,

he can stop play like this.

BUZZER

So he hits his red buzzer.

And once he has done that and caught you out,

he then has the chance to ask you a particularly difficult question,

which he slaved over all night writing.

If you get it wrong, you will lose one of those two lives

that are lit up on the desk in front of you.

If you lose them both, you are out of the game.

Whoever survives to the end of the game

will have a shot at sharing the prize money. Shall we begin?

Yeah.

Spencer, you have the first question.

Which actress starred in the films Speed and The Blind Side?

I have no idea.

BUZZER

-That's good enough for me.

-Well, he was still thinking, CJ.

-He said he had no idea!

-Anything come to you there?

-No idea.

-OK. CJ?

-Sandra Bullock.

I'm afraid to say Sandra Bullock is the right answer.

I'm sorry, Spencer, CJ has caught you out early in the game,

which means you have to take your place on the Hot Spot

and face one of his multiple-choice questions

and risk losing one of those

precious lives of yours.

These are particularly tricky, these questions,

because he has written them himself.

It is time to face the Egghead.

-So, Spencer, you're a theatre company manager?

-Yes.

Have you seen anything of CJ on-stage?

CJ has got a whole stage career going on.

No, but I heard he was very, very good this year.

That won't actually help here.

-Ingratiating yourself with CJ does not work.

-Spencer...

Any direct knowledge of these areas, Spencer, at all?

None at all. But I'll have an educated guess at ice hockey.

The correct answer is ski jumping.

So you're going to lose a life. Please return

to your fellow players.

Spencer, it started badly here. You've lost a life.

Let's see what you can do, Tony.

How many carats is pure gold?

24.

24 is correct. £200 for the players.

Mark, Tirana is the capital of which European country?

Albania.

Albania is right.

Another £200. 400.

Alannah, how many senators make up the US Senate?

52. BUZZER

52, CJ?

Two per state, which is 100.

Yes, it is 100, so I am afraid he has correctly called you out there,

which means he can ask you one of his specially written

questions and you risk losing a life.

It is time, Alannah, to take on the Egghead.

OK, good luck here. Face him down.

Alannah...

I'll say ballet.

The answer is wrestling.

I'm sorry, Alannah, you're going to lose a life.

Please return to your fellow players.

Alannah, you lose a life.

So where are we? £400 you've built up.

Two lives lost. Andrew, you haven't even played yet.

I'll give you your question now.

On a London Underground map,

which line is represented by the colour brown?

Circle.

-BUZZER

-The Circle line. CJ has buzzed.

-Bakerloo.

-It is the Bakerloo line, but you're from Coventry, aren't you?

I am, yes. The Underground isn't there yet.

Yes, it's not...

-Doesn't quite go up that far!

-Not quite.

Oh, dear, CJ has got it right,

and you're going to have to face him on the Hot Spot.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

Andrew...

The trouble with poets is we know them all by their surnames,

and they don't seem to give us a lot more than that.

All possibilities, admittedly. Erm... We'll try William.

The correct answer is George.

So it was Lord George Byron. Andrew, you're going to lose a life.

Please return to your fellow players.

Well, Andrew,

I have to take one of your lives away.

I know you will not be happy

next time you see the name of Lord Byron.

Spencer, your question.

In 1958, who became the youngest ever chess grandmaster?

I think it was Boris somebody. Erm...

I don't know. Boris...

-BUZZER ..Molotov.

-Boris Molotov. CJ.

-You're obviously thinking of Boris Spassky...

-That's it.

..but in this instance, for coming sixth in the Portoroz Interzonal

and qualifying for the World Championship cycle,

it was Bobby Fischer.

He knows stuff, doesn't he? So he's got it right and you got it wrong.

You have to go on the Hot Spot again

and risk losing your last life.

Spencer, it is time to take on the Egghead.

Spencer...

It wouldn't be three. Four...

I'll go for six.

The correct answer...

-is four.

-Oh!

So another wrong answer, Spencer, and unfortunately,

that was your last life.

Thanks for playing,

but you are now out of the money and out of the game.

The Egghead has taken his revenge.

OK, where are we? Tony, £400 you're on.

Here's your question.

Which Verdi opera is the story of an Ethiopian princess held

captive by Egyptians?

Hmm, you had me at "Verdi opera".

Erm, Madame Butterfly.

-BUZZER

-Madame Butterfly, CJ.

Trying to imagine Madame Butterfly set in Egypt. It's Aida.

Aida is the correct answer. He's got it right, you got it wrong.

You'll have to face him on the Hot Spot.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

CJ, look at Tony. What kind of question are you thinking of?

An easy one, because it won't make any difference! Tony...

Any clues, any glimmers?

I'm not much of an expert on horses, I have to say.

Oh, I'm sorry, would you like another question?

-I'm terribly sorry(!)

-Have you got anything?

No, the croup has got to be...

..the shoulder.

The shoulder. And you say that with conviction.

It's the rump.

Oh, dear, what's happening here?

Tony, you're wrong, it's the rump. You lose a life.

Please return to your fellow players.

So, I'm afraid I have to take one of the lights off

the front of the desk. You're down to one life.

Players, you're on £400 in total.

Let's add a bit to the pot. Mark, your question.

Who plays the role of Gloria Gaines in the 2013 film The Butler?

Kate Winslet.

-BUZZER

-Kate Winslet, but CJ has buzzed.

It's one of these great ensemble pieces.

I actually took care to learn the entire cast list of this.

-It's Oprah Winfrey.

-It is Oprah Winfrey.

Well, Mark, you have got two lives, but one is now in danger.

You're going to have to take on the Egghead.

It's a hard-fought game, this, but I'm fearing for you here.

-Just stay confident. CJ.

-How about a bit of music, Mark?

Korean, obviously, Asian.

I'm thinking more stringed instruments,

so I'm thinking pluck it.

The answer is...

blow it.

Just like your chances.

The answer is blow it, Mark.

Please return to your fellow players.

Oh! So, Mark,

one of your lights has to go out now.

You're still on £400, players.

Alannah, the River Amazon flows into which ocean?

I think it's the Atlantic Ocean.

Atlantic Ocean is the right answer. Well done.

Another £200.

£600 we're on.

Andrew, "If you build it, he will come,"

is a quote from which Kevin Costner film?

Field Of Dreams.

Field Of Dreams is correct.

Another 200. 800. Tony, back to you.

The Hang Seng is the main stock market index of which city?

Er, Beijing.

BUZZER

-Beijing. CJ?

-Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is the correct answer, Tony, not Beijing.

So he has caught you out on that

and it is time once again for you to face the Egghead.

So you've only got one life left, Tony.

You need to hang on in, otherwise you go the same way as Spencer.

Tony, just for you, my very favourite subject - US Presidents.

Well...

I was actually going to do some research on American Presidents

before I came on, but it just slipped my mind.

It's a shame that, isn't it, Jeremy?

It's unfortunate.

I'm...I'm going to go away from George Washington.

I'm going to go for one of the lesser-known ones,

as far as I'm concerned, and I will go for John Adams.

If you get this wrong, Tony, you will lose your last life

and, sadly, be gone. We want to keep you in here. Let's see.

The correct answer is John Adams.

-CONTESTANT APPLAUDS

-Well done, Tony.

We got a round of applause over here!

That's how desperate we're looking!

-Desperate, yeah.

-You can return to your fellow players.

You're the first person to go to the Hot Spot

and survive his beastly questions.

Mark, your question.

On a standard English Qwerty keyboard,

which key is between H and K?

J.

J it is. Well done.

You have £1,000. Gone into four figures.

Alannah, which tennis player won the men's singles, men's doubles

and mixed doubles titles at Wimbledon in 1939?

I'll say Fred Perry.

Fred Perry is your answer.

How amazing, CJ has not buzzed.

It's not Perry, but I can't remember who it is.

Bobby Riggs is the answer. Better known for his Battle of...

Oh, this famous Battle of the Sexes match.

Battle of the Sexes in '73, yeah.

With Billie Jean King.

So, no extra money,

but because CJ didn't know the answer,

you're not called to the Hot Spot.

£1,000 in the pot.

Andrew, the ruins of the Inca settlement at Machu Picchu

are in which country?

Peru.

Peru is the right answer.

Another £200. 1,200.

Tony, Hetty Feather is the first in a tetralogy of books

by which children's offer?

Let's go Roald Dahl.

BUZZER

-Roald Dahl.

-I think it's a new series by Jacqueline Wilson.

Yes, it is Jacqueline Wilson. CJ is right and you are wrong, Tony.

It is time once again to face the Egghead.

Well, you lost a life the first time you were there.

You then held him off and stayed in the game.

So, good luck holding him off again. What are you going to go for, CJ?

I'm going to go for something that doesn't interest me

in the slightest. Tony...

Well, this is my mum's favourite programme, actually,

Strictly Come Dancing.

Now, I think it's not Cat Deeley and I don't think it's Holly Willoughby.

But I think the other two have hosted it. I'm going to go with Zoe Ball.

The correct answer...

-..is Zoe Ball.

-Well done. You've done it again, Tony,

and the added advantage of annoying CJ as well.

Return to your fellow players.

Don't have much time left.

You're on £1,200. Four lives left only.

Back to you with your question, Mark.

Which Australian singer and actress, born in 1948,

founded Koala Blue Wines?

Born in 1948...

MARK SIGHS

Bit offensive, but Kylie Minogue.

BUZZER

Bit offensive? Oh, I see, born in '48!

Erm, I have absolutely no idea.

You think he's wrong, but you have no idea?

I think he might be, just on the dates, don't you?

Nothing has come to mind, so I don't know.

-The answer is Olivia Newton-John.

-Really?

-Born in 1948, yeah.

-OK.

So you're not called to the Hot Spot

because he didn't know the answer, even though you got it wrong, Mark.

But you don't make any money with that answer.

So, £1,200. Alannah, don't look worried.

In which field was Domenikos Theotokopoulos,

better known as El Greco, a famous name?

Acting?

-BUZZER

-He was an actor?

I've been to see his house

and the places where he was based in Toledo in Spain.

-He was an artist.

-He was an artist, Alannah.

So, he has a chance to ask you one of his specially written questions.

Please take on the Egghead.

-CJ, please make it easy for her.

-Alannah...

I'll say Rome.

The Rome Olympics of 1932.

CJ, this will either keep Alannah in the game or see her ejected.

It's Los Angeles.

1932, Los Angeles.

Very sorry, it's another wrong answer from you, Alannah,

and that was your last life.

So I have to say thanks for playing,

but you're out of the game and out of the money.

The Egghead has had his revenge.

Three of you left and three lives.

The klaxon could go at any moment.

Andrew, your question.

Which man, born in 1932,

presented Record Breakers on BBC TV for many years?

-Roy Castle.

-Roy Castle is correct, well done.

£1,400.

Tony, the colours of the Jamaican flag are green, yellow

-and which other?

-Black.

Black is the right answer.

£200 more. £1,600.

Storming along now.

Mark, cinnabar is the chief ore mineral of which element?

Iron. BUZZER

-Iron, CJ.

-Mercury.

-Mercury is the right answer. CJ has got it right.

He's caught you out. He's doing this again and again and again.

Mark, you have to go to the Hot Spot and take him on again.

If you lose a life, you will lose your chance to share in the money.

So take your time here.

I don't know what to make of you, Mark,

so I'm not absolutely sure what I'm going to give you.

But I think we will try a little bit of history.

Pretty sure it's not Aesop, because, obviously, Aesop's fables.

Er, Father of History. I don't think it's Sophocles.

I think it could be Herodotus.

Herodotus. Now, if you get it wrong, you'll be out of the game, Mark.

And, obviously, CJ senses a quizzer here in you. So let's see.

-The answer is Herodotus.

-Well done, Herodotus it is.

You get the chance to return to your fellow players. Well done.

That wasn't a very good pick by you, CJ.

Did anybody ask your opinion, Jeremy?

Well, I'm just giving it,

thinking you just sensed that Mark is maybe a quizzer.

OK, anyway, £1,600 you've built up

and it's now your question, Andrew.

The coach Andy Flower played for which country in Test match cricket?

-Zimbabwe.

-Zimbabwe is correct.

£1,800. Tony, we go to you.

-KLAXON SOUNDS

-Ah, no, we don't,

because the klaxon has gone, that was the last question.

Three of you have survived to play in the final

and you've built up a prize pot of £1,800.

You now have the chance to take the money home.

There is just one problem - you have to beat the Egghead.

So, there's £1,800 up for grabs and three of you left.

Now, if you can prove yourselves better than CJ,

you will win the money. But he'll do everything he can to stop you.

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

However many he answers correctly will become your target to beat.

-Are you ready, CJ?

-I am, Jeremy.

-You think you're going to win easily here, don't you?

-Yes, Jeremy.

Guys, the gauntlet has been thrown down. The questions go to CJ first.

Let's play. Your ten questions start now.

The 12th-century claimant to the English throne, Matilda,

was the daughter of which king?

I'm worried here I'm going to get confused between her father

and her husband.

She usurped Stephen, but was he her father or her husband?

I'll try Stephen.

-It's not Stephen. Henry I is the answer.

-Ah.

Who composed the music for the opera Porgy And Bess?

George Gershwin.

George Gershwin is correct. That's one correct out of two.

Which city is known as the Pearl of the Danube?

Never heard of that.

Blind guess, er, Budapest.

Budapest is correct. How annoying is that? How did you do that?

Well, I've been to Budapest several times

and it's a beautiful city, and it's on the Danube.

Two out of three. Who did Princess Anne marry in 1992?

Does the answer "I don't care" count?

Tim Laurence?

Tim Laurence, Timothy Laurence, is correct.

Three out of four.

Which singer, born in 1936, was known as The Big O?

Picking some today, aren't you?!

Oh, sorry, I was thinking female. I think I know who it is.

I think it is a man. I think it's Roy Orbison.

Roy Orbison is the right answer. Four out of five.

What was the purpose of Britain's 1952 Operation Hurricane?

Dear Lord.

Again, I don't know this. I'll just take a bit of a guess on the dates.

Just say it was the development of a nuclear bomb.

I can accept that.

Atomic testing. So you're absolutely right. Operation Hurricane.

You've got five out of six.

Next question. Who wrote the play Man And Superman?

George Bernard Shaw.

Correct. Six out of seven.

The author Roald Dahl was married to which Oscar-winning actress?

Oh, dear!

Don't think I'm going to remember this.

I have seen this and I'm not going to remember.

Erm, no, I really don't know.

Erm... Vanessa Redgrave.

-No, Patricia Neal.

-Oh!

Six out of eight.

Paques is the French term for which religious holiday?

Well, I can't...can't translate it.

Easter?

Easter is correct. Seven out of nine.

Your last question, CJ.

Eric Liddell won an Olympic gold medal in which event

at the 1924 Paris Olympics?

It's a 50-50, isn't it? I always get him confused.

Harold Abrahams, Eric Liddell, which one ran the 100,

which one ran the 200?

Actually, I think he did the long jump as well.

Oh, dear. So, one of three events. It's 100, 200 or long jump.

I'll try the 100 metres.

You're not even on the right track here,

-because you've never mentioned the right event at all. 400m.

-Oh, dear.

400. So you have seven out of ten.

Seven out of ten, CJ.

Well, that's playable. Do you think it's good enough to win?

I'll go out on a limb here and say it really should be enough.

All right, he thinks he's got the measure of you, guys,

and you've got to prove him wrong.

So, Tony, Mark and Andrew, you've got your target now.

You can work together as a team to beat CJ.

You've got three lives remaining,

give me an incorrect answer and you lose a life.

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

you will win the £1,800.

-Shall we play?

-Yeah.

-Let's go.

First question - which drink takes its name from the Spanish for

"bleeding"?

-Blood is "sangre"...

-Sangria.

-I like it.

-Sangria.

-It's red wine.

Sangria is correct. Hey, what about that?

You're on your way. One point.

How To Win Friends And Influence People is a self-help book

by which author?

-I know it was a film.

-I know it was a film, yes.

If we're looking at traditional self-help people,

who's the guy who tells you to stop smoking? What's his name?

-I don't know.

-Not Paul McKenna or someone like that? Too obvious?

Could be. I was thinking American, but...

It's more than likely wrong, but he has written self-help books.

-It's all we've got, isn't it?

-Is he the guy I mean?

-It's all we've got.

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

-Paul McKenna.

-Paul McKenna.

-CJ:

-No.

-Paul McKenna. You know this one, do you?

I was thinking maybe Toby Young, but he might be an actor.

No, he's How To Lose Friends And Alienate People.

-It was the opposite.

-Yes!

It's a classic text, I think. Dale Carnegie.

I have to take a life away from you.

You needed the answer, Dale Carnegie, and you didn't get it.

What name is given to the strait of water that connects

San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean?

I've actually just been there, not too long ago.

Erm...

Something River? Something Pass?

-The bridge is there.

-Yeah.

-And obviously San Francisco is here.

And then, obviously, the ocean is here. So it's the bit just...

Is it going to be...?

It's going to be named after a place or a person, or...

Could be, like, erm...

Golden Gate Strait.

Golden Gate Strait sounds nice.

-Yeah?

-If it's not... But it's as good as we can come up with.

It's right by where the bridge is, so...

Golden Gate Strait.

Golden Gate is the correct answer.

Nice work.

OK, that's not bad. Two points.

Which British king, born in 1738,

is often said to have lost the colonies?

-The colonies would be America, wouldn't it?

-Yeah.

-I'm thinking George III.

-It'll be George, yeah.

George, his reign's, what,

1760-1820, something like that?

-I'd go...

-I'm pretty sure it's George III.

-Yeah, go George III.

George III.

George III is the right answer.

The Corbillon Cup is awarded to women's world team champions

in which sport?

-It's not tennis.

-Tennis...

Maybe it is tennis.

-Women's team sport...

-Oh, OK, sorry, yeah.

No, what I'm going on is, women's TEAM sport... I don't know...

-Rugby league?

-Could be rugby league.

-I'm thinking more rugby union.

They've had the World Cup in England previously. It could well be.

Go rugby union?

-Yeah, I haven't got anything better.

-Yeah.

-Yeah? Rugby union.

Rugby union.

Interesting answer, because you were so close to the right answer.

-CJ:

-Very close.

-You know the answer?

-It's table tennis.

Yeah, table tennis is the answer.

You had tennis, you sort of toyed with it and then discarded it.

Table tennis is the answer.

You lose another life.

So, £1,800 in the pot.

CJ scored seven. You need eight.

You're on three. You need five correct answers in a row.

Suomi is the local name for which European country?

-That's Finland.

-That is Finland.

-Yeah.

Finland.

Finland is correct. Up to four.

In which classic of English literature does a dog called

Montmorency feature?

Montmorency is Three Men In A Boat.

-I like it, go with it.

-Three Men In A Boat.

Three Men In A Boat is correct.

Good play. You're on five!

How many vertices does a cube have?

-Gosh!

-I've not even heard that term.

-Vertices is corners, isn't it?

It could be corners. Does it mean corners or straights?

How many does a cube have?

I would think if it's corners, he would have said corners.

I'm going on vertices being perhaps straight lines.

-Yeah. Not the faces?

-Maybe edges?

So if you've got a cube, say, a dice, you've got one, two,

-three, four...

-It's got 12.

..five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, yeah.

-I don't...

-It's either eight or 12, isn't it?

-I reckon it's lines.

-Do you?

-I was going to say I think it's corners.

-You think it's corners?

I don't think we're going to come to a decision. I don't know.

I like 12.

-OK, OK. Go, go, go.

-Yeah?

-Go 12.

12.

12 is your answer. If you have it wrong, it's the end of the contest.

If you have it right, we play on.

The answer, I am sorry to say, is eight.

And you lose your last life.

And the contest is over.

And that's very painful, because you were there or thereabouts

and you had all the different options.

-Enjoy the game?

-Yeah, yeah.

-Yeah, great.

Look, guys, if it's any consolation, I had a great time.

So, unfortunately, contestants, you've lost all your lives.

You failed to beat CJ's target

and I am afraid you leave here with nothing.

Congratulations, CJ, you have shown 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.