Episode 10 Revenge of the Egghead

These five contestants are hoping to walk away today

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 Pete, I'm a railway worker from Renfrewshire.

I'm John, a civil servant from Manchester.

I'm Lynne, I'm retired, and I'm from Derby.

I'm Rob, I'm a director of IT from Cheltenham.

I'm Angharad, and I'm a barrister from Cardiff.

Welcome and good luck to you all.

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

you will need to outsmart CJ de Mooi.

And how are you today, CJ?

I'm sitting here reminded of the film

Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear.

-You can detect it on the other side of the studio?

-It's reeking.

Now, you usually learn lists of some sort between shows, CJ,

so what are you on at the moment?

One of those quiz staples that always comes up, collective nouns,

and names of groups of animals which are so tedious

-but you have to learn them.

-Oh, I see, so a herd of cows, that's easy.

-Well done.

-Rhinos?

-Crash.

-Owl?

Er, that's one of the quiz staples, a parliament of owls.

Parliament of owls. Anyone know any others here they want to throw in?

-No?

-Budgerigars?

-Budgerigars?

-A cageful.

He doesn't know, basically!

Don't be intimidated by CJ, that's the key thing here.

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 that your answer is wrong,

he can stop play like this...

BUZZER

..with the big red buzzer,

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

a particularly difficult question that he has written himself.

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

you've got lit up in front of the desk, and 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?

Pete, first question is to you.

Which model won the 2013 series of Strictly Come Dancing?

Abbey Clancy.

Abbey Clancy is right, £200 in the bank straight away.

OK, John, your question.

From the age of 13,

David Cameron attended which school?

Eton.

Eton College is correct.

Another £200 in the bank, making 400.

Lynne, Bruges, famous for its many canals, is a city in which country?

Belgium.

Belgium is right, £600.

Rob, which actor appeared in the films

The Wedding Crashers, The A-Team and Limitless?

Bradley Cooper.

Bradley Cooper is the right answer,

£800, you've got.

Angharad, let's see if you can get to 1,000.

Juba is the capital of which country,

which gained its independence in 2011?

Tonga?

BUZZER

Tonga!

South Sudan.

South Sudan is the correct answer, Angharad,

and because CJ's got it right and you had it wrong,

you're going to have to face him on the hot spot,

and he's going to see if he can get one of your lives away from you.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

He has written the questions himself, haven't you?

I have indeed, and let's just plunge straight in with what I'm sure is

your favourite subject, classical music.

Angharad...

I'm going to guess with, erm,

Igor Stravinsky.

The correct answer's Igor Stravinsky.

Well done, Angharad.

You live to fight another day. Please rejoin the other players.

You fought him off there, but you're on £800 still.

Let's see if you can get to 1,000.

Pete, your question.

Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope

are books written by whom?

CS Lewis?

BUZZER

-CS Lewis?

-Barack Obama.

Barack Obama is the right answer, Pete.

You have to take on the Egghead.

CJ, what question area are you looking at?

We're just going to have, quite simply,

a definition question. Pete...

I shall go for a reflecting telescope.

CJ, put us out of our misery.

It's a musical instrument.

You've got it wrong, I'm afraid, Pete,

so do rejoin the other players.

Pete, I'm sorry, you've become the first player in this game

to lose a life. Don't lose the other one or you'll be out.

Players, you've built up a pot of £800.

You were doing stormingly well. Get the pressure back on.

John, Ronnie Radford scored a famous long-range goal for which club

against Newcastle United in a 1972 FA Cup tie?

That was Hereford United.

Hereford United is the right answer.

-You must be a football fan.

-I am.

You've got another £200, so you now have the £1,000 in the bank.

Well done, you're playing well.

Lynne. "The course of true love never did run smooth"

is a line spoken by Lysander in which Shakespeare play?

Romeo & Juliet.

BUZZER

-Romeo & Juliet?

-I hope Lysander is in Twelfth Night?

You are wrong to say that,

because Lysander is in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

-Aieee!

-Yes, you got it wrong, Lynne, but he got it wrong too,

so you don't make any money there

but you also don't have to face one of CJ's special questions.

-Very good.

-Rob, we move to you.

In 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike

became the world's first female prime minister

after winning elections in which country?

That was in, erm, Ceylon. Sri Lanka.

I can accept either. That's quite right.

Ceylon, Sri Lanka. Well done, another £200.

£1,200.

So, Angharad, the word "moonraker"

is a traditional nickname for people from which county?

Kent?

BUZZER

-CJ?

-I think it's Wiltshire.

Yes, it is Wiltshire. You are going to have to go and face CJ again,

so please go to the hot spot and take on the Egghead.

-CJ, what's your strategy?

-Sport.

-Sport.

-Angharad...

I'm thinking the triple jump, because I actually think the other three

are slightly longer, so I'm going to go for triple jump.

The correct answer is shot put.

I'm sorry, Angharad.

Please return to the other players.

Bad luck, you have to lose a life, but you're still in the game,

and you've got £1,200. Pete, over to you.

Flavor Flav and Chuck D found fame

as members of which rap group in the 1980s?

I can't think of any rap groups, sorry.

BUZZER

Well, I've got no idea, I'll guess Run DMC.

No, it's not Run DMC.

Public Enemy is the answer.

So he didn't get it right either,

so he doesn't call you to the hot spot, but you don't make any money.

We're still stuck on £1,200. Over to you now, John.

Who was the captain of the men's Australian Test cricket team

during the 2013-14 Ashes series?

Michael Clarke.

Michael Clarke is quite right.

Another £200, you're up to £1,400.

Lynne, Teenage Kicks, famously covered by One Direction

in 2013, was originally a UK Top 40 hit single by which band?

-I don't know, er, Blue.

-Blue.

-You don't know either.

-Sorry, I don't.

-I can see that Rob knows.

-Undertones.

-The Undertones is the answer.

Famously, John Peel's favourite record.

But don't worry, Lynne, because he didn't know either.

You make no money, but you're not called out. OK, £1,400.

Rob, your question.

Which 19th-century novel tells the story of the final voyage

of a ship called the Pequod?

And that's P-E-Q-U-O-D.

Treasure Island.

BUZZER

-Treasure Island?

-Moby Dick.

Moby Dick is the correct answer, Rob.

It is time to take on the Eggheads.

You've been up all night writing these questions, CJ.

Well, I think this one's going to come down to

the category of blind guessing. Rob...

Hmm, erm, I've got a suspicion that sticky tape was

developed by accident, so I'm going to go with sticky tape.

Confident?

-CJ?

-Good.

It's a fire extinguisher.

Fire extinguisher is the right answer, Rob.

Please return to the other players.

So you go from two lives to one life,

we have to take one away, and you've got £1,400 between you.

So, Angharad, in Greek mythology,

Jason managed to obtain the Golden Fleece

with the help of which enchantress whom he later married?

Er, Ophelia?

BUZZER

Ophelia...

-is the answer, or not?

-No.

Ariadne?

No, it's not Ariadne either, Medea is the answer.

But you're OK, you made no money,

you don't have to go to the hot spot. He didn't know either.

Pete, over to you, £1,400.

Who played the role of The Doctor in Doctor Who

between 1974 and 1981?

Jon Pertwee.

BUZZER

-Jon Pertwee?

-Tom Baker.

Tom Baker, it was.

-It was Pertwee...

-Directly before.

Directly before, so you weren't far off, Pete,

but he's got it right, you've got it wrong.

You know what happens now, you have to take on the Egghead.

If you get this one wrong, Pete,

you are out of the game and out of the money. CJ...

Pete, how about a nice bit of food and drink for you?

Well, I don't know the answer, so it's going to be a guess.

And I'm going to guess colourings.

Colourings, OK.

Now, if you've got this wrong you will be out, so let's hope.

The answer is colourings.

Colourings is the right answer. Wow, you're OK.

Please rejoin the other players.

That life may be very precious. You've stayed in the game.

£1,400, you're on. John, it's your turn.

Ricky Wilson, Nick Baines, Andrew White and Simon Rix

have found fame as members of which rock group?

Kaiser Chiefs?

Kaiser Chiefs is the right answer, £200. You go to £1,600.

Lynne, Prince Albert of Monaco has represented his country

in which sport at five separate Winter Olympics?

Skiing.

BUZZER

-Skiing.

-I don't know this, but there's something nagging me

that he was part of a toboggan team.

So I'll try tobogganing.

Tobogganing is the right answer, CJ.

Ooh! Don't know where that came from!

So, yes, tobogganing, bobsleigh is the right answer.

Sorry, Lynne, it's time to take on the Egghead.

What are you thinking, CJ?

I'm thinking sort of history here.

Lynne...

I'm going to rule out bank vault, it doesn't sound right.

Erm, I think I'll go for gun.

The correct answer is gun.

Gun is the right answer.

Well done, Lynne. Return to the other players, please.

So, £1,600. Rob, your question.

There Is Nothing Like A Dame and Some Enchanted Evening

are songs from which musical?

Carousel.

The answer is South Pacific, but you didn't know that, clearly.

I was toying between the two, I just didn't know.

OK, so you've got away with it.

No money, but you're not going to the hot spot. £1,600.

Angharad, in which year did man last set foot on the moon?

1973?

BUZZER

-1973?

-One year out, '72.

1972 is the correct answer.

Bad luck, very close there, and you do have to take on the Egghead.

I don't want to go again.

-You've got to get this one right or you are leaving us.

-Angharad...

-I've got absolutely no idea.

-Good.

But I'm going to guess...

..leaf shapes.

CJ.

It's dance moves.

Oh, dear, that was a wrong answer. Unfortunately,

that was also your last life, Angharad.

Thank you for playing. You're out of the money and out of the game.

The Egghead has had his revenge.

Well, CJ, I know you take no pleasure

from seeing people knocked out.

No, I don't. Maybe a slight frisson of excitement.

Well, it might feel good that there are fewer of you to share

the prize money, but of course,

it also means you've got fewer brains in the final.

So, £1,600 in the pot. Pete, it's your question.

The 1994 novel Closing Time

is the sequel to which other work of literature?

Opening Time?

-No, the answer is Catch 22...

-Oh, I couldn't remember!

..which CJ didn't know. He's in physical pain.

You're not called to the hot spot but you make no money. £1,600.

John, your question. John's not put a foot wrong.

Philip IV of France ordered the arrest of all members

of which religious military order

on October 13th 1307?

Was it the Huguenots?

BUZZER

The Huguenots?

It's where we get Friday the 13th from, it's the Templar Knights.

Knights Templar is the right answer,

so no sooner do I say you've not put a foot wrong!

-THEY LAUGH

-That always happens.

So you will have to face CJ. It is time to take on the Egghead.

-What are you thinking, CJ?

-I don't know, John's a good player.

OK, try recent British history.

John...

I think it's...

..either '64 or '74.

I'll plump for...

1974.

I've got confidence this is right.

-It's 1974.

-1974. Well done, John, excellent.

Return to the other players, please.

The klaxon could go at any moment, but, John,

you're playing really well

and you have got £1,600 as a group here.

Lynne, it's your question.

Which notorious criminal was shot dead outside

the Biograph Theatre in Chicago in July 1934?

Al Capone.

BUZZER

-Al Capone.

-First Public Enemy Number One, John Dillinger.

John Dillinger is the answer.

Sorry, Lynne, it's time to take on the Egghead.

Again, you've been playing well too.

This is a really hard group of players to crack here,

but let's see what CJ can do.

Lynne...

How are you with historical sport?

Now, for some obscure reason I think I know this,

and I think he was a goalkeeper.

Goalkeeper is your answer.

Let's see, CJ.

The correct answer is goalkeeper.

What about that, Lynne? You've survived two hot spots.

Please return to the other players.

So, you've kept both your lives. John also has both of his lives.

£1,600 in the pot, and, Rob, we move to you.

Sonny Bill Williams has represented which country

-in international rugby league and rugby union?

-New Zealand.

New Zealand is correct.

£200 in the pot, £1,800, you're up to.

Ooh, and we have the klaxon there.

So that was the last question, four of you are still here.

You've survived to play in the final.

You built up a rather handy prize pot of £1,800,

and you now have the chance to take that money home.

There is one problem - you've got to beat the Egghead.

So there is £1,800 up for grabs and four of you left.

If you can prove yourselves better than CJ, you will win the money.

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

So 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, but six lives is rather nasty.

Let's see how you do. You have your ten questions first. Let us play.

In which country was the actor George Lazenby born?

Australia.

Australia is correct. Next question.

Dali Arabian, Godolphin Barb

and Byerley Turk are famous names in which sport?

Horse racing.

Horse racing is right,

they're the three stallions that all thoroughbred horses descend from.

Two out of two. Next, the Prater Amusement Park,

featuring a celebrated Ferris wheel,

is a feature of which European city?

Prater is P-R-A-T-E-R.

Vienna.

Where did you get that from?

It was my first thought, I was mulling it over.

It's the park where The Third Man's set.

Yes, it is featured in The Third Man.

Vienna is correct, three out of three. Next question,

Peter Pears was the long-time partner of which famous composer?

Benjamin Britten.

Benjamin Britten is correct.

Four out of four.

Sigh No More was the debut album by which British band?

Ohhh...

Can't remember. I have had this question before

and I can't remember.

Mumford and Sons?

You're right. Mumford and Sons, five out of five.

Next question, Billy Liar is a 1959 novel by which writer?

Keith Waterhouse.

Keith Waterhouse is the right answer.

Six out of six, you're playing well, CJ.

In 1978, who became the first ever World Professional Darts Champion?

Leighton Rees.

Leighton Rees is the right answer, seven out of seven!

Henry IV of England became king

following the abdication of which other monarch?

John.

No.

Richard II.

So you've got seven out of eight.

Ian McShane won a Golden Globe Award in 2005

for his role in which TV series?

Oh, dear...

Ah, Deadwood.

Deadwood is the right answer, well done.

So you've got eight out of nine.

Last one. Which tennis player admitted in his autobiography, Open,

that he'd worn a wig for much of his career?

That's Andre Agassi.

Andre Agassi is quite right.

I've given you ten questions, you've got nine correct answers.

Do you think that's going to be enough for you to win the game?

Six lives, I don't know. I don't know.

Pete, John, Lynne and Rob, you now have your target,

and you can now work together as a team to beat it.

You have six lives remaining, we can see them on the front of the desk.

If you give me an incorrect answer, you will lose a life.

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

you will win the prize pot of £1,800.

Shall we go ahead and play?

Here we go. Good luck.

Teenager Jade Jones won an Olympic gold medal in 2012 in which sport?

THEY CONFER

It was taekwondo, wasn't it?

Boxing? Jade Jones.

-Boxing?

-I'm not sure.

-We're going with boxing, Jeremy.

-Boxing is your answer.

-Now did you say something else at the start?

-I said taekwondo.

-You would have been right.

-Sorry.

-Sorry.

-Taekwondo is the answer.

You lose a life on your first question. You've got to beat nine.

Which actress gave birth to a baby with the first names

Marlowe Ottoline Layng in July 2012?

-An actress that just gave birth.

-It is only last year, isn't it?

A current actress. Young. Gwyneth Paltrow has got funny names for hers.

-Kate Winslet?

-Kate Winslet? I don't think it's her.

-Try her.

I don't think it is her, but Kate Winslet, we're going with.

No. It is Sienna Miller.

You lose another life. You're down to four. You need a right answer.

Which famous zoologist was murdered in December 1985 while working

in Rwanda's Virunga Mountains?

Dian Fossey?

I think it was. What's his name again?

-Dian Fossey.

-Oh. Dian Fossey.

-Dian Fossey is quite right.

-Hurray!

Well done, you got your first point there,

chasing CJ's target of nine.

Mn, big M, small n, is the symbol for which chemical element?

-Magnesium?

-Magnesium?

-That would be my first thought.

-We're going with that?

-We'll go with that.

-We're going with magnesium.

-See if CJ knows this.

-It's manganese.

-Manganese is the answer.

-Magnesium is Mg.

-Mg is magnesium. You lose another life.

You're down to three lives. £1,800 in the pot.

In 2010, who became the first Englishman

to manage a football club in Germany's Bundesliga?

-One for you guys!

-Steve McClaren.

Steve McClaren. We're going with Steve McClaren.

Steve McClaren is correct.

So you have two now.

In 1858, explorers Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke

famously arrived at Ujiji on the eastern shore of which lake?

-Don't know.

-Victoria?

That was my first thought as well.

-Victoria Falls?

-Go with that.

Lake Victoria.

It's Lake Tanganyika.

First Europeans to see that lake.

So I take another life away from you.

-You've two left now.

-Oh, dear. You started with six lives, down to two.

You've got to beat nine.

Which British-born actress received an Oscar nomination for her

first-ever screen role in the 1944 film Gaslight?

Ingrid Bergman was in Gaslight. But of course she's not...

Was she British-born?

No. Elizabeth Taylor, is it too early for her?

She's definitely not in it.

It is either the maid or the housekeeper and I don't know

who played them.

Well, I suppose we'd better go with the one you know that's in it.

Well, the only one I am absolutely sure that's in it

is Ingrid Bergman, but I'm sure she's not British-born.

-Angela Lansbury...

-Oh!

..is the answer, British-born Oscar nomination for the film Gaslight.

Lose another life, players. You have one life left.

You cannot afford another wrong answer. £1,800, we're playing for.

CJ's target of nine.

The vitreous humour is in which part of the human body?

Isn't that the eyeball?

-I don't know. I bow to you here.

-I think it's in the eyeball.

We're going with eyeball.

Eye, eyeball, correct. Well done. So you are on three.

Which Shakespeare play sees a king attempt to

divide his kingdom between his three daughters with tragic consequences?

-King Lear.

-Good.

-King Lear.

-King Lear is correct.

-You're on four now with one life left. CJ is looking...

-Relaxed.

Looking relaxed. Just ignore him.

In 1964, Muhammad Ali or, as he was then known, Cassius Clay, became

world champion for the first time by defeating whom?

I think that was Sonny Liston. Pretty sure.

-That is what I think.

-We're going with Sonny Liston.

Sonny Liston is right. So you are on five now. Next question.

Javier Perez de Cuellar,

the former Secretary General of the United Nations,

was born in which country?

Somewhere in South America.

-Perez de Cuellar...

-Peru rings a very vague bell.

Funnily enough, that was my first thought but...

With no real conviction.

I think it's South American.

But... Well, we'll go with that.

We think we are maybe saying goodbye, but we think we're going with Peru.

Given the answer Peru. If you have got this wrong, the contest is over.

Javier Perez de Cuellar. Do you know the answer?

I don't and to be honest, I would have guessed at Peru.

Peru is correct.

Oh!

-This is quite something.

-We're coming!

He didn't think it was possible, but it just might be.

You're on six points now. You do only have one life left.

Do not make another mistake. £1,800, you're playing for.

This is exciting.

What does the J stand for in the name of the author JD Salinger?

Take your time.

-John.

-John.

-John.

-John.

-John? John?

John is your answer. Is it John?

Doesn't ring a bell? I thought it was something like Jerome.

CJ doesn't know. If you are wrong, the contest is over.

If you are right, we build to fever pitch here

as you chase CJ's target of nine. The author JD Salinger...

the J stands for Jerome.

-Oh!

-I'm sorry. You lose your last life.

We've to say that CJ has taken his revenge.

Unfortunately, contestants, you've lost all of your lives and failed

to beat CJ's target and I am afraid you leave here with nothing.

Congratulations, CJ. You've 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.