Episode 11 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 Chris, I'm a nuclear medicine physicist from Cardiff.

I'm Jeremy, I've just completed a Masters degree and I'm from London.

I'm Mike, I work in customer service and I'm from Cheshire.

I'm Cath, I'm a cabaret singer and I'm from Swansea.

I'm James, I'm a PR account director and I'm from Bristol.

Welcome. Good luck to you all.

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

you will need to outsmart CJ De Mooi over here. How are you, CJ?

Not too bad. I just want to get this over and done with.

Well, that's nice(!)

What are you learning, what are you revising at the moment?

Apparently, some weak-minded people have emotions

and they use the phrase "I love you",

and as this comes up in quizzes from time to time,

I've tried to learn "I love you" in different languages.

All right. So, if I was to say, for example, Dutch, could you do that?

Well, as I speak Dutch anyway, that's a fairly easy one for me.

-Ik hou van je.

-Ik hou van je.

-Ik hou van je.

-OK. Mandarin.

You'll have to forgive my pronunciation on this one,

it's "wo ai ni".

OK. Do we believe him?

This could all be completely wrong.

What do you make of the line-up here, CJ?

Do they look threatening to you?

If they shake any more, we'll need a new set.

DERMOT LAUGHS

All right. With that warm welcome, shall we get started?

Contestants, none of you know each other,

but you will 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 bangs the big red buzzer

and the lights go off and once he's caught you out,

he has the chance to ask you a particularly difficult question

that he has written himself,

dastardly multiple-choice options.

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

lit up in front of you.

If you lose them both, you're out of the game.

Whoever survives to the end of the game will have a shot

at sharing the prize money. So, shall we begin?

Chris, you have the first question.

Which attack of World War II happened on 7th December, 1941?

-Gallipoli.

-Gallipoli is your answer. CJ.

Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor was the correct answer. I'm sorry, Chris.

CJ has caught you out,

which means that you will 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.

Watch out here, because these are particularly tricky,

as he has written them himself.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

Chris is a nuclear scientist, CJ, so it's going to be tough.

Obviously not if I pick History, though, eh?

And let's try a bit of...

-oh, look, History.

-Wonderful.

-Who were you thinking, Chris?

-I'm just trying to work my way through.

I've got a feeling that...

Hang on, I think it was Edward II.

Edward II, CJ?

It's Richard II.

Richard II was the correct answer.

You're going to lose a life.

Please return to your fellow players, Chris.

Well, that's a slightly painful start, Chris.

We have to take a life away. Jeremy, your question.

Emperor, Galapagos and Fairy are all varieties of which bird?

-Finch.

-Finch.

Oh, this is going well, isn't it?!

-Penguin.

-Oh, penguin! Of course.

-Penguin, Jeremy. CJ's got it right,

you've got it wrong,

so you have to go onto the hot spot. It is time to face the Egghead.

All right. It's an awkward start here, we haven't got any money yet.

-Go easy, CJ, eh?

-Jeremy.

Breakbone fever, Jeremy.

I don't thing it's going to be Lassa fever.

Then there's two colours...

So, I'm going to go with dengue fever.

-CJ.

-The correct answer...

-is dengue fever.

-Well done, Jeremy.

Maybe we've turned the tide.

Do return to your fellow players.

Jeremy, you keep both your lives.

-Where do you get your American accent from?

-America.

-Which part of it?

-Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.

-Roughly which part?

-Virginia. I am American and I am English.

-My lovely mum is English.

-OK. We're still on zero, players.

We need to get some money in the pot. Mike, your question.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles is an 1891 novel by which British writer?

Charlotte Bronte.

-For goodness' sake!

-Charlotte Bronte.

Thomas Hardy.

Thomas Hardy. It's very hard up there, CJ.

The pressure's on, the lights are on. Mike, I'm sorry.

You're going to have to go to the hot spot and take on the Egghead.

Mike.

I don't watch the Simpsons, so let's see what sounds best with it.

Bart JoJo. Bart Jay.

Bart Julius. Bart Jomer.

I know it starts with J.

I'll go with Julius.

-OK, CJ.

-The right answer...

..is JoJo.

Please go back and return to your fellow players.

All right, Mike. You're going to lose a life there, I'm afraid.

I think we'd call this an awkward start. Cath, this is your moment.

In which film does a character named Nathan Jessup famously say,

"You can't handle the truth"?

A Few Good Men.

A Few Good Men is the right answer.

Stop your sarcastic clapping. £200, players,

goes into the pot.

You are finally off the blocks.

You've got money in the pot. Great.

James, which former Wimbledon champion became

the coach of the tennis player Novak Djokovic in 2013?

Boris Becker.

Boris Becker is the right answer.

Another £200. James, Cath, well done.

You've started the team off. £400.

OK. Over to Chris on the end.

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for physics?

-That was Marie Curie.

-Marie Curie is the right answer. Well done.

Another 200. £600 in the pot.

Jeremy, who was MP for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004?

Tony Blair.

Tony Blair. You probably were out of the country then, were you?

-I got here in 2001.

-OK. CJ has buzzed.

-Peter Mandelson.

-Peter Mandelson is the right answer.

Jeremy, you escaped on the hot spot last time,

but you need to go there again. It is time to face the Egghead.

So, Masters graduate Jeremy.

Jeremy.

What do you think, Jeremy?

I think I'm going to go with Elgar or Britten.

I think it's going to be Benjamin Britten.

CJ?

It's Elgar.

Jeremy, I'll pull you out of the field of play, I think.

Can you go back and rejoin your fellow players?

You're going to lose a life, Jeremy.

This side of the team is creaking.

This side is strong. £600 in the pot.

Mike, here's your question.

Who directed the films Shaun of the Dead,

Hot Fuzz and The World's End?

Is it Danny Boyle?

Danny Boyle. CJ has buzzed.

They're the three films in the Cornetto trilogy.

They all starred Simon Pegg and it's Edgar Wright.

Edgar Wright is the correct answer. Well done, CJ.

You've got it wrong and you're going to have to go to the hot spot.

Listen, you're on your last life. You need to play well, here.

Mike, it's time to face the Egghead.

So, CJ, can you just maybe go easy on Mike a little bit here

and help him stay in the game?

All right. Let's have a little bit

from that delightful quizzer's Pandora's box,

the periodic table.

Have you ever handled stibium, Mike?

Never. I wouldn't even know what it was if it come up and hit me.

I'm going to take a wild guess at this and say einsteinium.

Einsteinium is your answer. Right. Stakes are high here.

The correct answer is...

-antimony.

-Antimony is the right answer.

We knew it was a bit of a...

It was a guess.

Unfortunately, that was your last life, Mike.

It means you are out of the game and out of the money.

-The Egghead has taken his revenge.

-Thank you.

It's always painful when a space opens up. Let's see how we're doing.

You've got £600 in the pot.

Cath, your question.

Which pop star married a man named Sam Cooper in June, 2011?

Jessica Simpson.

Jessica Simpson is your answer.

CJ doesn't know.

It was Lily Allen.

So, you got it wrong, but he also didn't know,

so you do not go to the hot spot.

But you also make no money from that answer.

So, we're still on £600.

James. Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing

are characters in which play?

Waiting for Godot.

Waiting for Godot. CJ.

The Importance of Being Earnest.

The Importance of Being Earnest is the right answer.

James, it's going to be your first go on the hot spot.

It's time to take on the Egghead.

-So, you're a PR account director.

-That's right.

-You do any quizzing?

-A little bit, yeah. A little bit.

-Uh-huh. CJ.

Let's try...

Music.

Bit before your time, I'm thinking, James.

It's going to have to be a guess.

I'm torn between Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac.

-I'm going to go for Pink Floyd.

-CJ, is he right?

What do you think?

It's Fleetwood Mac.

Sorry, James. It was Fleetwood Mac.

You were nearly there. Please return to your fellow players.

OK. It's getting a little bit painful here, players.

James, you lose a life.

You're on 600.

Chris, we're back with you. Your question for £200.

Which footballer won the prestigious Ballon d'Or award in 2014?

-Cristiano Ronaldo.

-Cristiano Ronaldo is the right answer.

£800, you're on. Jeremy, which country is known to its inhabitants

as Hrvatska?

-Croatia.

-Croatia is quite right, well done. £200. Up to 1,000 now.

Cath, I Know Him So Well

-and One Night In Bangkok are songs from which musical?

-Chess.

Chess. OK, well done, £200. 1,200, you're up to.

James, The Turn Of The Screw is a ghost story by which author?

Thomas Hardy?

BUZZER

-Thomas Hardy, CJ?

-Henry James.

Henry James is correct. Thomas Hardy is wrong.

Now, from a position of strength, James, you're now clinging on.

You have to take on the Egghead.

So, listen, you've got one life left, James.

And if you lose it, you will be out of the game.

Well, the answer that immediately sprang to mind is

one of the options.

Whether or not it's the right answer or not...

but I'll have to go with it, so I'll go with nightjar.

This sounds encouraging.

You actually had the word nightjar in your mind?

-Well, that's what I thought, but that doesn't mean it's right.

-CJ?

-It's lapwing.

-Oh, well, I'm really sorry.

Another wrong answer, so we have to say thanks for playing,

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

The Egghead has taken his revenge.

Well, you built up some money, £1,200, you're on.

A slightly depleted crew, if I may say so.

All right, Chris, your question.

The Heston Blumenthal restaurant

The Fat Duck is in which large village in Berkshire?

I've got Roehampton in my head, but I know that's wrong.

-Your answer is?

-Roehampton.

-Roehampton?

Oh, look, nothing on that! The name is Bray.

HE GROANS

Very famous restaurant and famous place, but CJ didn't know it

so, Chris, you don't make any money from that answer

but you're not called to the hot spot. Pressure's on here.

Jeremy, £1,200 in the pot.

Roseau is the capital and chief town of which Caribbean country?

It's on the tip of my tongue.

-Saint Lucia.

-Saint Lucia is your answer. CJ has buzzed.

I don't think it's Saint Lucia, but I don't know this. Bahamas?

No, Dominica is the answer. Again, you're off the hook there, Jeremy.

He didn't know the answer. You've still got two lives there, Cath.

You're doing really well here. £1,200 in the pot.

Here's your question.

Who was the President of France from 1959 to 1969?

I have no idea at all.

Erm...can't even think of one to tell you.

BUZZER

Now, that's a bit early, CJ, with the buzzer.

-She said she can't think of anything.

-OK. What's your answer?

-Is that the later term of Charles de Gaulle?

-It is.

Charles de Gaulle, and that means, Cath,

you're going to have to go on the hot spot and take on the Egghead.

So all we know about you is, you're a cabaret singer

and you like musicals.

I won't ask any more because I don't want him to take advantage.

-British history for you, Cath.

-Thought it might be.

I have read this...somewhere.

I don't think it was 1692, I think it was later than that

but out of the other three I am going to go with...

straight down the middle from the other three, 1752.

-The correct answer is 1752.

-Well done. How about that?

Please return to your fellow players.

The final's coming up. The klaxon can't be far away.

£1,200, you're on.

Chris, your question.

Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski are characters in which 1947 play?

I do know this.

A Streetcar Named Desire.

A Streetcar Named Desire is correct.

Well done. £200 makes it 1,400 in the pot.

Jeremy, what is the name of the man who plays Mr Tumble

and other characters on children's TV?

I'm going to have to pass.

BUZZER

You can't just throw out a name?

-My childhood was in America.

-OK, CJ?

-Is it Miles Jupp?

-No, it is not, it's Justin Fletcher.

Never heard that name in my life.

Anyone...anyone with young kids in this country, this guy is a god.

He gets mobbed in shopping centres and stuff.

Anyway, Jeremy, you got it wrong but you're not called to the hot spot.

You can breathe again. £1,400 in the pot.

Cath, who was the last person to be appointed Home Secretary

in Gordon Brown's Government?

Jack Straw?

Jack Straw is your answer. CJ has not buzzed.

Alan Johnson is the answer.

Again, CJ didn't know, so you don't go to the hot spot.

Chris, your question, with £1,400 in the pot.

In which Charles Dickens novel does the convict Abel Magwitch appear?

It's in The Pickwick Papers.

-BUZZER

-The Pickwick Papers.

Got lots of characters in that book, is that the right book, CJ?

-Great Expectations.

-Great Expectations, it is.

Classic quiz territory, all the Dickens books.

It is time to face the Egghead.

I'm assuming he's not going to ask you about nuclear physics.

-Almost anything else.

-I'd be surprised

-if he's got any questions on that.

-Well, I would not, I would not. CJ?

I'm going to try European geography with you, Chris.

-Have you been to any?

-I've been to quite a few, I know it's not Rome.

Fairly certain it's not Barcelona.

-As Lisbon is on the coast, I will go with Lisbon.

-CJ?

-It's Lisbon.

-Lisbon is right, Chris, well done. Please return.

Nicely done. You're still in the game.

Players, you're on £1,400, the klaxon will go at any moment.

Jeremy, which animal with the scientific name pan paniscus

is often called the pygmy chimpanzee?

Lemur.

Lemur is your answer. CJ has not buzzed, again. Bonobo.

Ooh!

-£1,400, we're on. Cath, Kerala is a state in which Asian country?

-India.

India, India's the right answer, well done. £200 in the pot, 1,600.

Chris, Devizes... Ah, so we've asked our last question, players.

Three of you have survived to play in the final.

You've built up a prize pot of £1,600

after a bit of a struggle at the beginning there,

but you've got the chance now to take that money home with you.

There is just one problem. You've got to beat the Egghead.

So, there is £1,600 up for grabs and three of you left.

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

but he is going to do everything he can to stop you.

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

However many he answers correctly

will then become your target to beat. Are you ready, CJ?

Well, considering I could get nought out of ten

and they still wouldn't beat it, yes.

Your ten questions start here, CJ.

Which notorious criminal died on January 25, 1947

at his private estate in Palm Island, Florida?

Al Capone.

Al Capone is the right answer.

One right out of one. Next question.

Sebastian Flyte is a character in which novel?

First published in 1945.

Brideshead Revisited.

Brideshead Revisited is correct. Two out of two. Next question.

"You're dethpicable" is the catchphrase of which

Warner Brothers cartoon character?

-Daffy Duck.

-Daffy Duck is correct.

Three out of three.

The Battle Of Sedan and the Siege Of Metz took place

in which war of the 19th-century?

-Crimean War?

-No, the Franco-Prussian war.

Three out of four.

In publishing in the UK,

what does the abbreviation HMSO stand for?

-Her Majesty's Sorting Office.

-Oh, you're so close. Anyone know here?

-Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

-Stationery Office is the answer.

Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

You've got three out of five now.

Which film won Oscars for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor,

Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay in 1992?

There are only three films that have only won those five, of course.

I don't know if the question means the film won others as well,

but I'll have to go with the one that just won those five,

which was Silence Of The Lambs.

Silence Of The Lambs is the right answer, well done. OK.

You've got four out of six. Next question.

The site of the ancient city of Carthage is now part of which city?

-Tunis?

-Tunis is the right answer. Five out of seven.

In a single game of tenpin bowling, what is the highest score

-that can be achieved in a so-called perfect game?

-300.

300 is the right answer. Six out of eight.

Next question, in pantomime,

-what is the name of Aladdin's mother?

-Widow Twankey.

Widow Twankey is correct. You've got seven out of nine.

Last question for you, CJ.

Andres Segovia was best known

for his skill on which musical instrument?

-Guitar.

-Guitar is the right answer.

Eight questions correct out of ten, so that is the target.

-Do you think it's good enough to win?

-Without a shadow of a doubt.

OK, you need to prove him wrong.

Chris, Jeremy, Cath, you now have your target.

You can work together as a team to try to beat him.

You've got four lives remaining lit up there.

If you give me a wrong answer,

I will have to take out one of your lives.

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

-you win the £1,600. Shall we play?

-Yes.

-Good luck to you.

Here's your first question.

Robyn Fenty is the real name of which singer?

-It's Lady Gaga's?

-No, that's Stephani Germanotta.

What about Beyonce?

-Or Rihanna? She's in the news a lot.

-I think it might be Rihanna.

-I'm nervous about it. Let's think of somebody else.

-Oh...Kesha.

-Kesha.

-Kersha?

-Could be. Could be a good guess.

I'd be happy to go with that.

Yeah, happy to go with that, never heard of her.

We'll go with Kesha.

Really interesting discussion. You talked about the correct one.

It's not the right answer.

-Do you know the correct answer?

-I thought it was Rihanna.

-Rihanna is the right answer!

-Sorry!

-That's your fault!

Jeremy, you brought Rihanna into the conversation

and then you took her out again. OK, so you lose a life. That is painful.

Next question, who was the first Conservative Party leader

since World War II not to become Prime Minister

during his term of leadership?

-Well, we have Iain Duncan Smith and the chap...

-Michael Howard.

Michael Howard and the guy, the Foreign Secretary guy.

-William Hague.

-William Hague.

None of them were Prime Minister.

You might be right with William Hague. He was the one before.

-After John Major?

-Yeah.

Shall we go with him, because he's around now still?

It might be a bit late but...William Hague?

William Hague is the right answer.

All right, you've got an answer correct.

You've got one point, you've got three lives left.

You're playing for £1,600.

Next question, which artist was born

in the town of Figueras on 11 May 1904?

I think it's going to be Salvador Dali. It's a Spanish thing.

It's about his time, though he might have been born in the 1800s.

-Got the right sort of age.

-Yeah, and the right sort of sound.

-Salvador Dali.

-You got it right. Salvador Dali.

Jeremy, you played a blinder there in the middle. Well done.

Salvador Dali. Another one to prove him wrong. Next question.

Princess Aura, Dr Hans Zarkov

and Prince Vultan are characters in which 1980 film?

-Flash Gordon?

-Flash Gordon.

-Flash Gordon.

Flash Gordon is the right answer. You've got three. Next question.

Which man, born in Edinburgh in 1716,

is often referred to as the founder of naval hygiene in England?

Lister. He sort of, chemicals... handwashing...surgical techniques.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Was he in the Navy?

-That I don't know.

-I can't remember his first name.

-Was he Scottish?

-British.

Lister.

Well, I would normally ask for a first name, but it's wrong anyway.

The name is James Lind. L-I-N-D.

You lose a life. Three points, you're on.

Which country is often referred to as the land of the long white cloud?

I've got, I've got New Zealand in my head.

New Zealand? Why New Zealand?

It's just...popped.

-Have you got...?

-I've got no... I've never heard it before.

-Should go with your guts, Chris.

-New Zealand?

-New Zealand is the right answer.

-Hey, hey!

-Instinct's very important.

-I thought you were going to override him there.

-No way.

All right, four points, two lives left.

Your next question.

Which Welsh player was controversially sent off

in the semifinal of the 2011 Rugby Union World Cup?

Sam, wasn't it?

-Hmmm...Yeah, Sam Warburton.

-Sam Warburton.

-You know that for sure?

Sam Warburton is right. Here is your next question, focus in now.

Which man was nominated for an Oscar in four separate categories

at the Academy Award ceremonies held in 1979 and again in 1982?

Four separate categories?

-'79 and '82? Um...

-This is well before my time.

HE LAUGHS

Woody Allen?

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-That's his sort of...

-That's his deal.

-Yeah, peak time.

-Peak time, he's nailing it. Woody Allen.

-Woody Allen.

It's not Woody Allen. The answer is Warren Beatty.

Heaven Can Wait and Reds, acting, writing, directing, producing.

You lose a life.

Now, this is an important moment.

Your next wrong answer ends the contest and hands victory to CJ.

We don't want that to happen. You've got five.

You've got to overhaul his eight. To win £1,600,

you need the next four questions correct.

Jethou and Herm are part of which British island group?

I think this is the Scilly Isles.

-I don't think it's the Channels.

-If it's not the Channels...

I've been around the Outer and Inner Hebrides,

so it's not them.

That leaves Shetland or the Scillies.

-It sounds Scilly-ish.

-Scilly was your gut, though.

-Yeah.

Any thoughts, Cath?

I would have gone for Hebrides, but if you've been there...

-I'm certain it's not the Hebrides.

-OK...

You have to talk again.

-Scilly Isles?

-OK, your answer is the Scilly Isles.

If you've got it wrong, you lose a life and the contest is over.

Jethou and Herm are part of the Channel Islands.

THEY GROAN

And I bought the logic completely on the Scilly Isles.

Anyway, thank you for playing.

Unfortunately, you have lost all your lives

and you've failed to beat CJ's target

and I'm afraid that means you leave here with nothing.

We say 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.