Episode 12 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 us meet the five contestants hoping to get one over on CJ today.

I'm Paul, an HR consultant from West Sussex.

I'm Jane, I'm a head of student funding, and I come from Rugby.

I'm Ollie, I'm a transport planner from London.

I'm Chantal, I'm a writer and teacher from Somerset.

I'm Roy, I'm a retired university lecturer from Buckinghamshire.

Welcome, players. Good luck to you all.

As you all know, in order to win any money today you will need to

outsmart CJ de Mooi.

You've been studying something,

mugging up on something as you always do?

For a change it's actually something that interests me this time.

Politics and Prime Ministers' constituencies.

So you would be able to tell me Winston Churchill's seat.

-What was that?

-While he was Prime Minister...

He had lots of different seats while he was an MP,

but while he was Prime Minister it was Epping and Woodford.

-OK. What about John Major?

-Huntingdon.

Tony Blair?

Sedgefield.

We'll see if that comes up. It probably won't, but he loves to show off. What do you make of them?

This could be interesting, but some teams that look interesting

and threatening have collapsed very quickly in the past, so let's hope for the same.

OK.

So, as you know, you've not met before

and you are going to be building up a prize fund

together by individually answering general knowledge questions.

Each correct answer will win you £200.

That goes into the pot, but be very careful

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

BUZZER

So he buzzes the buzzer, the lights go red, and once he's caught you out

he can then summon you to the Hot Spot where he will ask you

one of his own specially written questions,

the ones he has written himself.

You get it wrong, you will lose one of those two

lives 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.

So let's play.

Paul, you have the first question.

Which actor was the first to portray Doctor Who on TV?

I will go for William Hartnell.

Correct. £200 in the pot.

Good start.

Jane, the leaves of which tree make up the diet of koalas?

That would be the eucalyptus tree.

Eucalyptus or gumtree is quite right. Well done. £400 you've got now.

Ollie, your question. Ostend is an important seaport in which country?

I'm going to say the Netherlands.

BUZZER

The Netherlands. Netherlands, CJ?

Belgium.

CJ is right and you are wrong. I'm sorry.

It is indeed Belgium so you're going to have to go to the Hot Spot

where he is going to fire one of his own specially written questions

-at you. Are you ready?

-Yes.

-It is time to take on the Egghead.

Don't be nervous here.

He does look threatening, but if you avert your eyes that helps.

Ollie, let's start you off with something nice and easy.

Take us through your thinking. Have you ever eaten one?

No, never heard of it. I have a feeling it's not an orange.

So we've got plum, pear or apple.

Because I haven't heard of it I'm thinking it might be more

likely to be something like a plum as opposed to an apple which

they tend to be more famous, the types of apple.

I'm going to go for plum. But that's a complete guess.

OK, but good use of logic. Let's see if you've outsmarted CJ.

Correct answer is apple.

Ollie, that's bad.

You're going to lose a life very early in the game.

Please return to the other players.

So I have to take one of the lives off the front of the desk.

Ollie, you're down to one life. Chantal, £400 in the bank so far.

Here's your question. Which disease takes its name from the French word for yellow?

Jaundice.

Jaundice is correct. You speak French, don't you?

-Yes, I'm half French.

-You're half French. OK. Well done. Another £200.

£600 we're on.

OK, Roy, in Greek mythology which creatures are half man, half horse?

I think that's the Minotaur.

BUZZER

-The Minotaur.

-I think that's the Centaur.

Yes. All right.

CJ has got that right.

It does mean, Roy, you've been summoned to the Hot Spot.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

So, Roy:

-Have you read this recently, Roy?

-I haven't read it,

but I have seen the film which has those answers.

Let's see if we can eliminate some. I don't think it's rotting fish.

Or wet carpet. A little bit too parochial that.

I can't see it being burnt toast either.

So I think it must smell like dog's droppings.

-Correct answer is dog's droppings.

-Dog's droppings is right. Well done.

You've preserved both your lives. Please return to the other players.

You can see how it works, team. You've got to keep those lives.

You're on £600. Paul, we're back with you.

In British Scrabble the X tile is worth how many points?

Eight points.

Eight is correct. £800.

Jane, Jenson Button won the World Championship in 2009 driving

for which team?

McLaren.

BUZZER

McLaren. CJ has buzzed.

-Brawn.

-Brawn.

It's quite difficult to guess, Jane, isn't it?

It's time to take on the Egghead.

It goes from one to ten so eight is quite high.

I think that rules out strong breeze, possibly even gale.

I think hurricane is a bit further up. I'll go for storm.

Correct answer is gale.

How can that be if it goes up to ten?

Because it doesn't. It goes to 12.

Oh, Jane, your memory played you false there.

It's given him a chance to gloat.

Please come back to the other players.

We're suffering a bit of attrition here aren't we, Jane?

I have to take one of your lives away.

CJ outsmarted you on the Beaufort Scale. £800 in the bank.

Ollie, who wrote the novels London Fields and Time's Arrow?

-Ernest Hemingway.

-Ernest Hemingway is your answer.

CJ has not buzzed.

-You get away with your wrong answer.

-Martin Amis, CJ.

No, sorry, didn't know that.

So, Ollie, you've survived. Players, you're on £800.

OK, Chantal, Pancake Day is traditionally celebrated

on which day of the week?

Tuesday.

Tuesday is correct. Another £200 in the bank. You've hit the £1,000.

Well done. Roy, here's your question.

Kevin Rudd is a former Prime Minister of which country?

Kevin Rudd is a former Prime Minister of Australia.

Australia is the right answer.

Back to you, Paul. £1,200.

Fingal O'Flahertie Wills were the middle names of which writer?

I'll go for Mark Twain.

BUZZER

-Mark Twain. CJ has buzzed.

-Definitely not Mark Twain.

It's obviously Irish and I cannot think what his name is.

It's James Joyce.

JEREMY LAUGHS

-No, you're completely wrong.

-I don't know.

It's Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. CJ, CJ.

Couldn't think what his name was.

So, Paul, no money for you, but CJ has failed to correct you

so you do not go to the Hot Spot. £1,200 you are on.

Jane, your question.

The front cover of which Beatles studio album shows

the band on a zebra crossing?

Abbey Road.

Abbey Road is the right answer. Well done.

You live to fight another day. £1,400 in the pot. Well done.

You're playing well. Ollie, your question.

Limassol is the second largest city on which island?

Cyprus.

Cyprus is the right answer. £200 goes in the pot.

£1,600 we're up to.

Chantal, in which Olympic event did Britain's Denise Lewis compete?

Toboggan.

BUZZER

-Toboggan.

-It's heptathlon.

He's corrected you, Chantal. I'm afraid it was the heptathlon.

So, Chantal, please go to the Hot Spot.

It is time to face the Egghead.

Chantal, I'm going to ask you a question on my favourite subject.

It's not Sven Goran Eriksson cos he's a later person.

We're going back to 1990.

I'm going to go for Bobby Robson, but it may be wrong.

I'll go for Bobby Robson.

You dug out a name. Let's just see if it's the right name.

-The answer is Bobby Robson.

-Well done. You have preserved your lives.

-Please return to the other players.

-Thank you.

OK. £1,600 in the bank, and, Roy,

let's see if we can add another £200.

Who was famously burnt at the stake in Rouen in May 1431?

I do know this. Just let it settle. It was Joan of Arc.

Joan of Arc is the right answer. You've kept your two lives

and we're on £1,800. Paul, here is your question.

What is the name of the highest military decoration conferred

upon members of the United States Armed Forces?

Is it the Medal Of Honor?

It is the Medal Of Honor. Well done.

You go up to £2,000.

Jane, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had an illustrious career in which sport?

Sailing.

BUZZER

Sailing is your answer. CJ has buzzed.

-Basketball.

-Basketball.

I'm afraid CJ has got it right and you were wrong, Jane,

and you only have one life left. It is time to take on the Egghead.

Right, now, I'd don't think it's Westminster Hall, or City Hall,

or Guild... I think it's the Mansion House.

If this is wrong, Jane, you will be out of the game.

Correct answer is Guildhall.

You were on one life and you now lose your last life.

You are out of the money and out of the game.

The Egghead has taken his revenge.

Ollie, you need to get us moving again.

What is the chemical symbol for gold?

Au.

Au is the right answer. £2,200.

Chantal, Dev Patel and Freida Pinto were the stars of which 2008 film?

Harry Potter...

BUZZER

-You didn't even finish the answer.

-No.

I was going to consider which Harry Potter I was going to say.

What is the film?

Slumdog Millionaire.

-OK, so you have to go on the Hot Spot again.

-Mm hm.

It's time to take on the Egghead.

You did brilliantly last time on the football question,

so let's see how we go.

Chantal:

My husband would know this.

He's always going on about various tall volcanoes.

I don't think that it's either Jupiter or Mars.

Again I'm down to two. Hawaii or Antarctica.

I'm going to go for Antarctica.

The correct answer is Antarctica.

You are playing a storming game, Chantal.

Please return to your fellow players.

-Well done. Well played, Chantal.

-Thank you.

You've got two lives left still.

£2,200 in the bank and, Roy, we go on to you.

Which national football team did Ruud Gullit play for?

I think Ruud Gullit played for the Dutch.

I can accept that. Netherlands. Yes.

Paul, what does the C stand for in the name of the author CS Lewis?

Christopher.

BUZZER

Christopher is your answer. CJ?

I can't remember. I was hoping a few seconds would actually allow

it to come to me. I can't remember.

OK, CJ hasn't got it right, but it's not Christopher. It is Clive.

So we're stuck on £2,400, but you're still playing well.

You do not lose a life or go to the Hot Spot. Ollie, your question now.

Which unit of computer memory is equivalent to 1024 bytes?

One megabyte.

BUZZER

One megabyte says Ollie.

One kilobyte says CJ.

CJ is right. It is a kilobyte.

Ollie, it's time to take on the Egghead.

Well, Ollie, now you're facing your own exit from this game

if you don't get this one correct.

Ollie:

This is one I don't want to mess up because it should be fairly obvious.

My instinct looking immediately would be Lewis Carroll.

I don't want to overthink it so I'm going to stick with that.

I'm going to go with Lewis Carroll.

CJ?

-The answer is Lewis Carroll.

-Lewis Carroll is the answer.

You have frustrated CJ. Well done. You're still in the game, Ollie.

It's very tense here.

Please return to the other players.

So we don't know how long is left.

£2,400 you've amassed so far.

Chantal, your question.

Whose assassination was captured on film by Abraham Zapruder?

I'm not aware of any assassination apart from...

Could be Osama Bin Laden or it could be...

Robert Kennedy.

BUZZER

-Right family, wrong brother. John F Kennedy.

-I said it too quickly.

Yes, Robert Kennedy was assassinated,

but John F Kennedy is right.

It was that film on the grassy knoll and all that. CJ has got that right.

It is time once again, Chantal, to take on the Egghead.

Chantal:

The Titanic. I don't think it's the MS. Or RMS. I don't know.

I don't know what MS or RMS stand for. Royal Marines...

Titanic, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel

and he also designed the SS Great Britain.

I'm going to go for,

on the basis that it was built by Isambard, SS Titanic.

SS Titanic is your answer. CJ?

Yes, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, really(?)

-The correct answer is RMS.

-It was RMS.

What is the history there?

Stands for Royal Mail Ship.

Third question on the Hot Spot, Chantal,

and he has got you on that.

Please return to your fellow players.

You can see him in the middle of the night with a candle writing

those questions, can't you?

I have to take one of your lives away

I'm afraid. £2,400.

Roy, your question.

Who wrote the cookery book One Is Fun?

One Is Fun. Delia Smith.

Delia Smith is the right answer.

Paul, we go over to you. £2,600.

Who wrote the children's book The Very Hungry...?

Ah, we've got no more time

for questions. You are on £2,600.

You've done well. Built up quite a nice pot.

Four of you have survived to play in the final.

Now you've got the chance

to take the money home.

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

So, there is £2,600 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 going home with it.

I'm going to ask CJ ten questions and however many he answers

correctly will become your target to beat.

Here we go with your ten questions, starting with this.

Which actress has been married to Gary Oldman and Ethan Hawke?

Uma Thurman.

How does he do that? He's got it right.

Uma Thurman is correct. You've got the first one right.

Next question, who fought Muhammad Ali in the Rumble In The Jungle

in 1974?

Always get these mixed up.

I don't know this, but I'll have to go for my instinct which is

George Foreman.

-Who are you choosing between?

-Frazier.

People often say Frazier, but they're wrong to.

It is George Foreman.

Well done. Two out of two. Next question.

How was Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better known?

Not a name I know

but I think Rodrigo may have been the first name of Carlos the Jackal.

No. It was El Cid.

-Oh, well.

-Two out of three. Next question.

Who lived in a postbox near 221b Baker Street?

Danger Mouse.

Danger Mouse is correct.

I was hoping you were going to say Sherlock Holmes. Three out of four.

The Battle of St Albans in 1455 marked the start of which war?

The War of the Roses.

War of the Roses is quite right. Four out of five.

Next question. The ibex is a member of which family of mammals?

I know what it is. What family does it come under?

I can't decide whether to say deer or antelope. I'll go for antelope.

I see where you're going with it, but I can't give you that.

The Latin is Bovidae and the answer I wanted was goat.

-Oh.

-The goat family. You've got four out of six. Next question.

Who was the first American to win the Tour de France?

Greg LeMond.

Correct.

Five out of seven.

Which singer born in 1965 has the surname Gudmundsdottir?

That's obviously a Scandinavian name and it is the right age for Bjork.

Is there anybody else? Don't think so. I'll go for Bjork.

Correct. Six out of eight.

Next question.

What type of pastry is typically used to make profiteroles?

-Choux.

-Correct.

-Seven out of nine. He's good, isn't he?

-Yes.

CJ, your last question.

Which Premier League football club did Leighton Baines join in 2007?

Never heard of him.

I have absolutely no idea. Arsenal.

-Anyone know over here?

-I think it is Everton.

Yes, Everton would have been the answer. You've got seven out of ten,

CJ, seven correct answers, that's the target, players.

All right, Paul, Ollie, Chantal and Roy, you have your target,

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

You have got these very handy six lives remaining between you,

if you give me an incorrect answer, I will have to take a life away.

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

you will win the £2,600.

Simple as that.

Shall we play? Here's your first question.

Which comedian and actor often contributed material

to his own shows using the pseudonym Gerald Wiley?

-I think that's Ronnie Barker.

-I was going to say that. I agree. Yes.

The white-haired one is Ronnie Barker, yes.

-Ronnie Corbett is the short one. Ronnie Barker.

-Ronnie Barker.

Ronnie Barker is quite right. The next question.

In which city did the famous

gunfight at the OK Corral take place?

-Trying to think of those Wild West ones. Yes, I know.

-We do know that.

Something beginning with T, maybe.

-Where's the Billy the Kid museum?

-That is down... towards Albuquerque?

-New Mexico?

-Sacramento?

-Too far across.

-Shall we go for New Mexico?

-What shall we go for?

-Alamo. Alamo.

-Shall we go for that?

That's as good as we're going to get.

-The best we can come up with is Alamo.

-Alamo. Let's see if CJ knows.

I thought Chantal was onto it with the letter T. It's Tombstone.

It is. I don't know where the letter T came from, Chantal,

but that was inspired.

You lose a life. You got it wrong. You've got 7 to beat here.

Which country's cars carry the international vehicle

registration code P?

I think PL is Poland so P would naturally lend itself to Portugal.

I was going to say Portugal.

I cannot think of any other countries that begin with a P big enough

to have...

but I think Portugal is correct because I'm sure PL is Poland.

-Go with Portugal.

-OK. Portugal, Jeremy.

-Portugal is the correct answer.

-Yes! Well done.

Two points, chasing CJ's total of seven,

which you have to beat to get the £2,600.

Which Northern Irish golfer won the Open Championship

-at Royal St George's in 2011?

-I know this one.

-Darren Clarke. I'm sure it's Darren Clarke.

-It's not McIlroy?

It's not McIlroy, no, and it's not Graeme McDowell.

Definitely Darren Clarke won it over here. I'm sure it's Darren Clarke.

-Darren Clarke.

-You're right. Darren Clarke.

Next question, Bewick's, mute, whooper

and trumpeter are all species of which bird?

-So it's got to have a big...

-Mute is the key. Mute swans?

There is a mute swan, there is

a trumpeter swan with the thing coming out.

I think a whooper swan. Yes, definitely a swan.

-Swan.

-You're playing very well, it is swan. Not many win in this game.

Let's see if you're going to.

In Greek mythology,

the nymph Echo fell hopelessly in love with which man?

Was the nymph Echo the one who fell in love with Narcissus,

but Narcissus fell in love with himself? Was it that one?

-Is the nymph Echo...?

-Don't have a clue.

-It's very...

I think it's a longish guess on a bit of knowledge, really.

But I do think there was a nymph who fell in love with Narcissus

but he'd already fallen in love with himself.

Shall we go with that? We have nothing else.

-I think that's all we've got.

-Narcissus. We're not sure, Jeremy.

Narcissus.

-Well done, Roy.

-That's a long shot.

-Well done.

-Narcissus is quite right.

You're playing really well here. You've got five points.

CJ had seven.

You've also got five lives left, which could be very important.

Ferenc Puskas, nicknamed the Galloping Major,

scored over 80 goals for which international football team?

Ferenc Puskas, he was the World Cup runner-up, 1954, for Hungary.

He played in the side with Hidegkuti and others. I'm certain it's Hungary.

-Hungary.

-Hungary is correct.

You've now got six points.

You're only one point behind CJ, and you've got lovely five lives left.

Which literary character owns a cat called Crookshanks?

Oh! That's Hermione Granger.

Wait a minute, it's Harry Potter, Crookshanks...

It's going to be the caretaker, isn't it?

Crookshanks is that caretaker's cat, but what's the caretaker's name?

-Is it Fulch?

-Oh, Filch!

-Filch.

Who should we go with? Filch or Hermione?

We've got lots of lives. I'd be very sorry if I'm wrong.

What's your hunch feeling?

My gut, my first one was Hermione, and I really apologise

-if I'm wrong but that was my first feeling.

-Hermione Granger.

-Hermione Granger did have a cat, I'm pretty sure of that.

-OK.

-We'll have Hermione Granger.

-I'm sorry if I'm wrong.

There is a split in the team. Ollie, you're on Filch, are you?

I had a gut instinct it might have been the caretaker.

The caretaker has a cat. Its name is Mrs Norris.

-Phew!

-It was Hermione Granger. Well done. So you've drawn level with CJ.

£2,600, you need another correct answer.

Here's your question.

To which British PM did Mark Twain attribute the phrase,

"there are three kinds of lies - lies, dammed lies and statistics."

-Oh. Mark Twain, British Prime Minister.

-Did he die in about '67?

Yeah, it was around about that time.

-I've got a feeling...

-I thought Mark Twain was the 19th century.

-Who wrote the book about going down the Mississippi?

-Yep, you're on it.

It was the 19th century. OK.

So, British prime ministers of the 19th-century, we've got

Shaftesbury, Disraeli, Gladstone.

Would he know about British prime ministers of that time?

-OK, what will we go for?

-British prime minister...

The 19th-century...

Shaftesbury came into my head first, so I'm going to go for Shaftesbury.

-Give me a first name.

-Oh!

-Lord.

-Lord Shaftesbury.

Lord Shaftesbury is your answer. Let me just check this with CJ.

Mark Twain, dates?

He died in 1910, I think,

-but the quotation is about Benjamin Disraeli.

-It was about Disraeli?

-I'm so sorry.

-No, you were close.

-We've got the lives there.

You were close. You lost a life. You are level with CJ.

Battling on there. Here is your question.

For his role in which 1969 film did Jack Nicholson

receive his first Oscar nomination?

Do you reckon maybe Easy Rider?

That's what came into my head immediately.

-Go with that, go with that.

-I don't know if he did.

If you know, '69,

was that the only film in that decade that you can think of?

Can you think of any other films in the '60s?

When he said '69, it came into my head,

because it's one of Jack Nicholson's earlier films.

-Therefore, that sounds...

-We will go for that.

He did Cuckoo Nest, but that was in the '70s. Yes. OK.

-Easy Rider, Jeremy.

-Your answer is Easy Rider.

If you've got it right, you've pulled past CJ, and you've done that

rare thing of beating the Egghead and taking the money as well.

Jack Nicholson's first Oscar nomination

was for the 1969 film Easy Rider.

Congratulations, with four lives to spare!

-Really well played.

-Did us some good.

You have beaten CJ's target, and you take home the jackpot of £2,600.

Brilliant quizzing. You played really well.

As a team, they worked very well,

I will give them that little nod of appreciation.

Well, there we are, we are enjoying the expression on CJ's face,

and all of your celebrations as well.

Do join us next time when CJ will be doing his best to restore his pride

by crushing another five contestants on Revenge Of The Egghead.

Goodbye!