Episode 13 Revenge of the Egghead

These five contestants hope to walk away

thousands of pounds richer. Standing in their way is one of the most

formidable quizzers to have graced 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 Bernie. I'm an IT service analyst and I am from Liverpool.

I'm Julie, I am a pub landlady and I am from Surrey.

I'm Michael, I am an economics graduate and I am from Loughborough.

I am Asha, I am a finance manager and I am from Croydon.

I'm David, I'm retired and I am from Harrow in Greater London.

Welcome and good luck to all of you.

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

outsmart CJ de Mooi. How are you doing, CJ?

I am exceptionally well, thank you, Jeremy, but then,

again, wouldn't you be if you looked like this?

You have been studying up I know, as you do all the time.

What's the subject now?

Today's subject has been something very fascinating. National airlines.

So if I gave you a country, you could give me the airline.

-Without a shadow of a doubt.

-Well, let's go Bhutan.

-Druk Air.

-Druk Air.

-Druk Air.

-OK, that is what you are up against here.

He's revising, he's learning lists.

Doesn't get out much, but... he's knowledgeable.

What do you make of the five contestants?

I think it's a shame they've come all this distance not to win

-any money.

-All right. Well, the gauntlet has been thrown down.

Let us 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

Once... It is very dramatic, you're right.

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

a particularly difficult question which he has written himself.

They are dastardly.

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

got lit up in front of you 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.

-Simple as that. Shall we get started?

-ALL: Yes.

Bernie, first question to you for £200.

Monkey is a slang term for what amount of money?

£500.

£500 is correct. £200 in the bank. Over to you now, Julie.

In which US state is Death Valley located?

Arizona.

BUZZER

-(Colorado!)

-You paused and CJ has come in, but is CJ right?

California.

California is right, Julie, I'm afraid.

So early in the game as well.

CJ has caught you out and he is looking rather smug as well.

And it means you have to take your place on the hotspot

and face one of his dastardly multiple-choice questions

and risk losing one of those precious lives.

Watch out, these questions are going to be tricky,

because he has written them himself.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

What are you thinking here, CJ? I know you love to catch people out.

Julie, you look like a young, hip person.

-Down with the youth of today.

-God!

Have you got any of those in your mind, Julie?

They're all in my CD collection!

Erm...

The Saturdays.

The Saturdays is your answer. CJ, why did you choose that question?

-Because I knew she'd get it wrong, it's JLS!

-I am sorry, Julie.

That was dastardly, CJ. You lose a life, Julie.

Please return to your fellow players.

All right, so Julie, we take out one of your lights,

you are down to one life. You're still on £200.

You've got nothing from that question, I'm afraid.

Michael, your first question.

What books does a lexicographer compile?

Dictionaries.

Dictionaries is the right answer. Another £200. Well done, Michael.

Up to 400.

Asha, who released the album The Soul Sessions

in 2003 at the age of 16?

Trying to think.

-Don't let CJ scent uncertainty.

-Erm... Amy Winehouse.

BUZZER

-CJ, what do you say?

-It's Joss Stone.

Joss Stone is the right answer. Asha, I am sorry.

Your first question and CJ has caught you out so you will have

to take your place on the hotspot as well and answer

one of his multiple-choice questions and risk losing a life.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

-CJ.

-Hello, Asha.

-Hi!

Here's a nice kindergarten level question for you!

-2.161.

-Oh, you said that with great conviction.

Doesn't make it right.

4.546.

Asha, you went straight in on the first answer there,

-I was certain you were right.

-Yes, I thought it was.

-Was he putting you off?

-No. Give as good as he gets.

All right, that is the right attitude but I am sorry.

CJ has done it and it does mean

because you got his question wrong, you will lose a life.

-Please return to your fellow players.

-OK.

If I could just point out

though, if Asha thinks she is giving as good as she gets, why am I

giving right answers and she's giving the wrong answers?

Don't be put off by this heckling from the stalls, OK.

Asha, I am sorry you got the question wrong

and you do now lose a life.

You are still on £400 as a result but keep playing, keep in there.

David, in the lucky position at being on the end of the row here.

How are you feeling about this game?

I am feeling a little bit of trepidation, Jeremy.

-Trouble is, he enjoys it, that's the trouble.

-I know.

Here's your question.

What is the name of the house where John Prescott was photographed

playing croquet in 2006?

That was a house in the south of England.

I think it was some sort of...

ancestral home.

Oh! Hambledon House.

BUZZER

Hambledon House. Hambledon House, CJ.

It's not and unfortunately I'm not absolutely sure.

-Oh, I'll go for Clevedon!

-Clevedon, no, you're wrong.

-Is it Chieveley?

-No, it's not Chieveley. It's Dorneywood.

-Ahh!

How about that, David? You've got the rub of the green, there.

You were wrong, he knew you were wrong,

but he didn't have the right answer, so you don't add any

money to the bank, but you don't have to go to the hotspot

and face one of CJ's questions. Your lives stay intact.

Bernie, we are back with you now.

The Jungfrau is a well-known peak in which country?

I'll go for...

China.

BUZZER

That well-known German word being in China, no!

-I will go for Switzerland.

-Switzerland is the right answer.

So now you are in a bit of peril, Bernie. Lives in the balance here.

Time to face the Egghead.

You missed out on Bernie the first time round, CJ.

What are you thinking about his strong and weak areas?

I'm guessing basic language skills aren't one of his strengths!

-Definitely not.

-Bernie...

Right, I know it was one of the Irish ones.

I will go for Dublin.

Dublin is your answer. So you have read Bram Stoker, have you?

Yes, I know it's definitely one of those two.

OK, you have gone Dublin or Belfast and you've gone Dublin.

Now let's see if you are going to upset CJ now.

-It's Dublin.

-You have upset him!

All right. Well done, Bernie.

You've gone onto the hotspot, you've preserved both your lives,

-please return to your fellow players.

-Thank you.

Your team is on 400, you can make more money here. You've got to try

and make some more money. Julie, your question.

New Craven Park is the home ground of which rugby league club?

-Warrington.

-Warrington, you say.

-Don't look at me.

-You don't play any rugby, do you?

-I don't play any sports, never have done.

-OK.

You didn't know it was Hull Kingston Rovers?

I didn't even know they were a team.

It's the incorrect answer, Julie, but he didn't challenge you

so he doesn't get to call you to the hotspot and give you one of his

devilish questions. You're still on £400.

Michael, come on, let's get this money up.

Who wrote the science-fiction novel I, Robot?

William Burroughs.

BUZZER

William Burroughs, you say. CJ?

The most famous science-fiction author of all time - Isaac Asimov.

The Egghead is right, I'm afraid, Michael, so you are going to have to

face one of his questions. It is time to face the Egghead.

OK, CJ. You've shuffled through your list.

Do you look for the hardest one or how do you do it?

This team have had eight questions and got two right.

I don't think it really matters which one I choose.

Michael...

Any inkling, any glimmer, there, Michael?

Erm...torn between fish and dog.

I think I'm going to go dog.

OK, dog is the answer, CJ, I hope.

-Dog is indeed the answer.

-Michael, well done.

So you could have lost a life but you haven't

because you got the question right on the hotspot. Well done.

Please return to your fellow players.

OK, you are still on £400. This is the problem.

Asha, we need to move this money up. OK?

We want to be playing for more in the final.

In 1995, Alan Rusbridger became editor of which national newspaper?

The Guardian.

The Guardian is the right answer.

£600. Now you have got £200 from that, Asha. Well done.

David, your question.

Roy Plomley is perhaps best remembered as the inventor

of which radio programme first broadcast in 1942?

Desert Island Discs.

Desert Island Discs is correct. £800.

Bernie, we're back to you, back to the start of the line.

See if you can put another £200 on. Here's your question.

Which sporting trophy was once known as the Royal Yacht Squadron's

100 Guinea Cup in 1851?

The America's Cup.

America's Cup is quite right. Another £200. Up to £1,000.

See, CJ, you laughed at them. Look at this. They're making some money.

Julie, your question.

Who wrote the plays The Madness of George III and The History Boys?

John McGrath.

BUZZER

No, it's not that made-up name at all. It's Alan Ayckbourn!

Ha-ha! That is so funny. You got it wrong.

-Oh, dear. It's Alan Bennett!

-Yes.

-Ohhh!

Ohh!

How about that, Julie? It is Alan Bennett who wrote The History Boys

and The Madness of George III. He's breaking for you, well done.

OK. Michael, let's add some money. Still on 1,000.

We didn't get money from that last question. Here we go.

Which US sitcom was famously dubbed, "the show about nothing"?

Seinfeld.

Seinfeld is correct. So you are on £1,200. Well done, Michael.

You've earned some money there. Asha, your question.

Who became Poet Laureate in 1984?

My mind has just gone blank. I do know it.

I can't think of anyone now!

George Orwell!

-George Orwell for Poet Laureate?

-I don't know where that came from.

Plus he died in 1950!

It is either Betjeman or Hughes and for '84, because I think

Masefield was there from '65 for a long time so I'll go John Betjeman.

-You'd be wrong, CJ.

-It's Hughes.

-Ted Hughes. Your 50-50s are not good.

How about that, Asha? You are still on £1,200. David, your question.

The spy Bernard Samson is the creation of which writer?

John Le Carre.

John Le Carre is your answer.

It is wrong, it's Len Deighton, but obviously CJ didn't know that.

Not heard of him.

Not read many books, really, so not called onto the hotspot

but you didn't make £200 for that question.

We go back to the front of the line and Bernie.

Stadium Arcadium is a 2006 album by which American rock band, Bernie?

-Red Hot Chili Peppers.

-Red Hot Chili Peppers is quite right.

£200 to you, 1,400 in total. We're steaming on. Here we are, Julie.

Which writer created the Mars adventurer John Carter?

John Crichton.

BUZZER

-John Crichton.

-More famous for creating Tarzan,

Edgar Rice Burroughs.

-You have got it right, now.

-Oh, right. It is about time, wasn't it?

OK, Julie, I am sorry.

He challenged you, he was right in his challenge,

it was indeed Edgar Rice Burroughs.

So you're going to have to go to the hotspot and face the Egghead.

Now let me remind you here, Julie, you have only one life left.

You've got to get this question right. CJ, some mercy, surely?

Julie...

I am going to go for Catch Me If You Can.

OK, Catch Me If You Can is your answer.

Steven Soderbergh directed Out Of Sight.

All the others are by Steven Spielberg.

Oh, dear, that is another wrong answer and unfortunately that

was your last life, so Julie, thank you very much for playing.

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

-The Egghead has had his revenge.

-Thank you.

Oh! It's painful to lose somebody.

There are now fewer to share any money left in the final

but of course, the more brains you have, the more chances you

have of taking the money home.

You're still on £1,400 and Michael, we are back with you.

Pt is the symbol for which metallic element?

Pewter.

Pewter is your answer.

-Pewter is not an element.

-Go on.

-Platinum.

-Platinum is the right answer so CJ's caught you out there

and you are going to have to answer one of his fiendish questions.

Please go to the hotspot. It's time to face the Egghead.

-OK, well, you have still got your two lives, Michael?

-Yeah.

You're now facing the man you fear and admire?

-Erm...respect.

-Respect.

-Yes.

I'll take that!

Michael...

Erm, I think it is the virginal.

All right, virginal is the answer, CJ.

Almost positive it isn't, because the answer is dulcimer.

Michael, sorry. He's caught you out. These questions are fiendish

because all of the answers there were obscure.

Please return to your fellow players.

I can only apologise. We have to take one of your lives away now.

Your team did not make money from that question.

£1,400O is in the bank, let's see if we can add to it. Asha, come on.

The llama is a pack animal native to which continent?

-South America.

-South America is correct. £1,600 you're on.

David, your question.

Which word taken from the Greek terms for wolf and man

is commonly used as an alternative name for a werewolf?

I can't think of anything.

At all, but I'll have to have a guess and say...

-GERMAN ACCENT:

-Vulf-mann!

-Your answer was...

-Vulf-mann.

-In a kind of German accent!

A sort of a German accent!

BUZZER

-It's wolfman in a German accent but you don't know, do you?

-I don't.

Obviously, it's... Is it going to come from something like Lycos?

-I will guess at lycosandra.

-Close, but it's lycanthrope.

-Yes, it is.

-All right, David, you've got off three times running.

What's going on? You've got two lives, still,

so no money banked there.

£1,600 we're on, we're back to the front of the line, to you, Bernie.

Here's your question.

Ich dien is the motto for which member of the Royal Family?

Prince Charles.

The Prince of Wales is correct. Well done, Prince Charles.

£1,800 in the bank. Michael, your question.

The Egyptian obelisk on London's Victoria Embankment

is known by what name?

Nelson's Column.

BUZZER

Nelson's Column is your answer.

Jolly good, but it's still Cleopatra's Needle.

The Egyptian part, it is Cleopatra's Needle,

so now, a bit of danger here. OK. It is time to face the Egghead.

You've got one life left and if you get this wrong, Michael,

you'll go the same way as Julie.

Michael...

Mmm. I don't think it's an insect.

That's a bit too obvious.

I am going to go mushroom.

-You're going mushroom, to stay in the contest?

-Yeah.

You may not be a fun guy, but it is a mushroom!

You've got it right and you are still in! Well done.

You can return to your fellow players. Your life is intact.

Time is running out. You're still on £1,800.

Quite a bit of money to share in the final. You've got four left so far.

Asha, your question. The famous Dome of the Rock is in which city?

-Jerusalem.

-Jerusalem is correct. £2,000 you have got.

David, let's see what we can do.

Baron Hardup is a character in which traditional pantomime?

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, you say.

Cinderella's the answer but David, I don't know how you're doing this.

You got it wrong, he didn't know, even though

every winter he's in a panto of some kind. Bernie, back to you.

In which century was the Mary Celeste found

abandoned in the Atlantic?

16th century.

-CJ, what do you think it is?

-No, it's much later than that.

-I'm not sure, but I will go for 19th.

-Yes, 19th is the right answer.

I was thinking of the Mary Rose, I was getting mixed up.

Yeah, of course the Mary Rose was the Henry VIII ship.

19th century was the Mary Celeste,

so you are going to have to face CJ on the hotspot.

Let's see what happens when you face the Egghead.

CJ, picking them at random or strategy here?

I am trying to find a difficult one because I've had enough of this.

There are too many lives left intact there. Bernie...

OK, erm... I don't think it's blood poisoning.

I will go for a runny nose.

Good, it's blood poisoning.

You ruled out the correct answer first.

I'm afraid it is blood poisoning.

Please return to your fellow players.

Bernie, you have been almost bombproof so far,

but you are now losing a life.

We take one out and you made no money from that question.

Michael, on to you. £2,000 you are on.

See what you can do with this question.

The footballer Samir Nasri plays for which international team?

-France.

-France is correct.

I knew you were going to get that right. £2,200. Well done.

Asha, the official languages of the Finland are Finnish and which other?

English.

BUZZER

-Oh, CJ's come in there.

-It can't be English, can it?

The language that is most similar to Finnish is Estonian.

No, you've got it wrong as well.

Swedish is the answer, in fact, so Asha, you are OK.

Didn't make any money there but you do not lose a life.

CJ has not challenged you successfully. David, your question.

In the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle, who jumped over the moon?

It was the cow, Jeremy.

The cow is the right answer. £2,400 your team is on. Well done.

Oh, hang on. That's it. No more time.

That was the last question

and four of you have survived to play in the final round.

You've built up a prize pot of 2,400

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

There is one problem, ladies and gentlemen.

You have to beat the Egghead.

So, there is £2,400 up for grabs and four 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 am sure that won't surprise you.

So I am going to ask CJ ten general knowledge questions.

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

-You ready, CJ?

-I will confess to being a little bit nervous.

Four people, five lives, is a potent combination,

but I will do my hardest.

Well, without further ado CJ, let's play.

Your first question. Bishkek is the capital of which country?

I always get these the wrong way round.

-Tajikistan.

-The answer is Kyrgyzstan.

Always get them the wrong way round.

-Was that the other one in your mind?

-Yes.

-Nothing right so far.

Your second question. Who became Archbishop of York in 2005?

-John Sentamu.

-John Sentamu is right. Well done. One out of two.

The Book of Kells is on permanent display in the library

of which famous college?

-Trinity.

-Trinity College is right. Two correct answers.

Question four. An Unearthly Child was the title of the first ever

episode of which long-running BBC series?

-Doctor Who.

-Doctor Who's quite right. Three out of four.

Playing well. Question five. Which explorer was the son

of Erik the Red?

That I don't know.

So let's go for...

Oh, I don't know this, erm...

-Leif Ericson.

-I was worried you were going to get it right.

Leif Ericson is the right answer. How did he do that?

Pulled it out of nothing. OK. Four out of five.

Impressive. Question six, CJ.

Which mineral with the chemical formula FeS2 is also

known as fool's gold?

-FeS2...

-Just to be clear it's big F,

-small e, big S, two.

-Iron pyrites.

I will accept that.

You could have said pyrite or iron pyrite or iron sulphide.

So, five out of six. Question seven.

In 2002, which DJ was the winner of the first UK series of

I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here?

-Tony Blackburn.

-Tony Blackburn is quite right.

That's six out of seven. Which famous monument stands

-on what was formerly known as Bedlow's Island?

-Statue of Liberty.

Statue of Liberty is right. Seven out of eight. Question nine.

Vladimir and Estragon are the two main characters in which 1953 play?

-They are in Waiting for Godot.

-Waiting for Godot is right.

You've got eight out of nine. Your last question.

Which former child star served as US ambassador to

Czechoslovakia from 1989 to '92?

Oh! That's not the way I thought that question was going to go.

Now, Shirley Temple was a UN ambassador but she went to Ghana.

Did she also go to Czechoslovakia?

Don't know it, but you hear child star you immediately think

of Shirley Temple.

Shirley Temple is the right answer.

Nine out of ten.

All right, that was impressive by our Egghead, wasn't it?

That is why he is an Egghead. Quite a lot of knowledge in there.

So, Bernie, Michael, Asha and David, you have your target.

You can now work together as a team to beat it.

You've got five lives remaining which is very good indeed.

Give me an incorrect answer, you will lose one of those lives.

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

you will win the £2,400.

Shall we play? Your first question.

Which Egyptian President shared the 1972 Nobel Peace Prize with

Menachem Begin of Israel?

I don't know his full name but it was Nasser. I'm sure. President Nasser.

-President Nasser.

-President Nasser is wrong.

It's Anwar Sadat.

-The other one.

-He was assassinated afterwards.

-Sorry, guys.

So, you lose a life. Down to four lives now.

You've got to get to CJ's target of nine.

What was the nickname of Don Estelle's character Gunner Sugden

in the sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum?

Oh...

Was it the one who was dressed up as a woman?

I can picture him but I...

HE MIMICS THE ACTOR

Have to say Gladys or something like that. I think it was a woman's name.

-Gladys?

-It's not Gladys. Do you know this, CJ?

-No, actually I thought was Gladys.

-Oh!

-Lofty.

-Lofty.

-Lofty.

So none out of two. You lose a life, team.

You're down to three lives now.

You've got to beat CJ's total of nine to keep this money.

The painter Johannes Vermeer spent the majority of his working

life in which city?

-He was Dutch, wasn't he?

-He was Dutch.

-He was Dutch.

-The obvious one's Amsterdam.

-Shall I say that?

-Amsterdam rather than Rotterdam.

-Amsterdam.

-It's close but it's Delft.

-OK.

You lose another life. So down to two lives.

£2,400 we are playing for. Just put your heads together here.

Who is the star of the films Hard Target,

Sudden Death and Knock Off?

-They sound like Jean-Claude Van Damme.

-Gangster movie type things.

Err... I've not heard of them, I've never seen any of 'em.

Steven Seagal has been in a lot of stuff.

-Go with Steven Seagal.

-Steven Seagal.

-It's not.

I am feeling your pain here because the right name came up.

-Jean-Claude Van Damme.

-Yeah, Jean-Claude Van Damme.

-We said him.

Michael had it and then you just drifted.

You lose another life, players.

If you get one more question wrong, the game is over

and CJ has won.

Which 1667 treaty brought to an end the second Anglo Dutch War?

Oh, this was after the Great Fire of London, wasn't it?

Do you think Amsterdam or Maastricht? I don't think it's Maastricht.

No, I don't think it's Maastricht.

-I'm not going to get it?

-Rotterdam, we said Rotterdam before.

The port, if they'd been fighting off the coast they might come in.

Rotterdam.

-Rotterdam Treaty.

-The Treaty of Rotterdam.

If you are wrong... then you lose your last life

and the game is over

and the money has been swept away by our Egghead in his horrible revenge.

-The answer is Treaty of Breda.

-Never heard of it.

You lose your last life. I am sorry to say players,

that CJ has won.

Well, you have come up against the Egghead there

and it's my painful duty to say congratulations to him.

You've certainly shown why you are an Egghead, CJ.

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

another five contestants on Revenge of the Egghead.

Goodbye.