Episode 15 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 James, and head of commercial operations and I'm from Bradford.

I'm Julian, I'm a geologist and I'm from Westhoughton, Lancashire.

I'm Valerie, I'm a retired secretary and I'm from Dorset.

I'm Dan, I'm a musician from Gwent.

I'm Janet, I'm an aspiring writer

and I'm from Askam-in-Furness in Cumbria.

Welcome and best of luck to you all.

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

to outsmart CJ de Mooi.

I guess you've been revising something, have you?

One of the things that comes up time and time

and time again are airport codes,

the three digit codes for the international airports.

I've been looking at those.

So Paris, for example?

Is blatantly obvious, CDG, Charles de Gaulle.

-OK, Tokyo?

-Narita airport, so it's NRT.

You'd never guess that, would you?

-No, it's very difficult.

-OK. Well, there we are, maybe it'll come up.

Probably it won't. Don't let that worry you.

What do you make of this line-up, CJ?

-Pathetic... Easy.

-Honestly, honestly! Listen to that.

You can prove him wrong, contestants.

We're going to get started now, here's how it works.

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 SOUNDS

He hits his buzzer and the lights flash.

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 those two lives lit up

in 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.

Happy with that? Let's play.

James, you have the first question.

The bearded Bluto is the main rival of which cartoon character?

Yogi Bear.

Yogi Bear is your answer. No, you're wrong.

Popeye is the answer.

CJ didn't know, he didn't buzz.

Preserved your two lives, but you make no money from that answer.

OK, your question, Julian.

Which ship was badly damaged by fire in 2007,

while in dry dock in Greenwich?

I believe that was the Cutty Sark.

Cutty Sark is the correct answer, well done to you.

£200 in the pot.

Valerie, which American politician received

the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007?

Barack Obama.

-Barack Obama is the wrong answer.

-It's not.

-CJ has gone to sleep over there.

-It's too early for Obama.

It's Al Gore.

But CJ didn't know the answer, either,

so you are not pulled out of the hotspot.

No money from that answer, though. Still on £200.

Dan, in which decade did the pound note

cease to be legal tender in England?

The 1970s.

BUZZER SOUNDS

-1970s. CJ?

-1980s.

1980s is the correct answer from CJ.

CJ has caught you out, which means you have to

take your place on the hotspot and face one of his multiple-choice

questions and risk losing one of those precious lives.

Watch out, Dan, these are particularly tricky

because he has written them himself.

It is time to face the Egghead.

-So you're a musician, Dan.

-I am, indeed.

Playing which instrument?

-The guitar.

-Guitar, OK.

You can turn it up to 11, if he outsmarts you on this one.

Just blast him out of the studio. CJ, what are you thinking for Dan?

I am thinking a little bit of science and nature for you, Dan.

What are you thinking, Dan, what have they got?

I'm trying to think of the difference between a sea lion

and a seal, really.

I think they've both got whiskers,

so I'm going to discount that for now.

I think they've both got ears, they must both have ears.

I'm not really sure what fluke means, to be honest with you.

So I think I'm going to have a punt for fur.

You've gone for fur.

Let's see if you preserve both your lives. CJ.

The correct answer is ears.

That is an absolutely wicked set of options, CJ, if I may say so.

It means you lose a life. Please return to your fellow players, Dan.

Ooof!

And for the poorly educated, a fluke is like a tail,

the shape of a dolphin or whale's tail.

Right. Dan, we take a life away.

We're still on £200, players.

Janet, here's your question.

In Doctor Who, which actor played the eighth

incarnation of the Doctor in a one-off TV film?

-Patrick Troughton.

-BUZZER SOUNDS

Patrick Troughton. CJ?

He was too busy being dead at the time.

-Paul McGann.

-Paul McGann is the correct answer.

Janet, he's caught you out, so he's going to ask you one of those

dastardly questions on the hot spot.

It is time to face the Egghead.

OK, don't be nervous here, just face him down, be confident.

Let's have another bit of science and nature for you, Janet.

Well, what are you thinking there?

Well, it was back in the '60s...

I'm going to guess at 33.

33.

CJ, is she right?

It's 30...

8.

You were very nearly there, Janet.

Please return to your fellow players.

So, when you say "very nearly there", you mean

she picked one of the three wrong ones, rather than the one right one?

I did, but I'm trying to cushion the blow.

Janet, I'm sorry, you lose a life.

OK. Janet, don't worry, hang on in there. You've got a life left.

You're doing fine. We need to get a bit more money in the pot, though.

-£200 at this stage is...

-Awful.

Maybe not roaring ahead, let's just say that. James, back with you.

Jazz musician Thelonious Monk was most famous for playing which instrument?

Trumpet.

-BUZZER

-Trumpet is your answer. CJ?

-Piano.

-Piano is the correct answer. James, I'm sorry.

You're going to have to face one of CJ's special questions.

It's time to go to the Hotspot and take on the Egghead.

-You describe yourself as a head of commercial operations.

-Yes.

I look at the psychology of cards.

-I work in the card industry, the greeting card industry.

-Oh, really?

Work out how people buy cards and why they buy cards.

-Still going strong, that industry?

-Yeah, it's a massive market. Billion pounds a year.

-On average, people send 53 cards a year.

-Do they really?

I bet YOU don't.

Probably be a stretch to send ONE and that would be to himself.

Let's try a bit of fine art for you, James.

Hmm...

Dadaism... I don't think it was Warsaw.

I don't think it was Zurich.

Not massive art areas.

I would go for...Utrecht.

Utrecht. CJ.

The answer is Zurich.

Zurich is the right answer. Sorry, James. He's caught you out.

Dastardly options there. Please return to your fellow players.

The most interesting thing about Dada is how they chose the name.

The people who had this new idea for the arts movement

literally opened up a dictionary at random and pointed to a word,

and that word was Dada, which means "hobbyhorse".

OK.

All right. James, you lose a life.

Here's where we are.

Three of you are only on one life.

You're hanging on the edge.

We've been down the line once and you've still only got £200.

See if you can get some more money in the pot.

Julian, in mineralogy, Mohs Scale is used to measure what?

It's the hardness of minerals.

He's a geologist!

LAUGHTER

-I'm not going to buzz on that one.

-The hardness is the right answer.

The geologist gets the geology question.

You've got another £200. £400 in the pot.

OK, Valerie.

The 1964 painting Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But...

is a work by which pop artist?

Andy Warhol.

BUZZER

-CJ has buzzed.

-I don't think it is. I think it's Roy Lichtenstein.

Roy Lichtenstein is correct. CJ has got it right. But you weren't sure.

I was fairly sure it wasn't Warhol

and Lichtenstein is the only other one.

OK, it is Lichtenstein.

It's not Warhol, Valerie, you have to go on the Hotspot and take on the Egghead.

We're getting the hang of this now, Valerie.

Just hang on in there with your two lives.

Oh, as much as I hate to do it, let's go back to my very, very

favourite subject of US presidents.

Oh.

Valerie...

It's going to have to be a guess, because I really don't know.

I'm going to say Franklin Roosevelt.

Is she right?

It's Grover Cleveland.

Grover Cleveland is the answer, Valerie.

Please return to your fellow players.

Valerie, I'm afraid you lose a life. I would have gone for Roosevelt.

There are two Roosevelts, that the confusion.

Theodore at the start of the 20th century, Roosevelt in the middle.

Franklin Roosevelt served three and a little bit terms before he died in 1945.

OK, £400. You need to get a bit more money in the pot, if possible.

Dan, down to you now. Framboise is the French word for which fruit?

-Framboise.

-Strawberries.

BUZZER

-Dan says strawberry.

-Raspberry.

Raspberry it is.

It was very close, Dan, but wrong.

You're going to have to go to the Hotspot

and risk losing your last life.

It is time to face the Egghead.

So this is now a little bit critical here, Dan. You've got one life left.

If you get this answer wrong, you will have lost it and be gone.

OK, CJ, what question is it?

It's science and nature for you, isn't it, Dan?

Absolutely no idea on this one.

It's going to have to be a complete guess.

We are shocked.

I'm going to say Horse,

because I think there's probably a lot of different kinds of horses,

as there probably are the other ones, but maybe more so for horses.

Really tough question, CJ.

And Dan's last life is hanging on the answer here.

If he's wrong he'll be gone.

But it's Pig.

Oh, that's a shame.

Another wrong answer, Dan.

And it was your second,

so you lose another life and we say thanks for playing.

I'm afraid you are out of the money and out of the game.

The Egghead has taken his revenge.

Oh, what a nice fellow. The gap has opened up now.

It's a dramatic reminder of the damage this man can do -

evict you from the game.

Come on, Janet. Your question.

Cosmo Kramer, played by Michael Richards,

was a character in which TV sitcom?

It's someone I've never heard of. Frasier?

BUZZER

-CJ?

-Seinfeld.

Seinfeld is the right answer. Janet...

I'm sorry for his tone.

You are going to have to go to the Hotspot and take on another CJ question.

It's time to face the Egghead.

OK, Janet, what do you do for a living?

-At the moment, I'm an aspiring writer.

-Lovely!

-Will you write a piece about meeting CJ or...?

-I might, yeah.

There's quite a bit of material there.

I think there's plenty there, yes.

Let's have a bit of sport for you, Janet.

Stay confident here, Janet. We want you to stay in the game.

It's taken a lot of hits, this team.

Janet, something to think about on your imminent journey home.

Er...

It's not a sport that I know an awful lot about.

But I would guess it would be gold.

Gold is your answer. CJ.

Is Janet still with us?

The correct answer is gold.

Well done, Janet.

You saved your life. Please return to your fellow players.

Finally, a blind guess lands.

Well, it was right in the middle of the target.

LAUGHTER

There goes the other rib(!)

I did archery at school, so I know it was gold. I never hit it, though.

Let's see where we are. £400. You stayed in, the four of you,

but those lives are really precious in the final. Please hang onto them.

CJ is champing at the bit to get you all out.

You've got to stop him. James,

Southend-on-Sea is a town in which English county?

It's in Essex.

Essex is the right answer, James. Well done.

£200 in the pot, up to £600.

-Julian, I wish I could give you another geology question.

-So do we!

Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malpalquet are the names

of famous 18th-century victories for which soldier and duke?

-The Duke of Marlborough?

-The Duke of Marlborough.

BUZZER

-CJ?

-The Duke of Cumberland?

No, you're right, Julian. You're playing a stormer there.

CJ is wrong, it was the Duke of Marlborough.

So not only do I give you £200 for that answer,

but you get another 100, because he messed it up.

You're on 900.

Now, the next correct answer takes you over 1,000 and then we can

get cracking, get some money in the pot.

Valerie, here's your question -

who was the UK's Home Secretary from 1985 to 1989?

Kenneth Clarke.

BUZZER

Kenneth Clarke is your answer. CJ?

-John Major?

-No, neither of you are right. Douglas Hurd is the answer.

I thought he was earlier.

Douglas Hurd.

So, you're not called to the Hotspot, Valerie,

because CJ didn't know.

We're are going back to the Thatcher years there.

I thought Douglas Hurd was at the beginning of the Thatcher term.

OK. £900 in the pot. Who's going to take it over 1,000?

Janet, maybe it's you. Who wrote the 1959 novel, The Naked Lunch?

Pass.

BUZZER

-CJ?

-William Burroughs.

William Burroughs is the right answer, Janet. Sorry.

You have to go on the Hotspot again, and we know what's going to happen,

he's going to try and get you out. Stay in

It's time to face the Egghead.

I do like it when an aspiring writer gets an author question wrong,

-don't you?

-Well, it was a long time ago, in fairness, CJ.

For a start, it's probably within Janet's lifetime and, secondly,

never, ever, ever an excuse.

Because otherwise you wouldn't know about kings and queens.

OK.

All right, Janet, let's try and end your hopes with this.

Again, not one of my strongest subjects.

I'm going to guess at Miami.

OK, Miami. I think that's definitely in Florida.

Is it right or do we have to say goodbye to Janet, CJ?

The answer is Tallahassee.

Janet, I'm sorry, another wrong answer.

Your second life has gone and we have to say thanks for playing.

It's been lovely to see you.

You're out of the game and out of the money.

Unfortunately, the Egghead over here has taken his revenge.

Right...

So, two have gone now.

Mind you, Julian in the middle has got two lives left.

He's proving pretty impregnable. On £900, close to 1,000.

James, here's your question -

All Things Must Pass is a solo album by which former Beatle?

George Harrison.

George Harrison is correct. £1,100. I knew you would get that.

OK, Julian, the flag of Bulgaria contains the colours

green, red and which other?

White.

White is correct. I'm sensing a quizzer here!

Another 200. Up to 1,300.

Valerie, who was the first European golfer to win

the US Masters on three occasions?

Nick Faldo.

Nick Faldo is right. Well done, Valerie.

£1,500 you're on. Now we are storming ahead. Look at this.

James, who played the role of John Hannibal Smith in the 1980s

TV show the A Team?

George Peppard.

George Peppard is absolutely right. Well done, another 200. 1,700.

Can you get above 2,000? Klaxon could go at any time.

Julian, Addis Ababa is the capital of which country?

Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is right. Another 200. Up to 1,900.

Valerie, what is the English meaning of the Latin phrase

"Vene, vidi, vici"?

"I came, I saw, I conquered."

Yes, or as they said in the Carry On films,

"I came, I saw, I conked out."

VALERIE CHUCKLES

-Another £200. You're up to 2,100.

-CJ YAWNS

He cares.

He's not bored, he's worried, because he knows you're

building up money and going to play well in the final

and smash him all round the park.

James, for £200, who played Hawkeye Pierce in the sitcom M*A*S*H?

Alan Alda.

Alan Alda is correct. Another 200.

£2,300. What was keeping you back all that time?

Julian, your question - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

are two minor characters in which Shakespeare play?

Hamlet.

Hamlet is right.

£200 more, takes you to £2,500. Really good play.

Valerie, who captained the England men's cricket team

in the 2013-2014 Ashes campaign?

Michael Vaughan?

BUZZER

CJ has buzzed at last.

-Alistair Cook.

-Alistair Cook is the right answer. Oh, this is painful.

You just ploughed tons of money into the pot

and now you risk going out, Valerie.

You have to go on the Hotspot and face the Egghead.

Oh, my heart is beating here, Valerie.

Please stay in, because you earned a lot of that money yourself.

You've got one life left. If you get this wrong you will be out.

-And that seems very unfair to me.

-I understand.

CJ, can you be soft and gentle here, please?

I would really like to get Valerie out.

-Well, let's see.

-That's a compliment.

That's as close as it gets to a compliment in this neighbourhood.

Let's try...

..music.

Pop music is not my thing, so I'm just going to have to guess again.

And I'm going to say drums.

Bill Wyman on the drums for the Rolling Stones. Right...

-If you got this wrong, Valerie, you know what happens.

-I'm afraid so.

Let's hope you've got it right. CJ.

The correct answer is...

..bass guitar.

Bass guitar, Valerie. I'm so sorry.

So, your second wrong answer there on the Hotspot means your

last life goes. You're out of the money and out of the game.

The Egghead over here, who looks rather smug, I must say,

has taken his revenge.

CJ has also broken up that storming run that you were on.

£2,500 you've built up and let's see...

KLAXON

Oh! So no more questions before the final. That was the klaxon.

We've had our last question.

Two of you have survived to play in the Final.

You've built up a prize pot of £2,500. Very good.

Now you have the chance to take that money home.

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

So, there is £2,500 up for grabs and two 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.

Now, 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?

Oh, I think so.

You're up against two good people here with three lives.

I'm up against two people here with JUST three lives,

I think is what you meant to say.

Overconfidence is one of his least appealing characteristics,

gentlemen. You can show him here. You can win the money.

And you've got quite a good prize pot, as well.

OK, CJ, put your money where your mouth is.

Your ten questions start here.

Which comedian played Father Dougal McGuire in the sitcom Father Ted?

Ardal O'Hanlon.

Ardal O'Hanlon is the right answer.

The long pause there is because

he's waiting for his jacket to come back into fashion.

One answer right out of one. Your second question -

the novel Brave New World takes its title from a quote from which play?

This is annoying, because I don't know the answer,

but something popped into my head.

I'm just trying to...

search through my little filing cabinet to think why that's coming

to my mind.

I'll try Henry V.

You're wrong. It's The Tempest.

-Oh, yes.

-You've got one out of two. Next question -

the word "oviform" describes something shaped like what?

Egg.

Egg is correct. Two out of three.

Cleethorpes is a coastal resort in which county?

Why are you pulling a silly face?

This will be English geography, don't you think?

I wouldn't be able to say. I never add to the question.

Lincolnshire.

You're right, Cleethorpes is in Lincolnshire. I'm sorry.

He's terrible at English geography. How that happened I've got no idea.

OK, you've got three out of four.

Jonny Lee Miller was which Oscar-winning actress's

first husband?

Angelina Jolie.

Angelina Jolie is the right answer.

Four out of five. Next question -

in 1962, Uganda gained independence from which country?

The United Kingdom.

That's right, the United Kingdom.

Five out of six.

Evangelista Torricelli invented which scientific instrument?

Thermometer.

No, you're wrong.

-Barometer is the answer.

-Oh, is it?

You've got five out of seven. CJ, next question -

"I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window"

is the first line of which 1968 hit single?

It should be Delilah, but let me just check.

Delilah.

Yeah, you're right.

It's very hard to read that out without singing it!

OK, six out of eight.

Which actor was the first

artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain?

Again, it should be Olivier, but let me have a little think.

-Laurence Olivier.

-Laurence Olivier is right, CJ.

Seven out of nine.

And last question of your ten -

which pop singer was born Declan McManus?

One of your favourites, Elvis Costello.

Yes, he is my hero and you can't get two points for that,

but Elvis Costello is the right answer. OK.

Eight out of ten, CJ. Do you think that's going to be beatable?

It should be OK.

I'm a little annoyed about the Brave New World,

but eight is a good target.

Well...James and Julian, this is your moment. You have your target.

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

You have three lives remaining between you.

Give me an incorrect answer and you lose a life.

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

you win the £2,500.

Let us play, gentlemen, and good luck.

Who wrote The Avengers Of Tom Sawyer?

-Mark Twain.

-Mark Twain.

Mark Twain.

Mark Twain is correct. One point to you.

The hormone glucagon is produced in which organ of the body?

Which ones to do with breakdown of sugar?

The liver breaks stuff down...

It's sugar...

No, it's not sugar.

That's insulin, isn't it?

Liver?

I think that's the first wrong answer you've given, Julian.

-The pancreas.

-Sorry about that.

You lose a life. You're down to two lives.

Just reminding us how tight this is for you.

You've got to get past 8 to win and you've two lives left.

Next question - who was the other featured singer on the 2013

Susan Boyle Christmas single, O Come All You Faithful?

I've absolutely no idea.

-I think it was someone like Michael Buble. Someone like that.

-Yeah.

-But I'm not 100% sure.

-I have no idea.

He does love Christmas songs and he is middle-of-the-road, so...

-Or... Shall we go for that?

-Yeah.

I mean, there's Aled Jones and people like that.

-No.

-OK.

Michael Buble.

Michael Buble. Are they a long way off, CJ?

-Oh, just a little bit, yes.

-Why is it such a dramatically wrong answer?

-It's Elvis Presley.

-Elvis Presley!

They did something with an old Elvis tape?

No, he was singing live, Jeremy(!)

-All right.

-I'm proud of not knowing that one. That's all right.

That's fine. Well, it does take another life away from you

and you've only got one life left, and let's be realistic here - you need to get nine,

so you have to get the next eight questions correct in a row.

You're playing for £2,500 between you.

Here's your question - Monument, Bank Foot

and Byker are all stations on which city's underground system?

-Say it.

-Newcastle.

Newcastle is correct.

Two points to you. Next question -

the Ranevskaya family are characters in which 1904 play by Chekhov?

Ranevskaya. Is it Uncle Vanya?

-Could be.

-He's with the family.

I'd say that. I don't honestly know.

-Yeah. Is it Uncle Vanya?

-Uncle Vanya is your answer.

The Ranevskaya family.

You've got one life left, you're on the edge here. You need to get

this answer and the next six after that correct to beat CJ's total.

I'm afraid the answer is The Cherry Orchard.

THEY GROAN

KLAXON

-Well, was it fun to...take on CJ together?

-Yes.

-Yes, it was.

-Good.

-Not as much fun as it was for me.

-Well, yes, all right, stop gloating.

Gentlemen, you lost all your lives and you failed to meet CJ's target,

which was, in fairness to him, a handsome score of eight out of ten.

Although you're probably annoyed you got two wrong.

It means you leave with nothing, I'm afraid. Congratulations, CJ.

You've shown once again why you are an Egghead.

Join us next time, when CJ will be doing his utmost to crush

another five contestants on Revenge Of The Egghead.

Goodbye.