Episode 16 Revenge of the Egghead

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 David, I'm a PhD student, and I'm from Liverpool.

I'm Fiona, I'm a safeguarding officer from Surrey.

I'm Dave, I'm a train driver instructor from Cardiff.

I'm Kelly, I'm an assistant manager, from London.

I'm Neil, and I'm an IT consultant, from Sunderland.

Welcome to you all. And good luck.

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

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

As well as can be expected, thank you, Mr Vine.

So, you are revising what at the moment?

I have decided to give myself a break, and actually

look at something I like, I know about, and enjoy.

I'm doing Bond films,

and I'm concentrating on Bond girls this time.

So, if I give you the name of an actress, like Jane Seymour,

-you can tell me who she played?

-Solitaire, in Live And Let Die.

OK, Britt Ekland? Mary Goodnight, in Man With The Golden Gun.

What about Famke Janssen?

She was Xenia Onatopp, in Goldeneye.

Don't worry about this, it's just CJ showing off.

At this stage, we needn't worry. What do you make of this team?

Interesting. But, as I always say,

mercy is just a word for French people.

-JEREMY LAUGHS

-All right, let's get started.

Contestants, here's how it works.

None of you have met each other before.

You're building 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 sniffs out a wrong answer from you,

he can stop play like this.

BUZZER

And, once he's hit the button, and rung the buzzer,

he then 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

that are lit up on the desk in front of you.

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

But, whoever survives till the end of the game

will have a shot at sharing the prize money. All clear?

Let's begin.

David, first question. How many sides does a parallelogram have?

-Four?

-Four is the right answer, £200 in the pot. Well done, good start.

Fiona, in 2011, who had a UK top 10 single with Rolling In The Deep?

-Adele.

-Adele is right, Fiona. Another £200. You're up to 400.

Dave, what name for a mischievous spirit

comes from the German for "noisy ghost"?

Poltergeist.

Poltergeist is quite right, £200 more. £600 in total.

Going like a train. Over to you now, Kelly.

The band Dr Teeth And The Electric Mayhem

appeared regularly on which TV show?

Tiswas.

-BUZZER

-Tiswas is your answer. CJ's buzzed.

And the train comes off the tracks with The Muppets.

I shouldn't have said that, should I? That always jinxes it.

It is The Muppets. Muppet Show. Not Tiswas.

So, because you got it wrong, Kelly, and CJ's caught you out,

that means you will have to take your place on the hotspot,

and face one of his multiple-choice questions.

And risk losing one of those precious two lives.

Watch out, though, these are particularly tricky questions,

as CJ has written them himself.

It is time to face the Egghead.

Good luck, Kelly.

-Hello, Kelly, how are you?

-I'm well.

-I'm sorry,

I forgot I didn't care! JEREMY LAUGHS

What questions are you looking at, CJ? What have you got?

I think Kelly's going to start off with a nice history question.

Let's go for very, very recent history.

Kelly.

So, all of them are fairly recent members of the EU,

the single economic area. Erm, I'll go with Serbia.

OK, Serbia. CJ?

It's Latvia.

-I'm sorry, Kelly.

-OK.

Please return to the other players.

Very difficult, not Serbia but Latvia.

We have to take a life away from you. £600.

Neil, Yulia Tymoshenko is a former prime minister of which country?

-I'm going to say Russia.

-BUZZER

Russia, but CJ disagrees.

-I'm going to say Ukraine.

-Ukraine is the correct answer.

CJ's got it right, Neil, you got it wrong,

so you also have to go to the hotspot.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

OK, CJ. Show a bit of humanity here.

Have you got a dictionary so I can check what that is, please?

I thought it was hopeless.

We're going to stick with history, Neil.

Prisoners of War, I think, must be the Geneva Convention, possibly.

Banking is a possibility, Berne, Switzerland.

You know what, I think I'll go for Passports.

Passports? OK.

And the correct answer's Copyright.

Neil, I'm sorry. Please return to your fellow players.

We have to take a life away.

So, you're on 600.

You've been on 600 since I said you were doing well.

David, you've got the next question.

Who wrote a series of novels set in the fictional county of Barsetshire?

HE SIGHS

I have to go with Bernard Cornwell.

-BUZZER

-Bernard Cornwell? CJ?

-Anthony Trollope.

-Anthony Trollope is the correct answer.

CJ has called you out, David.

You're going to have to face him on the hotspot.

It's time to take on the Egghead.

-Student, yeah?

-Yeah.

-Studying roughly what?

-Er...

-Actually, don't tell me, because he'll take advantage.

-Just keep it vague.

-Yeah, OK.

David, how are you with sport?

I think I'm all right, yeah.

Normally, that would make me ask something else,

but I am going to ask you a sport question. David.

HE SIGHS

I think maybe 90cm seems a bit short.

I don't know.

I'm inclined towards 100cm, but if it is 105, I'll really kick myself.

-OK. So your answer is?

-100cm.

-That's a metre, isn't it?

-Yeah.

CJ!

The correct answer is...90cm.

90, the shortest one.

OK, well, David, I'm sorry about that.

Please return to your fellow players.

David, we take a life off you.

You've got £600 in the pot. Fiona, here's your question.

In the 1670s, Titus Oates infamously announced

there was a popish plot against which King?

Oh, James II.

-BUZZER

-James II. CJ?

Nice try at bluffing, my dear.

-Charles II.

-CJ's got it right.

-HE LAUGHS

You did say it with total conviction, actually.

I got it half right!

CJ wants to get one of your lives off you, you mustn't let him.

It's time to take on the Egghead.

Fiona, face him down, now.

-Fiona, how about a little bit of science for you?

-Love it.

I'm sure it's not temperature.

Or radioactivity.

I'm going to go for...viscosity.

Viscosity?

He doesn't look happy.

It's temperature.

SHE GASPS

Fiona, please return to your fellow players.

So, you lose a life as well.

Only Dave has two lives yet left.

£600. Dave, your question.

The aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker

was born in which modern-day Asian country?

-The Philippines.

-The Philippines is the wrong answer,

-but you don't know that, obviously.

-No idea.

Indonesia is the correct answer. CJ didn't buzz you there.

-Phew.

-So, you're not called to the hotspot.

Still, you don't make any money from that answer. We're stuck on £600.

Kelly, singer Nicola Roberts found fame as a member of which pop group?

-Girls Aloud.

-Girls Aloud is the right answer. Well done.

At last, £200.

800, well done to you.

Neil, what is the full title of the TV show known by the acronym TOWIE?

T-O-W-I-E?

The Only Way Is Essex.

The Only Way Is Essex is quite right.

Neil, well done. Another £200. We're on 1,000.

David, Uppsala is a major city in which European country?

That's spelt U-P-P-S-A-L-A.

-I'm pretty sure this is Finland.

-BUZZER SOUNDS

Finland. CJ.

I was going to say Sweden but I actually think he's right.

-What is your answer?

-Sweden.

-Your answer is Sweden.

-Well, your answer is correct.

-Oh.

-David, I'm sorry.

He has called you to the Hot Spot where you must fight for your life.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

So David, our PhD student, you have got one life left.

You must get this question right to stay in the contest. Go for it.

We are going to do history again! David.

OK. Now, I know that Seneca wrote this book about Claudius,

the previous emperor. The sort of, I don't know...

In order to gain favour with this next emperor.

I'm just trying to remember who came first, Nero or Caligula,

and I think it was the latter.

OK. I'm going to have to go with Caligula.

Respect if you've got this one right.

You have pulled out some great facts there. CJ.

It's Nero. HE GROANS

You were on a 50-50. That is a stinker of a question, CJ.

-Bad luck.

-Got the right result though, didn't it?

Oh, dear. So, that is another wrong answer, David,

and unfortunately that was your last life.

We say thanks for playing

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

The Egghead has taken his revenge.

So a space opens up among the players.

£1,000, you've put together so far.

Fiona, which group had a UK hit single in 1981

-with Stand And Deliver?

-The wonderful Adam And The Ants.

Adam And The Ants is the right answer. You are on £1,200, players.

David. The tympanic membrane is part of which organ in the human body?

-The ear.

-The ear is quite right.

Another 200. Up to 1,400. Kelly.

Saluton is Esperanto for which English word?

-Cheers.

-BUZZER SOUNDS

-CJ has buzzed.

-I would guess, with salutations, it's hello.

Hello is the right answer, not cheers, Kelly.

You need to go to the Hot Spot and again face the Egghead.

Well, Kelly, good luck. You also are playing for your place in the game.

-CJ.

-Considering how well you did on recent history,

here's one on recent history.

Darius Milhaud.

I think your pronunciation is better than his. That's for sure.

Certainly not someone I'm familiar with.

-I'll go for political philosophy.

-Political philosophy.

If you've got it wrong you are out of the game.

CJ, break this gently, please.

-It's musical composition.

-Very sorry, Kelly,

musical composition it is, not political philosophy.

Another wrong answer

and unfortunately you lose your last life.

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

The Egghead has taken his revenge.

-HE SIGHS

-It is getting serious.

£1,400, you are on. Neil.

Which former prime minister became the first Earl of Stockton in 1984?

-Alec Douglas-Home.

-BUZZER SOUNDS

Alec Douglas-Home. CJ has buzzed.

-Harold Macmillan.

-Harold Macmillan is the right answer.

Should have known that. Stockton's in the north-east.

It's even worse than that, you have to go to the Hot Spot

and take on the Egghead.

-OK. Come on now, Neil.

-OK, Neil.

Here is one that people think they should know.

-Do you travel through it at all, Neil?

-I have, yes.

I went to Barcelona through there.

That was in 2009.

It hadn't been long opened since then. I'm going to go 2008.

CJ, is Neil still with us?

The correct answer is 2008.

Well done, Neil. That makes up for Harold Macmillan. Great stuff.

Please return to your fellow players.

Well, that feels good. You live to fight another day.

You've got one life left, still. £1,400. Fiona, we go to you.

By what name was the French singer born Edith Gassion better-known?

Edith Gassion, I believe, was Edith Piaf.

She was indeed Edith Piaf. Well done. Another £200. £1,600.

Dave. Rockall is the name of a remote granite islet

-in which body of water?

-The...

-..Atlantic Ocean.

-Atlantic Ocean is quite right.

Another £200. £1,800, you are on.

OK. I'm sorry it has come around so quickly, Neil.

It does that when there are fewer than five players.

Phyllida Law is the mother of which Oscar-winning actress?

-Keira Knightley.

-BUZZER SOUNDS

-Keira Knightley. CJ has buzzed.

-Is it Kate Winslet?

-No, it is not.

It's Emma Thompson. Neil, don't worry.

He's not called you to the Hot Spot

but you don't make money for your answer.

You got it wrong, he got it wrong. OK. £1,800. Fiona.

Where Eagles Dare is a 1967 novel by which writer?

-Joseph Heller.

-BUZZER SOUNDS

-CJ has buzzed.

-Frederick Forsyth.

No, it's Alistair McLean. So you're both wrong.

No money from that answer but you're not called to the Hot Spot.

£1,800, we're on. Dave.

Columbia University is mainly located in which US city?

-Washington.

-Washington is your answer. It's wrong. It's New York.

You don't get called to the Hot Spot cos CJ didn't know.

£1,800, we're on. Neil.

Which artist is credited with producing The Velvet Underground's

first album featuring the vocal collaborator, Nico?

-Lou Reed.

-BUZZER SOUNDS

Lou Reed is your answer. CJ.

Maybe I misunderstood the question but I thought Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol is correct. You have to go to the Hot Spot, I'm afraid.

It's time to take on the Egghead.

-I sense a certain weariness, Neil.

-Bring it on.

-One life left.

The greatest compliment I can pay you, Neil,

is that I really want to get you out.

I hate to say it but let's try some more history, Neil.

So, one life left to stay in. Please get this right.

Going on his last history question that he asked,

the answer was musical composition.

So, I'm going to go with musical instrument.

-I think he's reading the same page.

-THEY LAUGH

Daring CJ, there.

Has he got it right?

Is he seeing into the heart of your question writing process here, CJ?

It's a musical instrument. HE CHUCKLES

You're very smart. He won't like that at all. Well done.

Please return to your fellow players.

Oh! Have we divined your methodology, CJ?

You just open the book at one page and write everything down?

You saved your life there, Neil. You're still in the game. Well done.

£1,800. OK, Fiona.

In the poem The Owl And The Pussycat,

the two main characters eat slices of which fruit?

-Plum.

-BUZZER SOUNDS

-CJ has buzzed.

-Quince.

-Quince it is.

Fiona, you have to go to the Hot Spot.

Right on the edge of the final, we want you to stay in.

It is time to face the Egghead.

Well, you almost bluffed him on James II

but this is a hard one to bluff.

-Good luck staying in, Fiona.

-Thank you.

I'm thinking he's got a very upper-class name and I'd imagine

he'd have a very well educated profession,

which would lead me towards doctor or vicar.

Doctor is a bit obvious because a lot of well known novelists

are doctors so I'm going to hope for divine inspiration and go for vicar.

-If you've got this wrong, you're out of the game, Fiona.

-It's doctor.

Fiona, another wrong answer, unfortunately.

That was your last life.

I'm really sorry but you're out of the game and out of the money.

The Egghead has taken his revenge.

Gentlemen, just the two of you now. Not much time before the klaxon.

£1,800. Can you get it to 2,000? Dave.

In the USA, the Shenandoah River is a tributary of which the river?

The Colorado.

The Colorado is the wrong answer but CJ obviously doesn't know that.

It is the Potomac.

So, no money but obviously not called to the Hot Spot. £1,800.

Neil, in which city is the football team Heart of Midlothian based?

-Edinburgh.

-Edinburgh is the right answer. Well done.

You go to 2,000. Doing well.

We have no more time for questions there because the bell has gone.

That was the last question.

Two of you have survived to play in the final.

You built up a prize pot of £2,000 and you've now got the chance

to take that money home. There is just one problem.

You have got to beat the Egghead.

So, there is £2,000 up for grabs and two 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.

And I'm going to ask CJ ten General Knowledge questions.

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

We're going to play and CJ will go first. Here we go.

Your first question, CJ.

What is the common name of the whale species monodon monoceros?

-Narwhal.

-Narwhal is correct. One out of one.

The Berber people are an ethnic group

indigenous to which continent? Berber is B-E-R-B-E-R.

-Africa.

-Africa is correct. Two out of two.

Which superhero first appeared in the 1938

first issue of Action Comics?

-Superman.

-Superman is quite right. Three out of three.

Operation Barbarossa was the codename for Germany's invasion

of which country during World War II?

-Russia.

-Russia is correct.

Could have accepted Soviet Union as well.

You've got four out of four. You're playing well.

Nynorsk and Bokmal are the two official written forms

-of which language?

-Spelling, please?

Nynorsk is N-Y-N-O-R-S-K.

Bokmal is B-O-K-M-A-L.

And the A has a very small circle on top of it.

Presumably Scandinavian. If it is Scandinavian I had no idea

there were more than one form of any of them. Could be Danish.

I don't think it's Finnish or Swedish.

Erm...

-Norwegian.

-How do you do that? Norwegian is the right answer.

Five out of five. Next question.

In France, what type of worker is known as a sapeur-pompier?

Oh.

Presumably, on the language - I don't know it - but fireman.

Fireman is quite right. Six out of six.

In 2013, Paul McGuinness stepped down after managing

which rock group for over 30 years?

-Blind guess at the Rolling Stones?

-Not the Rolling Stones. No.

The answer is U2. You got one wrong.

-Sorry.

-Six out of seven.

In Greek mythology, which daughter of Zeus was queen of the underworld?

Is it her all is it somebody else? This is one of these annoying things.

An answer popped into my head straightaway but I can't place it.

But I can't think of anybody else so I will try Andromeda.

-No, Persephone.

-Oh, yes it is.

-Six out of eight.

Taken your foot off the pedal, haven't you?

Which member of the Royal family reached the South Pole

-on a charity expedition just before Christmas 2013?

-Prince Harry.

Prince Harry is quite right. Seven out of nine. Last question.

In which country was the poet TS Eliot born?

He was American but was he born there? I have to assume he was.

-America.

-USA is the right answer.

Well done, CJ. You got eight out of ten. You just slipped a little bit.

I should have got... Should have got Persephone.

Do you think eight out of ten is enough to win the game?

-It's a good target. We'll see.

-So, Dave and Neil. Your moment.

You've got your target and you can 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 have lost all your lives,

you will win the £2,000.

Shall we play? Here is your first question.

Rotten Row is a feature of which London park?

-Hyde Park?

-Hyde Park. I think it is.

Hyde Park. I can't think of anything else.

-Going for Hyde Park.

-Hyde Park is the right answer.

One point to you. Try to overhaul CJ's eight. Next question.

The Solomon Sea is usually considered a part of which ocean?

-Solomon sea. Sounds Pacific to me.

-Pacific, I would have thought.

-It's not going to be Atlantic.

-Pacific.

Pacific Ocean is correct.

Two out of two. Well done.

Which MP was the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats

from 2001 to 2007?

-Lembit?

-Opik?

-Opik.

-Yeah? Go for that.

-Any other answer?

-No. You go for it.

-OK. Lembit Opik.

-Lembit Opik is the right answer. Well done.

Three out of three. You're playing well. Starting to worry, isn't he?

You are trying to get to eight. Trying to get one beyond eight.

You've got three lives. £2,000 in the pot.

Introduction and Royal March Of The Lion is the first movement

in which work by the composer Camille Saint-Saens?

It's a really famous one.

Not a clue. Don't have a clue.

It's a really famous, obvious one.

I can't think. I can't think of it.

Any clues you can give me?

If it was given the other way around and was whose is this piece of work?

I would know. Obviously, that's Saint-Saens.

-Was it military? A March?

-No, no. No, no. I don't think so.

Opera?

We may as well say an answer. Can you think of anything?

HE GROANS

No. No idea. No. Can't even hazard a guess.

-Do you know this?

-Carnival Of The Animals.

-That's it.

-Carnival Of The Animals it is.

Your first wrong answer. Playing well, though.

But you lose a life. You are down to two.

You've got to beat eight and there is £2,000 at stake.

Which comedian of the 1950s and 1960s was born

Leonard Alfred Schneider in 1925?

Leonard Alfred Schneider?

-Len someone?

-Leonard. Alfie someone?

-Leonard Alfred Schneider.

-Alfie Bass.

-Alfie Bass.

-That is all I can...

-I can't think of anything else.

-No.

-Alfie Bass.

-Lenny Bruce.

-Lenny Bruce.

-I was thinking you were going to toy with the Len.

You were saying Len. I thought you were going to go Lenny.

English, British comedians. You know.

Lenny Bruce so you've got it wrong and I have to take a life away.

You are down to one life now, gentlemen.

If you get another answer wrong, the contest is over.

£2,000 you are playing for. You have to beat CJ. He got eight.

You are on three.

Who was the director of the National Theatre from 1973 to 1988?

Peter. Peter somebody.

There is a theatre named after him.

Not John Gielgud, is it? 1970s.

I've just got Peter coming into my head. Peter somebody.

I cannot think.

Peter Shaffer? No.

I'm sure it's Peter somebody. I cannot think. No.

-Got me stumped.

-Fire away.

-OK, guys. I need an answer, I'm afraid.

-Peter Shaffer.

-Oh!

-Peter Shaffer is your answer.

You've got one life left. If this is wrong,

you lose the life and the contest is over.

You say it's Peter.

-You are sure it's Peter somebody, aren't you?

-I am.

The answer is Peter Hall.

-Peter Hall.

-HE GROANS

You lose your last life, gentlemen, I'm sorry.

-You could tell even you were in pain for them.

-I knew that one.

Unfortunately contestants, you have lost all your lives and failed

to beat CJ's target so that does mean you leave here with nothing.

-Thanks for playing. I hope you've enjoyed it.

-Yeah.

-Good day out, thanks.

-Congratulations, CJ.

You have 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.