Episode 18 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 Alan, I'm a commercial manager from Richmond in North Yorkshire.

Hello, I'm Marilyn.

I'm a retired book keeper and I live in Bournemouth.

I'm Stefan, I'm a business management student,

and I'm from Weston-super-Mare.

I'm Khalid, I'm an accountant from Edmonton in London.

I'm John, I'm an IT consultant from Wokingham in Berkshire.

Great to see you all. Welcome. Good luck in the game.

In order to win any money today, you will need to outsmart CJ.

How are you feeling, CJ?

This will be fast and they will be furious.

There we are, he throws down the gauntlet straightaway.

Don't be intimidated. Just ignore him.

Now, none of you know each other, but you'll be building up

a prize fund together by individually answering

general knowledge questions.

Each correct answer will add £200 to your pot, but be very careful,

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

BUZZER

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 that wrong, you lose a life.

Your lives are lit up on the desk in front of you

and, if you lose both of your lives, you are going to be out of the game.

Whoever then survives to the end of the game will have

a shot at sharing the prize money.

So, let us begin, shall we?

Alan, we start with you.

Fuerteventura is a part of which island group?

The...Canaries.

Quite right, well done, £200.

Marilyn, Charles Darwin was born on exactly the same day

as which US president?

-Abraham Lincoln.

-Ooh, ooh!

What's that noise for?

Because it's right, isn't it? February 12th, 1809.

Well done, that's another £200. £400!

Stefan, which Mr Men character is blue and covered in bandages?

-Mr Bump.

-That's the right answer. £600.

Khalid, Titan is the largest moon of which planet in our solar system?

Saturn.

BUZZER

-CJ?

-Jupiter.

I'm pleased to tell you, Khalid, that you are correct.

CJ's wrong.

So, Khalid, you don't just get your £200, but an extra £100.

You're up to £900 now, cos he got it wrong and you got it right,

well done. John, Richie McCaw and Sean Fitzpatrick have captained

which country in International Rugby Union?

Australia.

It's wrong, but CJ obviously doesn't know that.

New Zealand should have been the answer.

He can't call you out to the Hot Spot, cos he didn't know the answer.

But you don't add the money to the pot.

Alan, the trade unionist Lech Walesa

was president of which country in the 1990s?

-Poland.

-Poland is the right answer. You go to £1,100.

Marilyn, during World War II,

people known as Bevin Boys worked in which industry?

-Mining.

-Mining is correct, £200 added - £1,300.

Stefan, who is the director of the 2013 film 12 Years A Slave?

James Cameron.

BUZZER

-CJ?

-About time - Steve McQueen.

Stefan, CJ has caught you out,

which means you will have to take your position on the Hot Spot

and face one of his multiple choice questions,

and risk losing one of those precious lives.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

He has written the questions himself.

Watch out for the options, cos they're the things he's been

spending all night working on, making them beastly.

I'm going to play a hunch here and ask Stefan about sport.

I don't think it's 2.6m, cos I'm just below 2.2m

and that would be ginormous. Same with 2.2.

So, I'm going for one of the two smaller ones.

I'm going to say, cos you do get quite short athletes, 1.6m.

1.6m, CJ, is he right or has he lost a life?

Right answer's 2.6m.

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

I followed your logic completely there, but you're wrong

and so you lose a life.

You're on £1,300.

Khalid, which knight from Arthurian legend

was the protagonist of a famous 14th-century poem

in which he encounters a mysterious green knight?

Sir Lancelot.

BUZZER

-Gawain.

-Gawain is the answer.

-What's the famous book about it?

-Gawain And The Green Knight.

Khalid, he's got it right, you've got it wrong, so no money on that

question and you have to go to the Hot Spot and take on the Egghead.

CJ, what does that lead you towards, question-wise?

So, Khalid, we have... British geography for you.

I have to say, when South Uist came up, that was the one I was drawn to.

So, I'm going to go with my gut feeling and say South Uist.

CJ?

The correct answer...

is Eigg.

Please return to your fellow players.

I'm afraid I have to take one of your lives away.

You're a bit stuck on £1,300. John, we need you here.

Chatham, the site of the famous Royal Navy dockyard,

is in which county?

-It's Kent.

-Kent is the right answer. £1,500 we're on.

Alan, in which book by JM Barrie does the character Peter Pan

appear for the first time?

Peter Pan.

Peter Pan is your answer. It is The Little White Bird.

Oh, that's tough.

You're off the hook on that one.

You don't make any money, but you don't get called to the Hot Spot.

Marilyn, in musical notation,

what word beginning with P means "at the greatest possible speed"?

Pizzicato...

BUZZER

I know it's not that. That's plucking, isn't it?

Before you'd even finished the sentence, he was on you.

This is little more than a blind guess, but pronto?

No, not pronto - prestissimo.

OK, if you say so.

-£1,500. But you don't get called to the Hot Spot.

-Phew!

Stefan, which British actor plays the Master of Lake-town,

in the 2013 film The Hobbit The Desolation Of Smaug?

I can see him, but I can't think of his name.

I'm going to have to random guess...at James Smith.

BUZZER

I've no idea either. I will just blind guess at Michael Sheen.

No, it's Stephen Fry. CJ, you got it wrong as well,

so you're not called to the Hot Spot so you live to fight another day.

You're on £1,500.

Khalid, which US state is known as the Bluegrass State?

North Carolina.

BUZZER

-CJ's buzzed.

-Tennessee?

-No, not Tennessee - Kentucky is the answer.

-Oh!

CJ got it wrong and you got it wrong - you've survived,

you've lived to fight another day.

£1,500 you're on. A bit stuck on this money.

John, who was elected Taoiseach or Ireland in March, 2011?

Caroline Smith.

BUZZER

I only had to listen to the first letter there. Enda Kenny.

Enda Kenny is the right answer, John.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

CJ's got his horrible questions, the horrible options.

Let's have a bit of high culture, shall we, John?

1986, that would put them back...27 years of age.

Which one of those is 27?

I'd go Avril Lavigne on this.

The answer's Lady Gaga.

Please return to your fellow players.

John, I have to take a life away from you.

Alan, in which country is the city of Mandalay?

Portugal.

BUZZER

-CJ?

-Do you know, I can't remember!

But it's certainly not Portugal.

-Burma.

-Oh!

Alan, you got it wrong, CJ got it wrong as well.

Don't know what's happening. He's misfiring,

you're keeping your lives. No extra money, though.

Marilyn, the remains of which legendary actor and director

were stolen and held to ransom from March to May, 1978?

Frank Sinatra.

BUZZER

-CJ.

-I've never heard of this, but just going on the date,

because he died a couple of months earlier, I'll try Charlie Chaplin.

Yeah, you've got it right, it is Charlie Chaplin.

It's time to take on the Egghead.

CJ, what's your question?

I've never heard of her in ice skating. I'm not really into opera.

Or mountain climbing. But we'll say fashion design.

-The answer's fashion design.

-Yes!

-Well done, Marilyn. Spirited play.

Please return to your fellow players.

Let's see where we are. £1,500. You're all still in it.

Two of you only have got both lives left.

Stefan, how many US states have only four letters in their name?

Six.

BUZZER

-CJ.

-No. I only know of one.

-The states are Utah, Ohio and Iowa.

-Oh, yes.

-There are three.

-Of course!

Three, CJ!

Stefan, you're lucky as well, you're not going to the Hot Spot.

But you make no money with that answer. £1,500 you're on.

Khalid, by what name is the Parisian cemetery

Cimetiere de l'Est better known?

East Cemetery.

BUZZER

-I hope it's Pere Lachaise.

-Pere Lachaise is the correct answer.

That's where Jim Morrison of The Doors, Oscar Wilde are buried.

So, Khalid, you got that wrong and CJ got it right.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

Now I'm a little bit worried for you, Khalid, because you have

only got the one life left and you're the man on the Hot Spot.

CJ, go gently here.

I'll go gently and then Khalid can go gently into that dark night.

I don't think it's the Royal Society.

Would GCHQ have an observatory?

Don't think it's the Planetarium.

I'm going to go with the University of Manchester.

-It's the University of Manchester.

-Brilliant.

You can return to your fellow players.

No-one knocked out yet. £1,500.

We'll get the prize money up a bit if we can before the klaxon goes.

John, which female US folk singer

founded the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence

in Carmel, California, in the mid '60s?

Janis Joplin.

Janis Joplin is the wrong answer. It's Joan Baez.

You didn't know that.

It was going to be a 50/50, I didn't know which one.

Don't worry, you're not going to the Hot Spot,

but you're still not making the money.

OK, Alan, Rob Newman, David Baddiel, Steve Punt

and Hugh Dennis were all members of which comedy team on radio and TV?

The Now Show.

BUZZER

The Mary Whitehouse Experience.

The Mary Whitehouse Experience is the right answer.

So, you now have to take on the Egghead.

Let's see if CJ can leave the way clear.

You look like a sporty kind of chap, Alan.

'82 is between Olympics.

I think... Was that the year of Botham's Ashes?

Ian Botham.

The correct answer's Daley Thompson.

Alan, please return to your fellow players.

Alan, we have to take a life away.

£1,500 you've got as a prize fund, albeit to share,

if you win, between five of you.

Marilyn, with two lives still, which footballer broke his leg

while playing for Blackburn in the 1960 FA Cup Final?

Stanley Matthews.

BUZZER

-CJ has buzzed.

-Didn't play for Blackburn.

But that's as far as I can go. Alan Ball.

No, not Alan Ball, Dave Whelan is the answer.

CJ's let you off the hook there. You don't have to go to the Hot Spot.

£1,500 you're on.

Stefan, which actress gave birth to a baby named Bear in December, 2013?

Kim Kardashian.

BUZZER

It's not her cos I know what her baby's name is

but I've no idea about this one. Keira Knightley.

No, it was Kate Winslet. Off the hook, Stefan.

You're not going to the Hot Spot. You're safe in position.

All five them, CJ, what is happening here?

-You're going to be confronted by the whole lot of them.

-Toying with them.

OK, that's interesting, we haven't heard that before.

Khalid, who composed incidental music for Henrik Ibsen's play

Peer Gynt in 1876?

Johann Sebastian Bach.

BUZZER

-Bach?

-Bit busy being dead.

Benjamin Britten?

-No, Edvard Grieg.

-Dear Lord, what am I doing?

CJ's got it wrong as well. You're not going to the Hot Spot.

Still no extra money, still £1,500.

John, what word from the Latin meaning "decree of the people"

is used to mean a direct vote by the electorate of a state?

Election.

BUZZER

-Referendum.

-No, not referendum, CJ.

-Plebiscite.

-I'm not doing very well here at all, am I?

Your socks are brighter than you are today.

So, John, off the hook there. Alan, what is the national fruit of India?

Mango.

BUZZER

Mangos aren't grown in India. I've no idea, though!

Absolutely no idea. Lychee.

Mango is the right answer.

-Oh, I don't care any more.

-CJ is wrong.

You don't just get your £200, put in an extra £100. You're on £1,800.

Cos you got it right and he got it wrong.

OK, Marilyn, what does the pencil grade HB stand for?

Hard blade, no.

BUZZER

Very close. It's hard black.

Hard black is the correct answer. He was right and you were wrong.

It is time to face the Egghead.

You came up before and survived. Let's see what happens now.

CJ is clearly riled.

That's one of my favourite paintings,

cos he made a series of those, didn't he?

That's why I said there were eight of them.

It's the Musee de l'Orangerie.

CJ, please tell us it's that and you could be even more annoyed.

The correct answer is...

-Musee de l'Orangerie.

-Oh, well done to you.

You're leading a charmed life here. Return to your fellow players.

Marilyn, you did well there, you've kept both your lives.

Stefan, you're on one life. Here's your question.

Blue litmus paper turns what colour when in contact with an acid?

With an acid... Alkalines are purple so I'm going to say...red.

Red is the right answer. You've gone to £2,000.

Khalid, who was the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party

in Northern Ireland from 1971 to 2008?

Reverend Ian Paisley.

Ian Paisley is correct.

Another £200.

The klaxon could go at any moment.

John, what is the title of Godber's 1984 comedy play

about a pub rugby team?

-Up 'n' Under.

-Up 'n' Under is the right answer, John.

Brilliant, another 200.

2,400. Now we go to you, Alan.

KLAXON SOUNDS

Ah, the he klaxon has sounded.

Right, all five of you have survived to play in the final round.

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

You now have a chance to take that money home. There is one problem.

I think we'd still describe it as a problem, the form he's in.

You have got to beat the Egghead.

So, we have £2,400 up for grabs and five of you left.

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

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

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

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

-Are you ready, CJ?

-This has been, by far, my worst show.

Which will make it all the more enjoyable when I win.

OK, I'm going to ask CJ his ten questions. Here we go.

"Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man,

"no time to talk"

are the opening lines to which song?

HE MUMBLES

HE HUMS

Stayin' Alive.

Thank goodness for that!

Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees. You got a question right.

Joao Havelange, the former president of FIFA,

represented which country at the 1936 and 1952 Olympic games?

I'll just blind guess - Argentina.

Close but no cigar - Brazil.

He swam in '36 and played water polo in '52.

You got one out of two.

Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury between 1162 and 1170?

-Thomas Becket.

-Thomas Becket or Thomas a Becket, I can accept that.

That's two out of three.

Who played the title role in the TV sitcom Citizen Smith?

Sorry, I can't remember his name.

-Robert Lindsay.

-Couldn't remember it.

-Two out of four.

People who've attended which school are known as Old Wykehamists?

-Winchester.

-Winchester is right. Three out of five.

The 1966 film Incubus, starring William Shatner,

is filmed entirely in what language?

-Esperanto.

-Correct, four out of six.

CL is the symbol for which chemical element?

Chlorine.

Chlorine is correct. Five out of seven.

Which fictional character comes from the suburb of Melbourne

known as Moonee Ponds?

I think I went to see her at the London Palladium a few weeks ago.

Think it's Dame Edna Everage.

It is, you're right. Got six out of eight. Coming back here.

The Prince And The Pauper is a book by which author?

Mark Twain.

Correct, seven out of nine. And your last question, CJ -

which film star was born on January 30th, 1974,

in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire?

Oh, um...

Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Christian Bale is the answer, you got that wrong,

so you have seven out of ten, CJ.

Well, well, well.

Alan, Marilyn, Stefan, Khalid and John,

you've got your target now

and you can work together as a team to beat it.

You have six lives there on the front of the desk.

Give me an incorrect answer and you will lose a life.

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

you win the £2,400.

-Shall we go for it?

-Yes.

-Good luck.

In boxing, what is the next heaviest weight category after cruiserweight?

It's either light heavyweight or heavyweight.

THEY WHISPER

-It's one of the heavy ones.

-It's light heavyweight or heavyweight.

-Heavyweight's the top.

-Then light heavyweight is beneath it, isn't it?

It was above, the question was above.

Happy with that, yeah? We're going to go with light heavyweight.

The next heaviest weight category after cruiserweight is heavyweight.

It's not light heavyweight.

You lose a life, you're down to five.

Which jazz musician famously hosted the radio comedy show

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue for many years?

-Humphrey Lyttelton.

-Sure?

-Humphrey Lyttelton, yeah.

-It was Humphrey Lyttelton.

-Humphrey Lyttelton.

Humphrey Lyttelton is the right answer, well done.

No doubt about that. Your first point.

Who jointly received a Nobel Prize alongside Francis Crick

and James Watson in 1962 for his work in the field of DNA?

I was reading this the other day and I can't remember the guy's name.

I have absolutely no idea.

Try Henry Chard.

Henry Chard?

Going to try Henry Chard.

Maurice Wilkins.

Have to take a life away from you. You're down to four lives.

Your target is seven to beat and you have got one right so far.

The Camargue is a marshy delta region of which country?

-It's Spain, isn't it?

-France.

-Is it? Spain?

-The Camargue?

-No, it's... Is it France?

-My instinct was Spain.

-I thought France.

-How positive are you about France?

-It sounds more French than Spanish.

-Shall we go for France?

-OK.

-But don't kill us if we're wrong and it was Spain.

ALL CHATTING

-France.

-CJ, are they right?

It's France.

-Well done, Alan.

-My apologies.

No, you did well to allow yourself to be overruled,

I know how hard that is.

Playing for £2,400. You've got four lives left.

You've now got two correct answers.

Vanessa Redgrave won an Oscar for her role in which film in the '70s?

-What one was...Oliver Reed...?

-Women In Love?

-That was Glenda Jackson.

-Yeah, but was she in it as well?

That's what I'm thinking. There were two girls and two men.

-I'll defer to your judgment.

-Don't do that!

-We've got nothing else.

-So, we're saying...Women In Love?

Yeah, go on, then.

Women In Love, Jeremy.

Women In Love...

Julia is the answer. 1978.

You lose another life.

Who was chosen as the Republic of Ireland football team's

manager in late 2013?

-That was Martin O'Neill.

-Yeah.

-Martin O'Neill.

Martin O'Neill.

Martin O'Neill is correct. Three points.

The fictional character Nathan Zuckerman was created by which

American writer?

-Oh, no...

-Tom Clancy?

-That doesn't sound like one of his books.

Nathan Zuckerman.

Who have we got?

Tom Clancy or Arthur Miller.

Arthur Miller, I was thinking, but...

-I don't know.

-Arthur Miller.

-OK, then. We'll try Arthur Miller.

Philip Roth.

Not Arthur Miller.

You lose a life. Two lives to go.

You could still do it. You're on three points. He got seven.

The Haber-Bosch process is used in industry to produce which gas?

Is that ammonia?

What popped into my mind was neon.

-No...I think it's...

-Shall we go for ammonia?

Yeah. Try ammonia.

Ammonia is the right answer.

So, you're on four points. Look at him, really worried.

He's impressed by that answer. You got two lives left.

Which British designer and executive,

famous for his work with the Apple company,

was knighted in 2012 for his services to design and enterprise?

-Sir Jonathan

-Ive. Yeah?

-Yeah.

-Sir Jonathan

-Ive? Yeah.

Sir Jonathan Ive.

Jonathan Ive is the correct answer.

Famous for iPod, iPad, everything else.

Jonathan Ive takes you to five points, with two lives left.

£2,400 you're playing for.

Which woman became the MP for Hackney North

and Stoke Newington in 1987?

-I think it's Diane Abbot.

-Yeah.

-Well go for that. Diane Abbot.

Diane Abbot is the right answer.

Six points.

Just got to get two more to win the money.

Which British writer won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature?

What sort of books were about in 1983?

Frank Herbert, I'm thinking of.

I've just got William Golding in my mind, Lord Of The Flies...

You said William Golding?

The Lord Of The Flies.

-You're not going to get the Nobel Prize for that.

-No.

-Shall we go with your answer?

-Yeah.

-Go on, yeah.

-What was it?

-Frank Herbert.

Frank Herbert.

Your answer is Frank Herbert.

-You know the answer.

-Think it's William Golding.

-Is it William Golding?

-It was William Golding.

I hope that's not curtains for you. You've got to lose another life.

You've got one life left.

Which actor became a part owner

of the South Sydney Rabbitohs Rugby League club in 2006?

It's...er...Russell Crowe, I think.

Can't be any other Australian actors...

-There's Mel Gibson and people like that.

-Could be anyone.

-Shall we go with it?

-Russell Crowe?

-Yeah.

-Russell Crowe.

So, the actor who became part owner of the South Sydney Rabbitohs

Rugby League club was Russell Crowe.

You're now...

You're level with the Egghead.

We could have done it with William Golding.

If you get this one right, you beat CJ and you take the money.

It all comes down to this one question. And here it is.

The city of Nagasaki is located on which Japanese island?

THEY WHISPER

I can't think of a Japanese island.

-Well, there's just two main ones.

-What's the other one?

-Honshu...

-My daughter knows the answer.

-Honshu?

-Yeah.

-Shall we just go for that?

-Yeah.

-Altogether.

-Yeah, altogether.

ALL: Honshu.

Honshu, OK.

Well, you gave it there in unison.

The answer is Kyushu.

I'm exhausted and I'm just sitting here.

My goodness, you ran him so close there.

Listen, I hope you've enjoyed playing. It's been an amazing game.

-Oooh!

-You put him through the wringer as well. My goodness.

All right, so I have to say you have lost, contestants.

You therefore leave here with nothing.

-Congratulations, CJ, I say through gritted teeth.

-It's fine.

And you'll pretend it was all easy now,

but 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.