Episode 23 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 Neil and I'm a former detective chief inspector from Liverpool.

I'm Jayne, I'm a student welfare officer and I'm from Chester.

I'm Maurice, I'm a househusband from Peckham.

I'm Sarah, I'm a retired teacher and I'm from Newcastle upon Tyne.

I'm Steve, I'm a civil servant from Gwent.

Welcome. And we say good luck to you all beating this man over here.

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

you have to outsmart CJ de Mooi.

CJ, how are you feeling?

I'm calm and collected.

There's an almost Zenlike quality to my fury today.

Well, don't take it all out on them -

you can take some out on me as well.

What have you been revising at the moment?

Possibly being a bit lazy,

but going back to one of my favourite subjects of US presidents,

one of the interesting aspects

is all the non-human inhabitants of the White House.

You have the most famous example of Checkers the dog, with Nixon.

So I've been looking at other presidential dogs.

So, Obama has a dog?

Obama has two dogs, Bo, who's the one that everyone knows about,

and the new one is Sunny.

And they're both Portuguese Water Dogs.

OK. Bill Clinton?

The dog he had was Buddy, he was a Labrador.

And if we go back to the '70s and Jimmy Carter?

He had an Afghan Hound, for some reason named Lewis Brown.

-There we are. Did you know any of that?

-SCOFFS:

-Of course they didn't!

It probably won't be needed in this contest.

If there's a question on presidents' dogs today, I'll be very surprised.

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

-This team look as green as Neil's shirt.

-OK.

He's thrown down the gauntlet. Let's 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

He hits his big red button over there and the buzzer goes off.

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

a particularly difficult question that he's written himself.

You get it wrong and you will lose one of the two lives

on the desk in front of you.

If you lose them both you are out of the game.

But whoever survives to the end of the game

will have a shot at sharing the prize money.

So, shall we begin?

Neil, you have the first question.

This is a dog, actually.

What breed of dog is cartoon character Scooby-Doo?

He's a Great Dane.

Well done, Great Dane it is. £200 in the pot, good start.

Jayne, your question.

Honkers is an old-fashioned term for which part of the world?

India?

India is the wrong answer, but funnily enough,

CJ hasn't buzzed you.

-I don't know this.

-Drawing a blank. Honkers?

-Hong Kong?

-Oh, really? OK.

-Hong Kong is the answer.

Now, because CJ didn't buzz even though you got it wrong,

you're not called to the Hot Spot.

You don't, however, make any money from that answer.

So, you're still on £200.

Maurice, which actor stars in the films This Is 40, Anchorman

and Role Models?

Will Ferrell.

-BUZZER

-Will Ferrell. CJ's buzzed.

Don't know this - Seth Rogen?

-No, Paul Rudd is the answer.

-Oh, yes.

He got it wrong as well, so you made no money with that,

but you're not called to the Hot Spot.

On £200, Sarah.

Fans of which London football club nicknamed the Lions

are famous for singing, "No-one likes us, we don't care"?

Tottenham.

-BUZZER

-Tottenham.

-This is your song, CJ, isn't it?

-HE CHUCKLES

I don't know this, but I know Chelsea have a lion on their badge,

so I'll guess at Chelsea.

No, it's Millwall. He didn't catch you out cos he didn't know.

You don't go to the Hot Spot.

We're still on £200, you need to raise this money somehow.

Steve, which actor caused controversy

with his portrayal of a fictional Archbishop of Canterbury

for a Comic Relief sketch in 2013?

Ricky Gervais.

-BUZZER

-Ricky Gervais, he says.

-Was that Rowan Atkinson?

-That was Rowan Atkinson, CJ.

You have finally got one right. He's caught you out, Steve.

You got the answer wrong, he got it right,

so he's able to call you to the Hot Spot

and ask you one of his own specially written questions.

They're multiple choice, they're a bit dastardly.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

Well, not for want of trying,

CJ has finally got one of you to the Hot Spot.

If you get this wrong, Steve, you lose one of your lives.

-CJ?

-OK, then. Let's ask Steve something about literature. Steve...

Pretty sure - I say that - that it's not Dostoyevsky,

but I've got a feeling it might be Leo Tolstoy.

So, that's my answer.

Tolstoy, he's saying. CJ?

It's Dostoyevsky.

Dostoyevsky is the answer. Tolstoy was wrong.

Please return to your fellow players.

You lose a life.

You're still on £200, players.

We need to try to get this total up.

Neil, it's your question, now.

Which country has borders with Yemen, Oman, Kuwait,

Qatar, Iraq, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates?

-Saudi Arabia.

-Saudi Arabia is quite right.

Another £200.

That's £400. All the money so far has been earned by Neil.

Jayne, who married Miriam Gonzalez Durantez in 2000?

Rafa Nadal.

-BUZZER

-Rafa Nadal married her.

Nick Clegg.

Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, is the answer, Jayne, I'm sorry.

CJ's going to ask you one of his own special questions on the Hot Spot.

It is time to face the Egghead.

You've got two lives, Jayne.

Got to try and hang on to them, here. We saw what happened to Steve.

How about another bit of literature for you, Jayne?

-I read.

-I'll be surprised if you read this sort of stuff.

Um...

I'll plump for Ron Burgundy.

Ron Burgundy.

Correct answer is Ron Burgundy.

Ron Burgundy, well done, Jayne.

You've hung on to your lives.

Please return to your fellow players.

OK, so £400 still. All the money earned by Neil.

Maurice, "I'm in charge" was an early catch phrase

of which entertainer, born in 1928?

("I'm in charge, I'm in charge.")

Bob Monkhouse?

-BUZZER

-Bob Monkhouse - CJ's buzzed.

1928 sounds like Bruce Forsyth.

Bruce Forsyth is the right answer.

"I'm in charge," he said. You got it wrong.

CJ got it right - you're going to the Hot Spot as well.

It is time to face the Egghead.

OK, Maurice, good luck here.

I'll do my best.

-Don't let him intimidate you.

-No!

-Maurice...

I don't think it's Mel Gibson.

I think it's too early for Brad Pitt.

I'm looking at George Clooney or Johnny Depp.

Er...they've both been married before.

I will go for...because I know he was married

around the time he got famous in ER,

so I'll go for George Clooney.

It's Johnny Depp.

Johnny Depp!

The logic was great but the answer was wrong.

Johnny Depp it was. Please return to your fellow players.

Another life goes.

The money's a bit more concerning -

you're just not adding to that total of £400.

Sarah, that's down to you.

Swings Both Ways was a UK number one album for which singer in 2013?

Robbie Williams.

Robbie Williams is the correct answer. Well done, another £200.

600, we're on.

Steve, what is the smallest country on the African mainland?

CJ CHUCKLES

Djibouti.

-BUZZER

-Say again.

-Djibouti.

Djibouti, well, that's a very good answer, actually. Is he right?

It's a good answer, but it's still The Gambia.

The Gambia is the answer. You have to go to the Hot Spot, Steve.

It is time to face the Egghead.

One life left, Steve, we don't want to lose you.

But if you get this wrong you'll be gone.

Steve, nice and simple.

OK, he's...

..probably...

45, so I'll say 1968...

Steve has said '68.

If he's wrong, he leaves us.

The correct answer is nineteen...

sixty...

..six.

Well, that's another wrong answer, Steve,

and unfortunately that was your last life, so we say thanks for playing.

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

The Egghead has taken his revenge.

Thanks very much.

Very painful to lose a player.

We're on £600. The money's not exactly piling up.

Neil, back with you.

Interview With The Vampire is a book by which author?

Bram Stoker, but it's wrong.

BUZZER

It doesn't suggest that much confidence in the answer,

when you say, "But it's wrong"!

OK, Bram Stoker, CJ?

-Anne Rice.

-He's got it right.

It's Anne Rice. Going to go on the Hot Spot and take on the Egghead.

-So, retired policeman.

-Yeah.

If CJ causes any trouble, get the cuffs out.

Wouldn't be the first time.

-English history for you, Neil.

-OK.

-Neil...

I don't think it's Alfred.

But something in the back of my mind is saying it's Ethelred.

Is he right?

It's Athelstan.

Athelstan.

Please return to your fellow players.

Neil, sorry, you lose a life.

Still on £600.

Jayne, by what name is the controversial

process of hydraulic fracturing better known?

Fracking.

Fracking is the right answer, another £200.

Well done. 800.

Maurice, see if you can get to 1,000.

Prior to the London 2012 Summer Olympics, who was announced

as the official captain of the Great Britain men's football team?

Was it Craig Bellamy?

-BUZZER

-Craig Bellamy.

CJ.

Was it Frank Lampard?

No, it wasn't.

Ryan Giggs is the answer.

CJ got it wrong, and you got it wrong,

so no money from that question,

but you're not called to the Hot Spot. 800.

Sarah, the 1983 song Is There Something I Should Know?

was the first UK number one single by which band?

The Commodores?

-BUZZER

-The Commodores. CJ?

-Duran Duran.

-Duran Duran, it is.

You're going to go on the Hot Spot and take on the Egghead.

Face him down, Sarah.

Hang on to your lives.

I think I'm going to plump for...

sport. Sarah...

I haven't heard of him as a cricketer.

I'm going to go for polo, CJ.

Let's see if you're right, Sarah.

It's cricket.

-Oh!

-You have got it wrong, Sarah.

It's cricket, not polo. Please return to your fellow players.

Sarah, you lose a life.

OK, where are we now? £800 and we're back with you, Neil.

Robin Williams won an Oscar for his role in which film?

It's one of two, and I can't think of what the name of one of them is...

Um...

I've just thought of it - and I hope it's not the other one.

Dead Poets Society.

BUZZER

Dead Poets Society is your answer, is he right?

It's Good Will Hunting.

Yes, you are wrong, Neil. Was that the other one in your mind?

Yes.

Sadly CJ has pipped you there,

and he's going to call you to the Hot Spot.

You've got to take on the Egghead.

You were playing brilliantly - you were winning all the money

and suddenly you're on the edge of being knocked out.

If it's a problem looking at him, look away.

OK, let's try a... frankly, a blind guess question.

Neil...

Um...

giant pandas are renowned for not breeding very regularly

or successfully, so - I would like to think there are 2,000,

but I'm going to go for 200.

-You think they're on the edge of extinction, there.

-I do.

200 only, CJ.

The correct answer is...

..two...

thousand!

So, that's another wrong answer from you, Neil, unfortunately.

That was your last life, as well.

Thanks for playing, you had a storming start, there,

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

-The Egghead has taken his revenge.

-Thank you.

So, the person who has earned half of all the money is now gone.

Don't let him tease or taunt.

You are on £800. There are three of you left.

OK, Jayne, the tomb of King Mausolus,

one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World,

was located in which ancient city?

Athens.

BUZZER

Athens. CJ?

-Halicarnassus.

-Halicarnassus is the right answer, Jayne.

-Were you close to that?

-No!

Yes, Athens, Halicarnassus, you get them mixed up SO easily(!)

It's time to take on the Egghead.

Be kind here, CJ, surely. Jayne's a student welfare officer.

-Yes...

-She looks out for other people.

That's fascinating.

What goes around comes around.

Not absolutely sure what I want for you, Jayne.

But let's try this.

Jayne, have you done any horseracing, or...?

I've done a 5km walk around Aintree.

I don't remember seeing a sign for that.

But... So...

I've never been to Ascot, I need a new hat - let's go for Ascot.

-I like it.

-What do you mean, you like it?!

-I like the idea...

-"I want a new hat."

But I like the idea that you want to think Ascot cos you want a new hat.

As good a reason as any, CJ, for heaven's sake.

-The right answer's Newmarket.

-Ohh...

Jayne, sorry, you're going to lose a life.

Please return to your fellow players.

Jayne, you're down to one life.

Maurice, Sarah, you're also on one.

Next life to go will see a player ejected.

We must be near the klaxon for the final round quite soon.

800.

Maurice, what type of entertainer

takes their name from the Latin for "belly" and "speak"?

Um...

ventriloquism?

Ventriloquist is quite right, well done.

-£200. £1,000!

-Yes!

Sarah, which osteopath was a central figure

in the Profumo scandal of the 1960s?

Stephen Ward.

Stephen Ward is quite right.

£200 goes in the pot.

1,200, we're on. OK, we're motoring.

Look at him getting frustrated.

Jayne, the Flower Duet from the opera Lakme

is a work by which composer?

Puccini?

BUZZER

CJ's buzzed.

Um, I don't know this - I'll guess at Gaetano Donizetti.

No, you're wrong as well. So, both wrong.

-It was Leo Delibes.

-Oh. Ugh.

So, Jayne, you don't get called to the Hot Spot,

but you make no money.

We're still on 1,200.

Maurice - who played the role of Jonathan Kent,

Superman's adoptive father, in the 2013 film Man Of Steel?

Russell Crowe.

-BUZZER

-Russell Crowe. CJ's buzzed.

Haven't seen it, but I think Russell Crowe is Kal-El, I think

Jonathan Kent is Kevin Costner.

Russell Crowe's the wrong answer - CJ's right, it IS Kevin Costner.

You've got to face him again on the Hot Spot.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

-Oh, Maurice, we're so near the final...

-I know!

-I can feel it.

-We don't want to lose you at this point.

-Maurice...

One of my favourite broadcasters, Eddie Mair.

Bit disappointed not to be on that list, CJ.

I said BBC JOURNALIST, so you lost out there for a start.

Is he right, or was it one of the others?

Is he still in? If he's got this wrong, he's out.

The answer is Eddie Mair.

OK, well done, you're still in the game.

Please return to your fellow players.

We must be very close to the klaxon now, £1,200.

MAURICE SIGHS

You may well sigh, you've stayed in.

Sarah, your question.

In Greek mythology, Theseus was the king of which city?

Sparta.

Sparta is your answer.

How interesting, CJ has not buzzed.

Yeah - I don't think it's Sparta, but this one I don't know.

-Athens is the answer...

-Yes.

But you don't get called to the Hot Spot, because he didn't know!

OK, £1,200 you're on.

-KLAXON

-Oh, that was our last question.

And three of you have survived to play in the final.

You've built up a prize pot of £1,200

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

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

So, there is £1,200 up for grabs

and three of you are left.

If you can prove yourselves better than CJ you'll win the money.

But he's 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?

Three lives, the three of them might be quite a team.

No.

He's pretty unsparing, isn't he?

That should make you gird your loins.

OK, CJ, let's play.

Your first question - in the classic version of the famous tale,

which Roman slave is said to have pulled a thorn from a lion's paw?

Androcles.

Androcles is the right answer.

Got one out of one.

Walrus, Fu Manchu and toothbrush are all types of what?

The reason I dread Movember - moustaches.

Moustaches is correct, two out of two.

Which diver won two Olympic gold medals in 1988 despite hitting

his head on the springboard and injuring himself?

Greg Louganis.

Greg Louganis is the right answer, correct.

Well done, three out of three.

What type of creature is Rudyard Kipling's Riki-Tiki-Tavi?

Mongoose.

Mongoose is correct.

You've got four out of four.

In which 1960 Jean-Luc Godard film

did Jean-Paul Belmondo play a small-time crook

betrayed by Jean Seberg?

It's a Godard film of the 1960s including a small-time crook,

so it's either going to be The Bicycle Thief

or The Bicycle Thieves, but I don't know if it's singular or plural.

Got to press you for an answer here.

I'll say The Bicycle Thieves.

Completely wrong. Nothing to do with that at all.

-Breathless, or A Bout De Souffle.

-Not a chance.

Regarded as one of the greatest films ever made.

Would never have got it.

Four out of five.

Next question. Midnight Memories is a 2013 album by which band?

I think you're pushing the definition of "band", though.

It's One Direction.

One Direction is correct, five out of six.

John Moores University is based in which city?

Blind guess, Edinburgh.

Do you know, out of interest?

-ALL: Liverpool.

-Liverpool, they all say. That's the answer.

You've got five out of seven. Next question -

what does the J stand for in the name of the writer JG Ballard?

Should just know this, and I don't. But...

James, Joseph...

I thought it was something more interesting. It's not Jerome.

Jack, Jacob...

James...

No, don't know this one, either.

Um, John.

No, it's James.

It IS James, oh.

-So, five out of eight.

-Oh, dear.

Which British actor plays the role of secret service agent

Mike Banning in the 2013 film Olympus Has Fallen?

Aah, what's his surname?!

Oh, my Lord.

I can't remember his surname.

His first name's Gerard.

Can't think of his surname.

The answer is Gerard Butler. Five out of nine.

Last question, CJ.

By what name is the songwriter David Ivor Davies,

born in Cardiff in 1893, better known?

Ivor Novello.

-Ivor Novello is the right answer, well done. Six out of ten.

-Oh...

Slight implosion somewhere, there, but anyway...

Do you think it's good enough?

Close.

It's the highest praise he will ever give out to a team of challengers.

You are now a team.

Jayne, Maurice, Sarah - you've got your target,

and you can now work together to try to beat it.

Now, 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 will win the £1,200.

Shall we go for it?

-Yes.

-Let's do it.

Your first question - who plays Harry Hill's evil twin brother

in the 2013 film The Harry Hill Movie?

-Have you seen it?

-No.

It's the guy from, "I'm the only gay in the village." What's he called?

-Is it David...?

-No, the one that works with him.

-Matt Lucas.

-I think it's Matt Lucas.

-He's in the movie.

-Yeah.

That's fine.

Matt Lucas.

Matt Lucas is correct.

-Yes!

-Well done, Jayne.

One point to you.

Chasing CJ's target of six. Got to beat it to get your £1,200.

Your next question - Easter Island in the Pacific,

famous for its giant stone statues,

is a special territory of which country?

-I think it's Chile.

-Oh, right!

-I'm pretty sure it's Chile.

-Have you got any...?

-No.

-That's fine. Go with our gut.

-Go on.

Chile.

Chile is the right answer.

-Well done, us.

-Two points.

The Australian Heather McKay won every competitive match

that she played between 1962 and 1981 in which sport?

-That's a long period of time, that's 19 years.

-Yeah.

She wins every match. Can't be tennis, can it?

-We'd have heard of her.

-We would have heard of her, yes.

-So, what are we left with?

-Match...

-Table tennis?

-Badminton?

-Badminton...

Badminton's... Could be badminton.

-Nothing rings a bell.

-No.

Thinking badminton?

Yeah, let's go with badminton. We've got lives, haven't we?

OK. Badminton.

Heather McKay is cited by some

as the greatest sportswoman of all time,

because she had nearly 20 years unbeaten,

and it was squash.

-Oh!

-Squash.

-You lose a life, players.

You're down to two lives.

You're chasing CJ's target of six.

How Long Will I Love You was a UK hit single

for which female vocalist in 2013?

Well, who was big last year? Ellie Goulding...

-Jessie J...

-Adele.

-Adele.

I don't know, but...

-Ellie Goulding, shall we go for that?

-If I went with one...

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-Ellie Goulding? Let's try.

-Ellie Goulding.

Excellent work, it is Ellie Goulding.

-Yes!

-Got three points now.

Two lives left.

Which famous battle took place on August the 26th 1346?

-Bannockburn...

-No, it's not Bannockburn.

-That was 1314.

-Right.

What's the one that was just outside...

Culloden, what about that?

-Could be.

-Could be.

Or what about English battles?

When was Agincourt?

-I don't know.

-When was Agincourt?

Could be around that time. What do you think?

Culloden or Agincourt?

-I think I would go for Agincourt.

-OK. Let's try that.

-OK.

-Yeah, I'm happy with that.

-I'm happy with that.

Agincourt.

Agincourt is your answer - CJ, no?

-Crecy.

-Crecy.

-When was Agincourt?

-1415.

Oh, right.

This was 1346, the Battle of Crecy.

You get it wrong, I have to take a life away.

So, you mustn't get another question wrong.

When you lose that life, the game is over.

You're playing for £1,200, you've got to overhaul CJ's six.

You need the next four questions correct.

Which author created the fictional character Conan the Barbarian?

-Um...

-It's not something I would....

-No.

-..know about.

So, did it start as a graphic novel, or did it start just as a novel?

-I don't know.

-I have no idea.

When was it written?

-I'm not...

-I'm not sure.

-It was a film in the '80s, wasn't it?

-Film, it was a film, wasn't it?

In the '80s, but...

I think it's possibly a book from the '60s, '70s, I would have thought.

That sort of area. But as regards an author, I couldn't hazard a guess.

James Clavell?

-Yeah?

-He wrote, um...

-Oh, he did the samurai type things, didn't he?

-Yeah...

-Go for that. Go for it.

-Let's try. We've got nothing else.

James Clavell.

James Clavell...

..is the wrong answer. It's Robert E Howard.

-Oh.

-We wouldn't have got that.

-JEREMY SIGHS

-Would you have known that, CJ?

I got as far as Robert and I couldn't get any further.

Robert E Howard, Conan the Barbarian.

A little way off CJ's target, there.

So, unfortunately, contestants, you've lost all your lives,

and you've failed to beat CJ's target,

which means you leave here with nothing.

What a shame we can't wipe the smile off his face just yet.

Congratulations, CJ.

You've definitely shown, again, why you are an Egghead.

So, join us again next time, when CJ will be doing his utmost to

crush another five contestants on Revenge of the Egghead.

Goodbye.