Episode 24 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's meet

the five contestants hoping to get one over on CJ today.

I'm Aran, I'm an actor and I'm from London.

I'm Sam, I'm an events coordinator and I'm from Devon.

I'm Dan, I'm a coffee barista and I'm from Newport.

I'm Kate, I'm a website writer and I'm from Upminster in Essex.

I'm Phil, I'm a lorry driver from Wyndham in Norfolk.

Welcome and good luck to you all.

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

to outsmart CJ de Mooi over here, and what's your mood at the moment?

I'm very confused cos I have a problem here...

I'm not at all sure how I'm going to make this show last half an hour

considering the quality of contestants we have.

Are you studying anything at the moment?

A subject of some interest to me - Eurovision Song Contest winners!

But this comes up a lot in quizzes, Eurovision, doesn't it?

It does, it's one of those...

perpetual lists cos it's been going quite a long time now

so people like to choose all the famous winners and the locations

so...yee!

And if I were to ask you, let's say, who won in 2012, CJ?

That was...

Loreen from Sweden and it took place in Azerbaijan.

OK...he's looking pleased with himself already.

He hasn't answered any questions yet in the actual game

so he's got no reason to be smug or to smirk,

so we'll get started, contestants -

none of you know each other, of course,

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

The big red button.

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

a particularly difficult question that he has written himself.

You get it wrong, you will lose one of those two lives

lit up in front of you.

If you lose them both, you're 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 crack on?

Aran, we start with you - for £200 -

who played Michael Corleone in The Godfather?

WHISPERING: Michael Corleone...

Erm...

..Al Pacino.

Al Pacino is the correct answer.

Gosh, you could easily go for Marlon Brando there.

-Yes, he was the other Corleone.

-Which Corleone was Marlon?

-Vito.

-Vito Corleone. OK.

Well done...good start.

-Sam...how you doing?

-I'm good, thank you!

Here's your first question. Which language was created by

Ludwig Zamenhof in 1887?

Esperanto.

Esperanto is the right answer.

No room for CJ to buzz in at all at the moment,

£400 to the players who are challenging him.

Dan, your question.

In which English county is Leeds Castle located?

Yorkshire.

-BUZZER

-Yorkshire, you say. CJ...?

It's in Kent.

Kent is the right answer, so you are going to have to face CJ

on the Hot Spot and answer

one of his specially written, rather dastardly questions.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

Dan, unfortunately CJ does now choose the question.

What are you going for?

As you did so well at English geography that time, let's try another one.

Well, I've been to the Yorkshire Dales quite a few times.

So, I'm going to rule that one out.

It could be either one of a couple of them.

But I think...

I'll probably go for the Peak District.

So you think Kinder Scout is in the Peak District?

He's been a bit rotten here, he's gone back to Yorkshire with you.

See, he saw a bit of vulnerability there.

Let's see if you got it right.

The CORRECT answer...

..is Peak District.

Well done, Dan. Nice job.

You can return to your fellow players.

So, there we go, he called you out. That's how you do it,

you fended him off, you've kept your two lives, Dan, well done.

You've got £400 in the pot, players, and we move to Kate.

Who played Sir Humphrey Appleby in the 1980s sitcom Yes, Minister?

Paul Eggerton.

BUZZER

-Paul...?

-Eggerton.

-Eggerton?

-For a start, you mean Paul Eddington

who played Jim Hacker,

but Humphrey Appleby was played by Nigel Hawthorne.

-He is right, I'm afraid.

-Fair enough.

He's got that slightly superior tone, hasn't he, today?

-But...in fact, most days. Nigel Hawthorne is the right answer.

-OK.

CJ has corrected you so you will go to the Hot Spot,

it's time to take on the Egghead.

Don't let him put you off. He's got that hard-faced look today.

Kate, one of my favourite subjects...

That is quite obscure, CJ.

Yes, that's the whole point of the game, Jeremy, try and keep up.

Erm, I've never been there

but I'm going to have a stab at Beaver State.

-Beaver State.

-The right answer...

..is Badger State.

-Oh!

-Never mind.

-I thought you had got him

but I'm afraid you're going to lose a life, Kate.

Please return to the other players.

You are down to one life, Kate. Bad luck, he's not easy to play against.

OK, Phil, your first question.

-Welcome to the game, £400 in the bank.

-Thank you.

The 2012 novel Bring Up The Bodies is a sequel to which book?

The Bodysnatcher.

-BUZZER

-The Bodysnatcher?

-Wolf Hall.

Wolf Hall is the answer. By...?

Hilary Mantel. Both books won the Booker Prize.

Yeah. He is, I'm afraid, right. It was Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall

and that means, Phil, you also have to take to the Hot Spot.

This is getting a bit difficult for your team.

Please move there now and take on the Egghead.

-What are you going to try here, CJ?

-I'm going to try to get rid of him.

-Good luck in this...

-Oh-ho!

-Don't want you to lose a life, OK?

-OK.

I'm not a drinker so this is going to be a guess

but it doesn't sound like it comes from this country, further afield.

So, I think I will rule out apples and probably plums.

I would think...cherries.

Cherries is your answer.

The correct answer is plums.

I'm sorry, Phil, that's a very tricky question, though.

-What is a...it's a very obscure brandy.

-I'll try it when I get home.

Well, I hope you'll have something to celebrate

when you get home, Phil. Please return to the other players.

So, we are rather stuck on £400 here.

We had a good start and then we stalled and then we've been

on the Hot Spot a bit too much and, Phil, we have to take a life away.

Back with you, Aran, with your next question.

The French city of Le Havre is situated on the estuary

of which river?

The Seine.

Seine is the right answer.

Another £200 in the bank, £600.

Sam, in folklore, who is the Queen of the Fairies and wife of Oberon?

Titania.

Titania is the right answer.

£800, the players are on.

Dan, which archduke's assassination in Sarajevo

led to the outbreak of WWI?

Franz Ferdinand.

Is the correct answer.

£1,000, you're on, now you're cooking.

OK, over to you, Kate.

The rhea, spelt R-HE-A, is a flightless bird

native to which continent?

Erm, I know it's a bit like an ostrich.

I've got a feeling the rhea comes from Asia.

BUZZER

Asia. CJ, you've buzzed...

No, I don't think it's Asia but I'm having trouble between

Australia and, erm, Africa, but I'll go for...Australia.

-Neither would have been right, it's South America.

-Oh.

South America, the rhea is from, so he's corrected you but he's wrong himself

which means you don't have to go to the Hot Spot and face one of his questions.

-Good.

-But you also don't put any extra money onto the prize pot.

Phil, we turn to you. Which baseball team won the 2013 World Series?

New York Yankees.

The answer is Boston Red Sox, but CJ didn't buzz.

It was one of the Sox, I just couldn't remember which one it was.

There we are, you are off the hook, but no money added.

Back to you, Aran.

In which film does George Clooney play a CIA agent called Bob Barnes?

WHISPERS: CIA agent called Bob Barnes...?

Is it The American?

-The answer is Syriana.

-Ah!

-CJ didn't know it either.

Didn't know that one. I came up with a couple of Clooney films

but knew it wasn't right, I wouldn't have thought of that one.

So, he's given you a free pass then, no extra money

and you don't go to the Hot Spot. Now, over to you, Sam.

Nephrons are part of which organs of the body?

Lungs.

-BUZZER

-The lungs.

Nerves.

-Not the nerves...

-Oh! It's the kidneys.

It is the kidneys but you were there too late, CJ!

Ohhh!

You answered with great confidence there, Sam, I must say.

The first three of you have still got two lives, that's good.

Dan, you've still got two lives. Here is your question...

Stella English and Tom Pellereau

have been previous winners of which TV show?

The Apprentice.

The Apprentice is the right answer.

Up to £1,200. Kate, kimchi is a type of vegetable dish

originating on which continent.

I'm going to go for Asia again.

You're right to stay on Asia, it is the right answer.

Well done, £200 more...

Phil, The Name Of The Rose is a famous novel by which Italian author?

Peledoni.

-BUZZER

-Peledoni is your answer.

Umberto Eco.

-Is correct.

-My second guess.

-CJ's got it right, I'm afraid.

-You ever read it, CJ?

-I have, actually, yeah.

-Yeah, enjoy it?

-No, not at all.

-I read it and I didn't...

The problem with Umberto Eco's books is

they are all murder mysteries that could be combined down to about

100 pages and he chooses to take 800 pages to tell the same story.

Yeah, well, it tied you up for a few weeks. That is one good thing.

Phil, I'm sorry, he's corrected you.

You have to go on the Hot Spot and answer one of his questions.

It is time to face the Egghead.

Well...we notice you only have one life left

-so if you get this wrong, you will be out of the game, Phil.

-OK.

We're going to choose something that will be no doubt relevant to you and me in a few years...

OK...erm...

I think...duke's higher.

I don't know about marquis and I think baronet is lower.

I'm going to go with viscount.

The right answer is viscount.

Brilliant, Phil, well done.

Spared! You can return to your fellow players.

HE CHUCKLES

Oh...I thought you might have been on the edge there.

You can see what he's trying to do,

he's trying to winkle you out with these...

I've put on my favourite CJ shirt too!

-That's not going to help.

-I can see that now.

If anything, that makes him jealous.

Aran, your question, what was the first name of Lenin,

the leader of the Bolshevik revolution?

Vladimir.

Vladimir is correct. £200.

Up to 1,600, well done. Sam...

which palace is the official London home of the Archbishop of Canterbury?

Lambeth.

Lambeth Palace is correct, you are playing really well, Sam,

two lives left and you've won another £200.

Dan, you get this right, you are on to 2,000.

You're just suddenly now motoring, aren't you?

In Japan what is a shinkansen?

-Could you spell that for me?

-S-HI-N-K-A-N-S-E-N

Shinkansen.

It's a fruit.

-BUZZER

-A fruit.

Not really, it's a train.

He's right, I'm afraid, it is the bullet train, the shinkansen,

so you got it wrong, Dan, you will have to face

CJ from the Hot Spot, it's time to take on the Egghead.

-CJ...

-Dan...

That's another tough one. I know Arthur Conan Doyle,

quite famous, so is Rudyard Kipling.

The other two I'm not too sure on,

probably take a stab in the dark at Rudyard Kipling.

So you've gone for Rudyard Kipling.

The correct answer is John Buchan.

John Buchan is the right answer.

-What did he write?

-Most famous for The Thirty Nine Steps.

Joseph Conrad is most famous for Heart Of Darkness.

Well, I'm sorry, Dan, we are going to have to take a life off you.

Please go back to your fellow players.

So, you go down from two lives to one.

We can't all be perfect.

-Well...

-Speak for yourself.

LAUGHTER

I knew he was going to disagree with that.

You players are on £1,800. Kate, your question.

Who was the last Englishman to win football's Ballon d'Or?

I'm trying to think, I think it might actually be Gary Lineker.

CJ GROWLS

Well...? You're wrong.

-You're obviously wrong cos you agree with her.

-I thought it was Gary Lineker.

No, Michael Owen is the answer.

So, you don't have to go to the Hot Spot

but you also don't earn any money and we are only

£200 away from 2,000.

Phil, which disease takes its name from the Italian for "bad air".

Bronchitis.

-BUZZER

-Bronchitis is your answer.

-Malaria is my answer.

Mal - aria. Yes, CJ has got that right. Phil, I'm sorry,

he's calling you out to the Hot Spot again, you've got to survive it

-one more time.

-Here we go.

-Please face the Egghead.

-This is becoming a habit, Phil.

-I'm getting used to this space.

You were lucky last time, let's see if we can do it again, keep you in the game.

So far, CJ hasn't knocked anyone out, that's the brutal truth here.

Phil...

Polish cookery...pierogi? I'm going to go with...

..as I haven't got a sweet tooth... dumplings.

If you get this wrong, Phil, you will be out of the game,

-there will be no more questions for you.

-OK.

CJ, please tell us what's happened.

The correct answer is dumplings!

Ha-ha! Well done! You've done it again!

-PHIL CHUCKLES

-Fantastic. You're still in the game.

-Still in.

You can return to your fellow players.

CJ, you're hacking away here, you're not getting anywhere.

Still on 1,800 though, Aran, see if you can take it up to 2,000.

The klaxon could go at any moment. We may be short of time.

Aran, galena is the principal ore of which metallic element?

Tin.

BUZZER

-CJ has buzzed, you're doing a lot of buzzing.

-It's not tin.

I can't remember if it's mercury or lead. Erm...

I'll try lead.

Yeah, lead is the right answer, so, Aran, you are going to have to go

for the first time to the Hot Spot and face one of

CJ's specially-written dastardly questions.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

CJ, what are you going to do here?

The problem is I've got some very difficult questions left

but I'm more inclined to save those

for the people on one life to see if I can get them out. Aran...

Erm... I really don't...

Got a feeling, Jemini, it's just in the back of my head

but er...cos I think, usually the duos seem to get no points...

like... I don't know, I'm just got a feeling about that.

I'll go for...Jemini.

Jemini. CJ...

The correct answer is Jemini.

Jemini is the right answer. Aran, well done!

I don't know if it's a badge of pride

-to know about Eurovision, but you do.

-No, it's not, but er...

You've preserved your lives.

-Please return to your fellow players.

-Thank you.

We play on. You're still on £1,800, though, team.

Let's see if you can get above 2,000.

Sam, your question.

Who released the album Moon Landing in 2013?

James Howard.

James Howard is your answer.

The correct answer is James Blunt, but you didn't buzz.

-Didn't know.

-Didn't know that? OK. Poor old James Blunt,

people don't know the title of his album.

-LAUGHTER

-You're still on £1,800. And amazingly, you are all still here,

no-one's been knocked out yet, we don't often get this.

This is quite good for the final round,

you have a lot of brains there.

Dan, which actress has been married to Frank Sinatra and Andre Previn?

I'll go with Nancy Sinatra.

BUZZER

Nancy Sinatra!

It would be an interesting case of incest that, wouldn't it?!

-LAUGHTER

-Marrying her father.

Er, Mia Farrow.

Mia Farrow is the right answer. It is Mia Farrow.

He has got you on that one, you will have to face him on the Hot Spot.

Dan, it's time to take on the Egghead.

See if you can just stay in the game here, Dan. We're close to the final now.

Wow, you had to know that science would have been one of the ones

-that I wasn't very good on.

-Yes, one of them!

-One of them!

Really tough one.

I'm going to rule out quartz, I don't know why but it's not ringing

home to me. And rock salt... I don't think it would be anywhere near...

It's staring at me, so I'm going to have to go with iodine.

So, you've gone for iodine, this is your last life.

If you've got this wrong, Dan, you're going to be out of the game,

so it's fingers crossed here that you've outsmarted CJ.

CJ...

The correct answer is...

..rock salt.

JEREMY GROANS

-You can't win 'em all.

-You've got the wrong answer, you've now lost

your last life and that means you are out of the game

and out of the money.

Dan, the Egghead has had his revenge.

-You've finally knocked somebody out!

-It took long enough but that was the easy target,

now we're after Kate and Phil.

JEREMY LAUGHS

-Isn't he nice(!)

-He's a lovely man(!)

-He's a lovely man!

-Lucky he's got such good looks.

JEREMY LAUGHS

Kate, here's your question. See if you can get it up to £2,000.

We're on 1,800. Which English town became a city in 2012

for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee?

Oh, no...

Chelmsford.

Chelmsford is the right answer. That's £200 into the pot...

Phil, we move to you with your one life left, see if you can move this total up.

The Worm was the nickname of which basketball player born in 1961?

Marcus Hanks.

-Marcus Hanks was not The Worm but CJ doesn't know that.

-No idea.

Dennis Rodman. Born in '61, so, no money for you,

but also you've avoided being taken to the Hot Spot by CJ.

Back to you, Aran, we are on £2,000...

-KLAXON

-Oh! And we have no more time for any more questions

in this part of the game, so...

four of you have survived, that's the good news, you'll be playing

in the final. More people to share the money, but more brains

to work against CJ, You've built up a prize pot of £2,000.

You now have the chance to take that money home.

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

So, there is £2,000 up for grabs and four of you left here.

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

but he is, of course, going to do everything he can to stop you.

I'm going to ask CJ 10 general knowledge questions.

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

Are you ready, CJ?

It's going to be a tough one, this, six lives is a lot,

I'm going to need to put in a good score.

CJ, I'm going to ask you your 10 questions starting now...

The phrase "Veni, vidi, vici" is most associated with

which historical figure?

Julius Caesar.

Is correct. Your first one right.

Next question - the character Michael Myers appears in which

series of horror films?

Halloween.

Is correct. Two out of two.

The Ellis Islands achieved independence under what name?

Haven't heard of them.

It's going to be a blind guess - the Virgin Islands.

-Tuvalu.

-OK.

Two out of three. Next question - on a drinks bottle

what does the abbreviation ABV stand for.

That's annoying, I used to know this.

CJ LAUGHS

ABV.

I really don't know, I really don't know what the answer is. Erm...

Average bottle volume.

-Nearly, but not quite, not close enough - alcohol by volume.

-Yes.

Two out of four. Next question -

which long-running character did Ian Smith play in Neighbours?

I think I watched Neighbours once when it very first started.

Harold Bishop.

-Is he right?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, he is right. How do you do that?!

CJ LAUGHS

How did you do that? Three out of five.

Which football team plays its home matches at the Bernabeu stadium?

Real Madrid.

Is the right answer, four out of six. Next question -

Defying Gravity is a song from which musical?

Oh, I know my West End Musicals!

Er, that's from Wicked.

Wicked is the right answer, you've got five out of seven.

In the United States,

if you cross Georgia's southern border, which state would you enter?

Well, I think it borders Florida, but whether that's...

to the south or to the east, I don't know.

Er...

I'll go for Florida.

Is correct. You've got six out of eight.

What is the surname of the children's character Postman Pat?

Oh...dear!

What a great question that is.

I don't think I'm going to be able to remember this one, er...

No, I don't know, Jones.

No, it's Clifton. Pat Clifton.

-Yes, I've heard of it.

-So, you've got six out of nine.

-Yeah.

-Your last question -

the Percheron is a large breed of which animal?

Sounds like a dog but I haven't actually heard of it.

There are quite a few large breeds of dog.

Sheep, maybe?

OK, I don't know this one either, I will try dog.

It's not dog.

-CJ EXHALES

-Horse is the answer.

Six out of ten, CJ.

So, Aran, Sam, Kate and Phil, you have your target, you can now

work together as a team to beat it. You have to go beyond six,

you have to go to seven.

You have six lives remaining, which is very handy,

but if you give me an incorrect answer, I will take a life away.

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

-you win the £2,000! Shall we play?

-Yes.

OK, your first question -

Wrecking Ball was a 2013 single by which female singer?

WHISPERS: Miley Cyrus.

-Definitely.

-Can we say Miley Cyrus?

Is correct, well done, you've got a point.

212 degrees is the boiling point of water on which temperature scale?

-It must be Fahrenheit.

-Yeah.

It is Fahrenheit, isn't it, the higher one out of the two?

-Happy with that?

-Let's go with that.

We will say Fahrenheit.

Is correct, you've got two points.

Which British actress won an Oscar for her role

in the 1960s film Darling?

-That will be Julie Christie, I think.

-Yeah.

-I think that's Julie Christie.

-That sort of age group.

-The '60s.

-I'm happy to go with that.

-Yeah.

-Trust the actor.

-Julie Christie.

-Is correct.

-Yes!

-Well done.

Oh, this is looking very tricky, CJ, they've got three right,

they've got six lives left.

Not put a foot wrong so far. Your next question -

Beth Tweddle was a world champion in which sport?

-Gymnastics.

-Yeah.

Definitely.

Yes, I think she's just retired

and she's from Liverpool and she's done very well

and I think she is a...gymnast.

-Gymnastics is correct.

-Well done.

Who wrote the 1855 poem The Song Of Hiawatha?

Is it Tennyson or is it Coleridge?

Erm, it's not ringing any bells for me, I don't know.

I think it would be too...

late for Coleridge...possibly. I've got a feeling it's Tennyson

but I'm not sure. It's a bit of a guess.

I'll go with you, I don't know.

Lord Alfred Tennyson.

It's not Lord Alfred Tennyson. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

-Ah.

-But you lost a life there.

You are on four points. CJ got six. If you get beyond six

you get £2,000 and you've got five lives left.

John Hunt was the leader of the British expedition to which mountain in 1953?

-'53 was when they conquered Everest.

-Yes.

So...thinking of that, it must be Mount Everest? With Hillary...?

-Hillary was there, wasn't he?

-He did the ascent.

-Yeah.

-Shall we go with Everest?

-ALL: Yeah.

Mount Everest.

-Everest is correct.

-Well done.

You're doing really well. You've got five points now,

CJ scored six, you are close to his total.

Daniel Bruhl played which racing driver in the film Rush?

Niki Lauda. I know this.

-LAUGHTER I saw it.

-We'll just go with that.

-The other guy was Australian,

he played the...James Hunt, but Daniel Bruhl played Niki Lauda.

Is the right answer.

-Well done.

-Well, you're level with CJ's total.

You're doing really well, out of seven you've got six correct so far.

You are now at CJ's level, if you get one more correct

you've taken the £2,000. Just one more.

And five lives left as well. In Greek mythology

Minos was king of which island?

-Was it...

-Crete.

-Yeah.

-It was.

-The Minotaur...

-Yep...

-Is it Crete?

-Yes, Crete is...

We think it's Crete.

If you've got this right, you've taken the contest,

Minos was the king of...

..Crete...

-ALL: YES!

-..in Greek mythology.

-Well done!

-Well done, players!

You have beaten CJ's target and you take home

the jackpot of £2,000. Really good quizzing!

Ah, CJ, it was that end of your 10 questions which let you down.

Nevertheless if they get their questions right, there's nothing I can do about it.

Well done, you were on a great streak then,

nothing really troubled you much.

How are you feeling? You've beaten CJ.

-Fantastic. Really good.

-Can we have another go?

LAUGHTER

All right, we're all friends here, join us next time when CJ

will be doing his best to restore his pride by crushing another

five contestants on Revenge Of The Egghead.

Goodbye.