Episode 25 Revenge of the Egghead

These contestants are hoping to walk away 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 supply teacher from Kent.

Hello, I'm Dosha.

I'm a freelance writer and editor from Nunney in Somerset.

I'm Eddie, I'm a financial PR, and I'm from Cumbria.

I'm Jamie, I'm a domestic goddess, originally from Alabama,

and I live in Surrey.

I'm Andy, I'm a director of an IT solutions company in Loughborough.

Welcome, everyone, and good luck to you all.

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

you will need to outsmart CJ De Mooi. It is not easy.

-How are you feeling, CJ?

-Very confident, and with good cause.

You've been studying subjects, what is it today?

I've been looking at subjects that don't interest me

or indeed anybody with any brain cells,

so I've been looking at football, specifically, mascots.

Mascots! So I could ask you for a team mascot,

-and you would know?

-Probably.

Arsenal?

Gunnersaurus Rex. GENTLE LAUGHTER

Yeovil Town?

The Jolly Green Giant. Apparently! HE LAUGHS

I can't remember a mascot question in any quiz I've ever seen on TV.

So, let's see if CJ's work has been worthwhile.

What do you make of the line-up here?

A nice, interesting mix.

Different nationalities, different ages.

All the more satisfying to crush.

-HE LAUGHS

-Let's get started, then.

So, contestants, none of you know each other,

you've not met before today.

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

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

a particularly difficult question he's written himself.

If you get it wrong, you'll lose

one of those two lives on the front of the desk.

And, if you lose them both, you are out of the game.

Now, whoever survives to the end of the game

will then have a shot at sharing the prize money.

So, shall we begin?

Good luck to you. Don't be intimidated by him,

he enjoys it far too much.

David, it's your question first, OK?

Which singer was born on 8 January 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi?

Elvis Presley.

Elvis Presley is correct.

£200 in the bank, good stuff.

Dosha, your question.

How many cards are there in each suit in a standard pack of cards?

-13.

-13 is right, well done.

£400 there.

Eddie, your question. Don't look nervous, don't worry,

you're not yet on the hot spot, you're fine.

@rustyrockets is the Twitter handle of which British comedian and actor?

Russell Brand.

Russell Brand is right. Another £200, up to 600.

You're playing well.

Jamie, here we go.

The football club Hearts are based in which British city?

Lincoln?

BUZZER

Lincoln is the answer, or not?

Edinburgh.

It's a little way off.

I'm sorry, Jamie, CJ has caught you out,

which means you'll have to take your place on the hot spot

and face one of his multiple-choice questions,

and risk losing one of those precious lives.

Watch out, because these are particularly tricky,

as he has written the questions himself.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

I'm hoping he doesn't take advantage of your being from Alabama, Jamie.

-Yeah.

-Let's see.

What are you thinking here, Jamie, take us through your thoughts?

I'm thinking the DART has to be something quite fast.

I don't think San Francisco

because we don't have a lot of that kind of thing.

My guess would have to be

-Riga.

-Riga?

-Riga's, what, Latvia?

-Yes.

Is it the answer?

No.

The correct answer, Jamie, is Dublin.

Dublin, Jamie.

I can only apologise.

Please return to your fellow players.

You're on £600, players.

Jamie, we have to take a life away from you, though.

Anyway, you are still in the game.

Now we go to Andy.

Don't look worried, Andy, because that just encourages him.

The Lockheed C-130 military transport aircraft

is commonly known by what name?

Hercules.

Hercules is the right answer.

Back to the start, £800, well done.

David, your question.

CH is the international vehicle registration code for which country?

Switzerland.

Switzerland is the right answer, David, you go up to £1,000.

The team is playing well. Dosha, you're next.

What was the surname of the doctor

whose portrait Vincent van Gogh famously painted in 1890?

Dr Meursault?

BUZZER

You were quick on that, what is it?

Portrait of Dr Gachet.

Gachet is the right answer.

-Where did Meursault come from?

-It's a wine.

It's a wine, Marceau!

I'm afraid it was Gachet. CJ is right.

You have to face one of his specially written questions

on the hot spot. It's time to take on the Egghead.

I think you'll really like this one, Dosha.

I'll try Prince.

I'm afraid the correct answer, Dosha, is...

-Prince.

-Well done, Dosha.

Fantastic. OK.

You have preserved your life. Please go back to your fellow players.

So, you're on £1,000, you're doing pretty well,

you've only lost one life so far.

Eddie, your question.

The River Vistula empties into which sea?

Erm... Caspian Sea.

BUZZER

-Caspian Sea is your answer.

-I'll go for the Black Sea.

No, actually, you're wrong, it's the Baltic Sea.

-Oh.

-So, CJ tried to correct you, but he was wrong as well.

You don't get any money for your answer,

but you don't go to the hot spot. You've survived.

Jamie, your question now.

It's getting a bit white-knuckled here, isn't it?

In August 1958, the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus

became the first to travel beneath what?

-Beneath a canal?

-BUZZER

Beneath a canal?

It's a 50-50 chance, it's one of the Poles.

-HE LAUGHS

-I'll go for the North Pole.

I'm afraid, Jamie, that he is correct, it is the North Pole.

1958. So we're in a slightly worrying situation here.

-Are you ready to face CJ's question again?

-I am.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

CJ, we know Jamie is from Alabama.

We do not want any of these silly geography questions

that you used last time.

Fine. We won't have a silly geography question.

Jamie.

I would call that a geography question, CJ, really.

I'm going to go with Warwickshire.

The correct answer is...

Yorkshire.

Ah.

Jamie, I'm sorry, I tried to protect you from a geography question.

-He got it in by another route there.

-Yes, he got me.

That's your last life. We have to say thanks for playing, Jamie,

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

The Egghead has had his revenge.

That is quite salutary, that was quite a swift dispatch there, Jamie.

All the other lives are still in place, though.

You're on £1,000.

Andy, your question.

What's the capital of Puerto Rico?

-Manila.

-BUZZER

Manila is the answer?

-No, it's not, that's the capital of the Philippines.

-Go on?

-San Juan.

San Juan is the correct answer.

CJ's got that right, I'm afraid. It's very annoying.

He has that expression as well.

You're going to have to go to the hot spot, Andy.

It's time to face the Egghead.

All you know about Andy is that he's in IT, CJ.

So what's your thinking here with the subject area?

That his knowledge will be very limited in all areas.

Andy, ignore that. He is just being himself.

Andy.

-Thailand.

-Is that a hunch, or logic?

I'd like to say it was logic, but there's no logic involved.

It's an outright guess, just to upset CJ if it's correct.

Let's see if you can upset him?

The correct answer is South Korea.

Oh, Andy, you're going to lose a life there.

Please return to your fellow players.

We have to take off one of your lives.

David. You still have two lives.

The team is on £1,000.

This is not bad going at all. Here's your question.

A mojito cocktail typically consists of white rum, lime or lemon juice,

sugar, sparkling water, ice and which aromatic herb?

Angostura.

BUZZER

-Angostura? Well, you don't drink, so...

-It's mint.

Mint is the answer.

David, go to the hot spot now, and take on the Egghead, please.

David.

I really don't know, so I'm going to take a stab in the dark

and say...

Universal.

By your expression, he's got it right.

The correct answer is...

..RKO.

Ooh, so more damage for our players over here.

You're going to lose a life, David, but you're not out yet.

Please return to your fellow players.

-There's no danger of you becoming a recluse at any time soon?

-No.

-What a shame.

-Or modest.

-JEREMY LAUGHS

-So, we have to take

one of your lives away, David.

There it goes. But the players are on £1,000.

Dosha, your question now.

Who directed the cult film Easy Rider?

Dennis Hopper.

BUZZER

CJ has buzzed.

-Dennis Hopper?

-John Schlesinger?

-Well, actually, Dosha, you are right.

-Ugh.

Which means you are wrong, CJ.

It's not John Schlesinger.

So, Dosha, it doesn't happen very often, well done.

You've won not just £200

but you get an extra £100

for you for outsmarting CJ. Nice work.

£1,300.

The whole team over here is grinning.

Eddie, your question.

The Royal Pavilion, built as a retreat for George, Prince of Wales,

is located in which coastal town?

Is it Brighton?

Brighton is right.

£1,500.

Andy, Olof Palme, who was assassinated whilst in office

in 1986, was Prime Minister of which country?

-Norway.

-BUZZER

Norway?

Next door, Sweden.

It's the right neck of the woods, but it was Sweden, I'm afraid.

-So, you know what happens now, Andy.

-Yep.

Your last life is in danger. You've got to go to the hot spot.

Time to take on the Egghead.

If you get this one wrong, Andy, you're out of the game.

What sort of area are you thinking about, CJ?

We're going to have popular culture.

Andy.

Have you seen any of them, Andy?

Fortunately, I've seen them all.

-Ah, that's good.

-I know the answer.

-You know the answer here?

I do, so I'm looking forward to seeing CJ look a little more sad.

JEREMY LAUGHS

All right, take it slowly and don't get it wrong.

It's Django Unchained.

If you've got this wrong, you are out of the game, Andy.

Let's see what CJ says.

The correct answer is Django Unchained.

Well done.

So you are still in the game, do return to your fellow players.

There we are. It can be done.

You've still got one life.

The players have £1,500 between them.

And we go to you, David, at the front of the line here.

Who had a top 20 hit in 1980 with

You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties?

Katrina And The Waves.

-Katrina And The Waves.

-JEREMY LAUGHS

-Do you not know that?

-I've never heard of it, I'm afraid.

It was Jona Lewie.

But, happily for you, CJ didn't know that either.

It wasn't Katrina And The Waves.

So you don't make any money there,

but you also don't go on the hot spot. £1,500.

Dosha.

Which oceanographer won an Oscar for his 1956 documentary,

-The Silent World?

-Jacques Cousteau.

Jacques Cousteau is correct, another £200.

1,700. Dosha, you're playing really well.

Eddie. Shanklin is a popular seaside resort on which British island?

Erm... The Isle of Wight?

-Yeah.

-He's right. Yes.

CJ registers disapproval, because you've got the right answer.

Like Dosha, you've still got two lives. £1,900. Playing well.

Andy. See if you can keep him off your back here.

In which country was Salvador Allende

overthrown as president in a 1973 coup?

Nicaragua.

-BUZZER

-Nicaragua?

-Chile.

You've buzzed and you are right. It is Chile.

Andy, I'm sorry, you got it wrong. You have to go to the Hot Spot.

It is time to face the Egghead.

All right, I can't guarantee a Tarantino question here, Andy.

You survived it last time. You have now got one life left.

If this question is too difficult for you, you will be leaving us.

Let's see if I can do what I couldn't do last time.

I've a sneaking suspicion that this might be an

out-and-out bluff on CJ's part.

I shall go for the most obvious, and T.

Yeah, I guess if you don't know, and I don't know,

you might think he's double bluffing you. Andy's gone for T.

If you've got it wrong, you're out of the game, Andy.

-We don't want to lose you.

-The correct answer...

..is W.

Andy, he would have got me with that as well. That was your last life.

Thanks for playing. The Egghead has taken his revenge.

OK, three of you left. £1,900.

Barra Airport in Scotland, David, is reputed to be the only airport

in the world with scheduled airline services using what as a runway?

I would guess a road.

A road, you say. The answer is beach.

-But CJ didn't know it either.

-No, I would have guessed a road as well.

Barra Airport uses a beach. You're OK.

You made no money there, but not been challenged,

and you're saved from the Hot Spot.

Dosha, what title equivalent to ambassador is given to

the senior diplomat in charge of the diplomatic mission of

one Commonwealth government to another?

Consul.

Consul is the wrong answer, but CJ didn't buzz.

High commissioner is the right answer.

-No money, but you're spared the

-hot spot. Oh!

Eddie, the American musician Peter Buck is best known for having

been the guitarist in which band?

The Doors.

-BUZZER

-The Doors. No?

No! REM.

REM is the band. So, Eddie, you got that wrong.

You have to face CJ on the hot spot, which you haven't done yet,

-have you?

-I haven't.

-OK, it's time to take on the Egghead.

-First time for everything.

Eddie...

Tasmania?

Maybe I was too generous with the question,

putting the word "mainland" in there. The correct answer is Tasmania.

Well done, Eddie. You're living a charmed life in this game.

You can return to your fellow players.

Still got your two lives on the front of the desk.

£1,900, you're on. David, we're back with you. Three of you remaining.

Two of you have got two lives. This is looking quite handy.

What was the first name of Dr Beeching,

the author of the famous 1963 report "The Reshaping of British Railways"?

-John.

-BUZZER

-John Beeching. It was, wasn't it?

-No, that's definitely not right.

Um... Is it Richard?

I don't know how CJ does that. It is Richard.

So it is time to take on the Egghead.

David, let's try you on one of my favourite subjects.

Jefferson.

-Is that a guess, or do you know?

-I think I know it.

Really? Cos they all look a bit American there.

CJ? He's not happy.

The correct answer is Earl.

So it's James Earl Carter. Oh, dear!

You've got it wrong and that was your last life which has gone.

So, thanks very much for playing. The Egghead has had his revenge.

So brutal, CJ. We are on 1,900 and you have got four lives between you.

Time is against us. We'll crack on.

Dosha, Sarpsborg 08 is a football team in the top

flight of which country's football leagues?

-I'll try Holland.

-BUZZER

-Holland?

-Doesn't sound Dutch to me. Obviously, I've got no idea.

I'll try Belgium.

Belgium is wrong, so you're spared. It's Norway.

Still on 1,900. Over to you, Eddie.

What term, first coined by the artist Allan Kaprow,

has come to mean an improvised or spontaneous performance or

situation meant to be seen as art?

Off the cuff.

Off the cuff is your answer.

It's wrong - it's happening.

Happening!

-You don't recognise that?

-I know what it is, but still!

Dosha, back to you. £1,900, you're stuck on.

See if you can get above... Ah, we can't get above 2,000.

The last question has been asked.

So, two of you have survived to play in the final.

You've built up a prize pot of £1,900, so well done on that.

Now you have the chance to take that money home.

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

So, there is £1,900 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 doing that.

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

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

CJ, you've got ten questions, here's your first one.

Who was the first woman to train a Grand National winner?

Jenny Pitman.

Jenny Pitman is right. One out of one. Next question.

Which British military honour is known by the abbreviation DFC?

Distinguished Flying Cross.

Distinguished Flying Cross is correct. Two out of two.

In English legend,

the Fisher King is a wounded man whose duty is to look after what?

King Arthur?

The Holy Grail.

Oh.

Two out of three. Next question.

The ruins of the Ancient City of Babylon, CJ,

lie in which modern day country?

Iraq.

Iraq is correct.

Three out of four. Which actor did Jennifer Connelly marry in 2003?

Paul Bettany.

Paul Bettany is right. I'm sorry. He's playing well. But don't worry.

You've got four out of five.

Montreux, home to a famous jazz festival, is in which country?

Switzerland.

Switzerland is correct. Five out of six, CJ. Next question.

The 1991 book Regeneration is the first in a trilogy by which

Booker Prize winning author?

Oh... I wonder...

Is that the one by Pat Barker? The first of the trilogy by Pat Barker.

Has won the Booker Prize.

Not entirely sure, but I'll try Pat Barker.

Very well done. Pat Barker is the right answer. Six out of seven.

You're playing well. Frustratingly well, may I say!

Your next question, CJ.

Which constellation appears on the flag of Australia?

Oh, Australia. Um...

The Southern Cross.

The Southern Cross is right. Seven out of eight.

In 2001, who succeeded William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party?

Ah... After Hague...

Always get these nonentities mixed up.

Um...

It's either Michael Howard or Iain Duncan Smith,

but I can't remember which one came first.

There was an election in 2005,

which Michael Howard fought.

I'll try Iain Duncan Smith.

Iain Duncan Smith is quite right.

Here's your last question. You've got eight out of nine so far.

Noted for its red and green foliage, what is the common name

for the flower euphorbia pulcherrima?

Poinsettia.

It is Poinsettia.

You've got nine out of ten there, CJ.

I'm not going to apologise to you, cos you haven't lost yet,

but I'm sorry, he's put in a storming performance and that he

then goes and laughs at the end, which doesn't help us either.

So, look, this is how it works, Dosha and Eddie.

He got nine, you have to have ten.

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

You've got four lives remaining, which is very good indeed.

Give me an incorrect answer, though, you will lose a life.

and if you beat CJ's target before you've lost those four lives,

you will win the £1,900.

-Shall we play?

-Yep.

-Your first question.

In which year did Pele first play in the football World Cup finals?

Right, Brazil has won it three or four times. '66, '70...

If we work out from '66...

-He wasn't in '66...

-He was in '70.

-He was in '70.

-I'm pretty sure he was in '70.

Shall we say '70?

19... Yeah. 1970.

-No, a long way before - 1958.

-Oh!

-Oh!

I think he played in... Didn't Pele play in '66? I don't know.

He did play in '70, so I assume he played in '66.

Yeah. So he started in 1958. You lose a life.

-You've gone down to three lives.

-Football gone.

-You've got to

get ten answers correct before you lose all your lives. Your question.

AJ Cronin's novella Country Doctor was the basis for which

TV show of the 1960s and 1970s?

-Right... Gosh.

-I'm a dead weight on this question.

Right, we've got to think of some TV shows with doctors,

so it's not something like Country Practice, which is Australian.

So we've got to think of... Dr Finlay's Casebook.

Oh...

-Why are you in pain?

-It's the right answer.

It IS the right answer. Dr Finlay's Casebook. Well done, Dosha.

-I can't believe I knew that.

-It came out of nothing. Well done!

Next question. Pam Dawber and Robin Williams starred in which TV sitcom?

-That's Mork And Mindy.

-Off you go.

-Mork And Mindy.

Eddie, well done. Mork and Mindy, it is. Hey! What about this?

-What a team!

-You're moving forward.

The Itaipu Dam, officially inaugurated in 1982,

spans which South American river?

Well, do you know any rivers apart from the Amazon?

Apart from the Amazon... Um...

There's the Pilcomayo. I don't know if...

I don't know if there are any dams on the Amazon.

-It could be the obvious answer.

-Try the other one.

-The Pilcomayo?

I like the thought, but it's the Parana.

-Ah, well.

-Parana.

-Didn't know it.

-No.

You lose a life. You have two left.

And you're chasing £1,900.

Which Gerry Anderson TV show featured an organisation

called the World Aquanaut Security Patrol?

-Stingray, surely.

-Is it that one?

-Stingray's submarines and stuff.

-It wasn't Thunderbirds?

-No.

Thunderbirds was International Rescue.

-Oh, right. OK.

-Stingray?

-Stingray is correct.

Ha-ha! This is interesting!

Just keep on plugging on.

Mullingar is the county town of which Irish county?

Oh, mean, these geography questions!

-I don't know any Irish counties.

-Um...

-County...

-County Mayo? That's the only one I know.

-We'll just say Mayo cos it's the only one we can think of.

-Yeah.

-County Mayo.

-Westmeath.

That was the answer. Westmeath. You lose a life, players.

And if you get another one wrong, the game is over and CJ has won.

Get seven more answers correct and you beat him.

-That's right.

-We can do it.

-£1,900, you're chasing.

Which world leader announced his resignation

on the 31st of December 1999?

Hm... Is it an American?

-It wasn't Tony Blair, was it?

-No.

-Um...

-It wouldn't have been Mandela?

Would it? Maybe?

We haven't got a clue. We're going to say Nelson Mandela.

If you've got this wrong, the contest is over.

31st of December 1999. So it's Millennium Eve.

Resignation announced by Boris Yeltsin.

Oh! Couldn't have guessed that.

-Not my area.

-I have to say, players, you lose your last life.

You haven't caught CJ's total of nine

and surpassed it, as you had to, so unfortunately,

we have to say, CJ, congratulations, you've won.

-Thanks for playing. He is good though, isn't he?

-He is very good.

-Yeah.

-I'm sorry about that.

-It's harder than it looks.

-Have you enjoyed playing?

-Oh, yeah.

-Yeah.

Thank you very much indeed for coming in

and facing off with this extraordinary character over here.

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

another five contestants on Revenge Of The Egghead.

Goodbye.