Episode 26 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.

Hi. I'm Karen.

I run a business consultancy and I'm from Worcestershire.

Hi. I'm Mikey. I'm a teaching student from Rochdale.

Hi. I'm Anna. I work in market research and I'm from London.

Hi. I'm Adam. I'm a project manager from Essex.

Hi. I'm Mike. I'm a bookmaker from the West Midlands.

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.

-How are you feeling today?

-Very, very confident, thank you, Jeremy.

CJ, I know you've been revising, as you always do, between shows.

Anything in particular that you're looking at at the moment?

I've been looking at Central American dictators.

In all the breaks, he's like thumbing through books

and everything. So 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, 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 one

of his specially written questions, which are pretty dastardly.

Get that wrong,

you will lose one of those two lives which are lit up in front of you.

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

However many of you survive to the end of the game will have

a shot at sharing the prize money you've banked.

Let's begin, shall we?

First question to you, Karen.

Benazir Bhutto was the prime minister of which country?

-Pakistan.

-Straight to it. Well done. Pakistan is correct.

£200 in the bank.

OK, Mikey, what is the name of Andy Murray's brother,

a former Wimbledon mixed doubles champion?

-Jamie.

-Jamie is correct. Anna, your question.

In which year did Neil Armstrong become the first man to

walk on the moon?

Um... 19...

..60?

BUZZER

1960 is your answer and CJ has challenged.

-You do look uncertain, Anna, I must say.

-Yeah.

-CJ?

-It's July 20th 1969.

-1969, said CJ.

CJ is correct. I'm sorry, Anna. CJ has caught you out,

which means you're going to have to take your place on the Hot Spot

and face one of his beastly specially designed questions.

If you get it wrong, you will lose a life. You only have two lives.

So it's time to take on the Egghead.

-Oh, Anna. This is all happening a bit early.

-It is.

-I think he sensed your uncertainty there.

-I know.

I did know the answer, but I'm sure everyone says that.

Well, he just came straight in with his buzzer, so, CJ...

I think we're going to have a film question.

Anna...

Take your time here, Anna. If you get this wrong, you'll lose a life.

I think it's Chariots Of Fire.

You sounded pretty certain about that. Have you seen it?

-Yes.

-So what's going on?

Well, I did warn you. I did write this one to be particularly tricky.

And Chariots Of Fire, to some people, may be the obvious answer.

And unfortunately, it is.

Well done! You got it right!

-I was certain he'd befuddled you there.

-Yes.

So, Anna, you've gone on the Hot Spot, you've saved your life.

You still have two lives left. Please rejoin the other players.

Well, that didn't work, did it?

Adam, which novel by George Eliot chronicles

the life of Dorothea Brooke?

I will say...um...

..Watership Down.

BUZZER

-Watership...

-I just went blank.

Unlike Anna, you did project huge confidence there,

-but I'm not sure that's right!

-Well, Richard Adams wrote

Watership Down, but I will guess at Middlemarch.

Middlemarch is the right answer. Watership Down is the wrong answer.

You're vulnerable to an attack by CJ on the Hot Spot.

It's time to take on the Egghead.

Adam...

This is a tricky one.

Yes, that's why I've written them, Adam.

I'm not familiar with Oscar Peterson, unfortunately.

Um... But I am familiar with a bit of jazz.

So this would be an educated guess and I'm going to go for the...

..clarinet.

On the basis that clarinet is a more jazzy instrument than the...?

Yeah, OK. Well, the logic is there, CJ.

-Has he got it right?

-It's piano.

Oscar Peterson was the piano.

You're the first player to lose a life, Adam.

Please return to the other players.

On the front of the desk, you have two lives, Adam.

We're taking one out now, I'm afraid. You only have one life left.

Players, you have banked £400, but of course,

the last couple of goes, no money was banked.

See if you can change that, Mike. Here's your question.

In which animated 2012 film does John C Reilly provide

the voice of a disgruntled video game character?

-Despicable Me.

-BUZZER

-CJ.

-Wreck-It Ralph.

Yes, he's right, Mike. I'm afraid it is Wreck-It Ralph.

He's taken out three of you in a row.

Got you onto the Hot Spot, at least.

And he's going to pose you one of his questions.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

CJ, what are you thinking?

I'm thinking a film question, quite obviously!

So, Mike...

As you gathered, this is not my strong suit.

I'll guess at Vicki Vale.

Vicki Vale is the character played by Kim Basinger in Batman.

Pepper Potts is from Iron Man.

The other two are from Spider-Man, but this is Gwen Stacy.

You've been on the Hot Spot, you had two lives when you arrived,

you got a question wrong and you're going to lose a life.

Please rejoin the other players.

As you can see, his questions are fiendish

and we have to take a life off you.

Karen, who is Queen Elizabeth II's eldest grandson?

Peter Phillips.

Peter Phillips is the right answer. Playing very well there.

So, £600. How about that? We're back on our way.

Mikey, let's see if you can keep it going.

Betsey Trotwood and the Peggotty family are characters

in which of Charles Dickens' novels?

Hard Times.

BUZZER

-Now, you showed absolutely...

-CJ CHUCKLES

..no sense of doubt there. Why did you buzz?

Cos he's wrong!

LAUGHTER

David Copperfield.

CJ, you have, unfortunately, got it right.

-I know it's very annoying when that happens!

-Tried bluffing.

But, Mikey, it's wrong and therefore,

CJ can ask you one of his specially written questions.

If you got to the Hot Spot, you can take on the Egghead.

Mikey...

Take us through your logic here, Mikey.

I can't see it being a ship's wheel,

for some reason, and I can't see it being cannons.

So I think it's between the other two. I'm not sure.

I'm going to go for wood.

What's the answer, CJ?

Sails.

Mikey, please rejoin the other players.

You're going to lose a life.

So you had two, Mikey. I'm afraid we have to put one out.

You're down to one life. Anna, your question.

What is the state capital of Idaho?

I'll go Chicago.

BUZZER

Chicago is your answer.

-CJ, it's a difficult one, this.

-Maybe for you!

Well, go on.

It's Boise.

Boise is the right answer. Drat!

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

What area are you choosing here, CJ?

Oh, I think we're going to go to US states, don't you?

I think I'm going to go with Virginia.

Hawaii.

-Hawaii is the answer.

-Oh.

And I'm sorry about that.

Well, you had two lives. You're going to lose a life.

Please rejoin the other players.

OK, it's getting awkward now

-and he did catch you out there, on Hawaii.

-He did.

We have to take away one of your lives.

Adam, your question -

the Australian Neil Robertson became world number one

in which sport in 2010?

Oh, that would be tennis.

I love the conviction!

You nearly broke the buzzer, there.

There are only two sports I know.

Tennis I know

and the one I am an expert on is snooker.

And Neil Robertson is the world number one snooker player.

Snooker is the answer.

Unfortunately you chose to bluff on one of CJ's favourite sports

so he knew it was wrong.

You have to return to the Hot Spot, Adam,

I can see you're not looking forward to it,

and face the Egghead!

OK, CJ?

So, Adam, just before you leave us...

-JEREMY LAUGHS

-Hang on a minute!

I'm going to take a punt

on ocean liners, please.

Ocean liners, that really is a punt.

I don't know the answer. CJ?

Neither does Adam. It's aircraft.

Aircraft is the right answer, Adam.

-Well, there we go.

-I'm sorry.

My fate has been decided.

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

-The Egghead has had his revenge.

-OK, thank you.

So we've lost a player. Mike, here's your question.

Who wrote and directed the 2013 film Blue Jasmine

starring Cate Blanchett?

James Cameron.

Oh, I'm trying to imagine James Cameron.

-Go on, CJ, who was it?

-Woody Allen.

-It's Woody Allen's latest film.

-Is it really?

James Cameron directing that

would be with a submarine or something!

CJ caught you out there, Mike.

And you know what that means,

you've got to go to the Hot Spot and take on the Egghead.

Cool head here, Mike, OK?

CJ, what question...? Don't go films again!

I'm not going to go films

but I think I'll stick with entertainment. Mike...

I'm going to go with Adele.

Fingers crossed.

Adele is Mike's answer. CJ?

If you've got this wrong, you will be out of the game.

Cos of her albums,

specifically 19 and 21,

it is Adele.

So you have stayed in. You've saved your life.

Please go back and rejoin the other players.

Time is pushing on.

OK, Karen, you're playing really well.

I don't want to tempt fate.

£600, you've got to get some more money in the bank.

Here's your question.

Which architect founded the Bauhaus school of design?

CJ LAUGHS

Norman Foster.

Norman Foster. CJ has decided that's wrong.

Walter Gropius.

Walter Gropius is the right answer, Karen.

There we are, the first moment you've slipped up in this game.

Please take your position in the Hot Spot and face the Egghead.

So, Karen...

I'm going to go hopefully with some kind of Latin root,

with the "pisi" bit, for foot.

OK, CJ, is she right?

The pisiform bone is in the wrist.

It's the wrist. You're going to lose a life.

Please return to the other players.

All right. Well, you were playing really well.

You have now lost the life. We take one of your lights away.

Mikey, come on, this is your moment.

"Where's Papa going with that axe?" is the first line

of which children's book by EB White?

Charlotte's Web.

Charlotte's Web is correct.

-Yes!

-Well done! So another £200.

Let's see we can get to 1,000. Anna, over to you.

Thomas Cromwell served as chief minister to which king

in the 16th century?

Richard II?

-Richard II. CJ?

-In the 16th century?!

I'm not very good at history.

-Who was it?

-It's Henry VIII.

Henry VIII is the right answer so CJ's caught you out.

He's sniffed out your wrong answer there, Anna.

And I'm afraid you must go to the Hot Spot and face him again!

You've only got one life left. You mustn't get this wrong. CJ?

Anna...

OK, Anna, stay calm here.

You've got the four options, we know it's one of them.

I think the sport that I know least about

is ice hockey.

And cos I haven't heard of him,

I'm quite tempted to go with ice hockey.

It could be American football, as well.

I'm trying to read CJ, not very well!

I think I'll go ice hockey.

I'm afraid he is unreadable.

You've gone for ice hockey on the basis that you haven't heard of him

and you're least familiar with that sport.

Yeah, I feel like if it was baseball,

I might know him

and I don't.

So process of elimination takes me to ice hockey.

Let us see we can wipe that smug look off CJ's face.

Probably the two most famous players of the first half of the 20th century

in baseball were Babe Ruth and...

oh, yes, Mickey Mantle.

It's baseball.

Oh, it is baseball. You only had one life left.

Anna, you're out of the game and I'm afraid out of the money.

The Egghead has had his revenge.

Bye.

I think it's the smile when they get it wrong, CJ,

-that's the problem.

-I do like that, don't you?

So we're pressing on, trying to get to £1,000.

Mike, you get this one right, you get up to 1,000.

Let's get there.

In the sport of hurling, what is the sliotar?

-It's the stick.

-The stick is your answer and it is...

wrong but CJ has not challenged. It is the ball.

Hey, what about that? He let you off the hook.

You don't get any money for that question

so we're still stuck on £800.

OK, Karen, your question.

You've played the best so far.

Which actor starred in the films Only God Forgives and The Notebook?

Kevin Spacey.

Kevin Spacey could be right. Is it?

No. It's Ryan...

And I'm not absolutely sure whether it's Gosling or Reynolds.

But I think...

it's Gosling.

He's right, it's Ryan Gosling.

So, Karen, you now have to go to the Hot Spot.

And after playing so well, you face the edge of the precipice.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

Karen, there's something very unfair about this.

You were storming through. You built up most of the money.

CJ, be gentle.

Karen...

I'm pretty certain I know the answer

and I think it is Mars.

Crunch question.

If you get this wrong, Karen, you're out. CJ?

-It is on Mars.

-It is on Mars, Karen!

Because we know most about Mars.

Well done. You survive, Karen.

-Please rejoin the other players.

-Thank you.

Over to you, Mikey. See if you can get this one right.

ARTPOP is a 2013 album by which an American singer?

-Lady Gaga?

-Oh!

Oo-oo-ooh!

-Did he get that?

-Yes.

-He got it right!

-Oh!

Well done, Mikey. Lady Gaga is correct.

So, Mike, your question.

What was the Pharos of Alexandria?

The lighthouse?

Lighthouse is correct, well done. £1,200 we're on.

Back to you, Karen.

The footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic plays for which country?

I'm not sure. I'll try Russia.

Russia. Ah, CJ?

I've no idea about this one.

I'm simply going on the language.

Simply the language in the name. I don't know it

but I will guess at Bulgaria.

Your football knowledge is so atrocious.

He's a very famous player

and he plays for Sweden.

Never heard of him!

I have at least heard of him.

No Hot Spot

because CJ guessed wrong!

But no money either for your team. £1,200 you stay on.

Mikey, your question.

The questions are coming round faster and faster, here.

In 2013, it was announced that what sort of installation

would be built at Hinkley in Somerset?

An observatory.

An observatory.

Nuclear power station.

Nuclear power station it is, Mikey. Oh, I'm sorry.

I hope this is not the end of you, so close to the final.

You've got to go in the Hot Spot and face the Egghead one more time.

Mikey...

You mustn't get this wrong or you're out of the game.

I don't think it's the Dalai Lama or the Pope

so I think it's between the other two.

And the language sounds more Spanish

and I thought of Spain before it came up.

So I'm going to have to go for the King of Spain

-and hope that's the answer.

-OK, the King of Spain.

If you've got it right, you're still in the game.

We're very close to the final.

If you've got it wrong, you will have left the stage.

CJ?

-It's the Pope, Mikey.

-Oh, you're joking!

Well, you've played well.

We can see your gumption but you've lost your last life, Mickey.

Any words of condolence, CJ?

None whatsoever.

-The Egghead has had his revenge.

-See you later, guys.

Oh, OK, so let's take stock.

You are being cut to ribbons somewhat, here, by our Egghead.

However, you still have sight of £1,200,

which is a good jackpot if it's shared between two people.

You've both got one life left

so you're both on the edge of catastrophe

with another wrong answer.

Mike, the bookmaker, here is your question.

How is the skin infection tinea pedis better known?

Athlete's foot.

Athlete's foot is correct. Well done.

£1,400.

No more questions. That was the last one.

Two of you have survived to play in the final.

You've built up that prize pot of £1,400.

You've got the chance, now, to take that home.

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

So here we are.

There's £1,400 up for grabs and two of you left.

If you can prove yourselves better than CJ,

you will win the money.

But he's come going to do everything he can to stop you,

cos that's what he does.

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

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

Are you ready? Are you confident, CJ?

I think I've got every reason to be, yeah.

So I'll ask you the ten questions

and then you have to beat his total. Let's play.

First question,

which artist designed the 2013 Brit Awards trophy?

Damien Hirst.

Damien Hirst is the right answer.

One right.

What type of creature is a whip-poor-will?

It's a fish.

It's a bird, CJ.

-Not big on birds?

-Never have been.

That's one correct out of two.

In which country was the opera singer Dame Nellie Melba born?

Oh, where was she born? Ah!

Mmm...

Australia.

Australia is correct. That's two out of three.

Which poem by Tennyson starts with the line

"On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye"?

This is going to be a blind guess...

In Memoriam.

It's The Lady Of Shalott.

That's two correct out of four.

What foodstuff is created by melliferous insects?

I'll try for honey.

Three correct out of five.

Next question, Spencer Matthews and Binky Felstead

have found fame appearing on which structured reality TV show?

Binky?

That sounds like a sort of self-important name

that you'd have in Chelsea, so I'll try Made In Chelsea.

That's four correct out of six.

The mouth of the River Danube is on which sea?

Mediterranean.

The Black Sea! That's still four out of seven.

Next question, in which city was

the statesman and political philosopher Nicolo Machiavelli born?

He was famous, wasn't he, for advising the doge,

so presumably Venice.

-Florence is the answer.

-Oh, good Lord.

You started badly, you caught up and you've fallen back again.

Four correct out of eight.

What is the first name of the woman who married Bill Gates in 1994?

Melinda.

Melinda is correct.

Five correct out of nine.

What is a Sam Browne,

typically worn by members of the police force or army?

It's a belt.

It is a belt. And that's six correct out of ten.

-You look cross with yourself.

-I'm...I'm annoyed.

I mean, a couple of those, I should have known,

but at least three of them were little more than educated guesses,

so, on balance, OK.

So you've set a target of six.

-Do you think it's good enough to win?

-Yes.

Karen and Mike, you have your target now

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

You have got two 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 win.

£1,400 we're playing for.

So simple, isn't it? You can do it.

Don't be put off by him staring at you.

Here's your first question.

Which actor was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji in 1943?

Yeah...Ben Kingsley.

Ben Kingsley is the right answer.

-Gaborone is the capital city of which African country?

-Oh, um...

Can't think of the country it goes with.

I know most of the African capitals.

If you tell me the country...

-Ivory Coast?

-No.

That's Abidjan.

It's Botswana...Botswana.

-I don't know.

-Can we go for Botswana?

Botswana is correct.

That's a good start, two correct answers.

You haven't lost a life - you're closer and closer to the £1,400

-and wiping the smile off his face, which is worth even more.

-Yes.

You've got to get to seven correct answers.

In which decade was NATO formed?

Wasn't it after the war?

-Could be '50s, but...

-The wall was built in '61, but...

-I think 40.

-Yeah, '40s.

-I think it was '40s.

We'll go for the '40s.

The '40s is correct - my, my, you are really good quizzers.

Look at him - there's a little bit of reluctant appreciation, there.

He can see how good you are

and he knows you're getting closer to the money.

You've still got your two lives - done well.

Haven't got a wrong answer yet.

Third right answer, well done.

Just got to get to seven.

What was the first name of Hutch in the TV series

-Starsky and Hutch?

-One was Ray,

One was...was it Ray Starsky or Ray Hutch?

-What was the other one called?

-I think it's Ray.

-I don't know Starsky's first name.

-No, I don't know.

-I'll trust you.

-Ray.

-The answer?

-Ray.

Ray is your answer.

Ken was the right answer, not Ray.

Sorry about that.

So you have lost a life.

One life goes out.

One more wrong answer, the game is over.

Carry through to seven and you win £1,400 and beat CJ.

You're playing well. Don't let that put you off.

-What does an oologist study?

-Eggs.

-Yes.

-Eggs.

-Eggs.

Eggs is fine - birds' eggs.

Correct.

You need three more correct answers. Come on.

The Bluth family are the central characters

in which TV sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz?

Could be something like

Malcolm In The Middle?

-That's a sitcom.

-I've seen that, I...

-It has a family.

-Doesn't ring any bells.

What do you want to go for?

-Might be rubbish.

-Say that, cos we don't know anything else.

We can't think of any others,

so we're going to say -

I don't think it's right - Malcolm In The Middle.

Malcolm In The Middle - do you watch that programme?

-I've seen it.

-You've seen it. So you were looking for

American sitcoms, basically.

You only have the one life left.

If you've got this wrong - if - then the contest is over.

The answer is Arrested Development.

-Oh...

-I wouldn't have gone for that.

With that, your final life is extinguished,

Unfortunately, you've lost.

Ah!

I will give them their due - that was a nasty final question.

Unfortunately, you've lost all your lives.

You've failed to beat CJ and he's very happy about that.

It means you leave here with nothing.

Thank you for playing, though.

Congratulations, CJ. You've shown us why you're an egghead.

I say it reluctantly. Maybe he'll lose next time.

Do join us - CJ will be doing his utmost

to crush another five contestants on Revenge Of The Egghead.

Goodbye.