Episode 5 Revenge of the Egghead

These five contestants hope 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 Mike. I'm an apprenticeship manager from Cheshire.

I'm Rachel. I'm a recruitment consultant

and I'm from Northumberland.

I'm Chris. I'm a flight simulation instructor from East Sussex.

I'm Pat. I'm an accounts assistant from Chester.

I'm Tom. I'm a business consultant from London.

Welcome and good luck to all of you.

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

you will need to outsmart CJ de Mooi.

-Now, how are you feeling today, CJ?

-Very well, thank you, Jeremy.

You are, I know, revising behind the scenes.

I know you're learning your lists. What is it at the moment?

One of the things that comes up time and time again in quizzes

is trying to work out an answer from the language.

I've been looking at lots of different languages

and just learning the basics.

So starting off with days of the week.

So you could do Monday in Romanian, for example?

-Luni.

-Luni?

-Yes.

-What about Friday in Italian?

Venerdi. I learnt Italian when I was younger, you know.

OK. Don't be put off by his general demeanour,

cos it falls away very quickly if you do well.

-When you make of the line-up?

-Very interesting.

Strange that we've got no very young people today,

so maybe a few gaps in the knowledge for popular culture.

OK. Well, listen, 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 presses his big red buzzer. And once he's caught you out,

he then has the chance to ask you a particularly difficult question

which he has written himself.

If you get that wrong, you will lose one of the two lives

you've got lit up in front of you.

And 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.

Shall we begin?

OK, first question goes to you, Mike.

The Bay of Biscay is part of which ocean?

That's part of the...

-Mediterranean.

-BUZZER

The Mediterranean isn't an ocean.

You've challenged straightaway on the first answer.

-What do you say it is?

-Well, I'll go for the Atlantic Ocean.

OK. CJ is correct.

-It is the Atlantic.

-Is he?

Well, I'm sorry, Mike, CJ has caught you out,

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

and face one of his dastardly multiple choice questions.

So, Mike, it is time to take on the Egghead.

Now, what kind of question are you thinking of here, CJ?

One that he's going to get wrong, Jeremy.

-LAUGHTER

-OK, good luck, Mike. Don't let him faze you.

Mike.

Being an expert on food like I am,

because it's one of my big hobbies,

that clearly is when it's been flattened.

The correct answer is soaked.

-Oh.

-HE LAUGHS

Well, I must say you had me going there, Mike, completely.

But I'm sorry, you got the wrong answer. CJ's done it.

Please rejoin your fellow players.

And, Mike, because you got that answer wrong on the Hot Spot,

you have to lose a life.

All right, come on, Rachel,

here we go, this is your moment.

The longest day of the year in the UK occurs in which month?

That would be June.

June is quite right.

£200 in the bank.

Chris, your question.

Happy was the title of the UK number one single for which man

at the end of 2013?

Was it...

Ed Bison?

-BUZZER

-Ed Bison is your answer?

Pharrell Williams.

Happy was by Pharrell Williams.

-Is Ed Bison a real person?

-LAUGHTER

He's very real in my world.

LAUGHTER

Wherever he is, he's very happy to be mentioned.

But I'm afraid CJ is correct with his challenge.

So you have to go onto the Hot Spot yourself now, Chris,

and take on the Egghead.

CJ, what kind of question are you going for now?

I don't see any reason to change my theme, so food and drink again.

Chris.

Phoenix? I don't think it's fig.

We'll go for...

date.

You said dates.

-CJ does not look happy.

-The correct answer...

-is dates.

-Well done, Chris.

You got it right. How about that?

You kept both your lives. Please return your fellow players.

-How did that feel? You took on the Egghead...

-It was good, yeah.

..and defeated him on his own territory.

Pat, here's your question.

Carrie Mathison is a character in which award-winning TV series?

Friends.

-BUZZER

-Friends is your answer.

-CJ?

-It's definitely not Friends, but I've no idea what it is.

I will blind-guess...at Ally McBeal.

No, it's not Ally McBeal.

So you don't get any money in the pot, Pat,

but I don't send you to the Hot Spot.

The answer is Homeland.

OK. Tom. What is the women's equivalent of the Ryder Cup?

Er...the Solheim Cup.

Solheim Cup is the right answer.

£200 more into the pot. 400 you've got now.

Mike, back to you.

Which chemical element with the atomic number 27

takes its name from the German word for imp or demon?

I would be having a clear guess.

I don't know. Erm...copper.

BUZZER

-You buzzed, CJ.

-I always get this the wrong way round,

it's either cobalt or nickel. I think it's nickel.

-You have got it the wrong way round.

-Oh, it's cobalt!

-It is cobalt.

It's the wrong answer, Mike, it's cobalt,

but CJ got it wrong too, so you don't have

to go and face him on the Hot Spot.

Rachel -

in which country is the city of Agadir?

That's in Morocco.

Morocco is quite right.

Well done. Another £200 to your team.

£600, you're on.

OK, Chris, your question.

Minnie the Minx has been a character in which comic since the 1950s?

-I think it's The Dandy.

-BUZZER

Oh, interesting - buzz from CJ.

-From The Beano, isn't she?

-Yes.

In the world of children's comics, a painful error.

It's time to take on the Egghead.

So what now, CJ? What's your thinking?

Let's try...British history.

I think it was Farmer George, CJ.

Farmer George, CJ?

The correct answer is Farmer George.

Second time you've got it right on the Hot Spot, Chris. Well done.

-You can return with your lives intact.

-Thank you.

Well, you're making fairly heavy weather of that £600.

LAUGHTER

You are up to £600.

And look at this, only one life gone between you.

Pat, your question.

Mauricio Pochettino was appointed the manager

of which football club in January 2013?

Erm...Juventus.

It's Southampton. But CJ didn't buzz you,

so you're not going onto the Hot Spot.

Tom, next question to you.

Who was the mother of both Richard the Lionheart and King John?

That's a very good question.

Erm...I'm just going to say a random name. Eleanor of Aquitaine.

That's not very fair really, is it?

The random name is correct.

-How did you do that?

-APPLAUSE

-I have no idea, really.

-That's amazing!

Eleanor of Aquitaine is the right answer.

Mike, back to you.

The Time Warp is a song from which musical?

The Time Warp's from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Correct answer. Well done. The Rocky Horror Show.

You're now on £1,000.

Rachel, in which year

did Dick Fosbury famously win an Olympic gold medal in the high jump?

1936.

BUZZER

-1936?

-I think it was 1968.

Yes, I'm afraid CJ is right there, 1968.

So please go to the Hot Spot and take on the Egghead.

CJ, what are you looking at here?

I'm thinking...a bit of nature for you, Rachel.

I don't think it's going to be an amphibian,

cos that's a little bit too obvious.

I would suggest it might be a fish.

HE SIGHS

The correct answer's bird.

Rachel, I'm sorry, you've got it wrong.

Please return to your fellow players now.

So you're on £1,000.

Rachel, you have to lose a life, I'm afraid.

Chris, here's your question.

Who plays the role of the villainous Aldrich Killian

in the 2013 film Iron Man 3?

Val Kilmer.

BUZZER

-Val Kilmer is the answer?

-Guy Pearce is the answer.

Guy Pearce is the right answer. So CJ's got it right.

It's getting to be a habit, this.

Go to the Hot Spot, please, and take on the Egghead.

Well, you've done very well on the Hot Spot so far.

And this puts you in an awkward spot, CJ -

-what do you do to get one of this man's lives off him?

-Chris.

Good question.

1993? Hm.

I think we'll go for reach the South Pole, CJ.

The answer's climb Everest.

Ah, it had to happen, Chris, at some point.

-Please return to your fellow players.

-Thank you.

So we're showing some signs of wear and tear

on the battlefield here, players.

Chris, you lose a life. You're down to one.

Rachel and Mike are also down to one.

And £1,000 amassed between you so far.

Pat, your question.

Dakar is the capital of which Asian country?

Laos.

BUZZER

-Laos?

-Bangladesh.

CJ is right. You're going to have to defend your lives on the Hot Spot.

It is time to take on the Egghead, Pat.

-CJ, what are you thinking?

-Let's try...acronyms.

Pat.

-It could be any of them, couldn't it, Pat?

-It could.

I don't think it's Special.

-I think I'll go for Scientific.

-CJ?

Scientific.

Pat, well done. Well done, indeed.

You've preserved both your lives. Please return to your fellow players.

-How about that? Both lives intact.

-Very pleased.

-Very pleased.

Tom, here's your question.

In 1883, Semper Fidelis, meaning "always faithful",

was officially adopted as the motto of which branch of the USA's armed services?

I'm going to go for the...navy.

-BUZZER

-The navy? CJ has buzzed here.

I really don't know this, I'll try the Marines.

Yes, I can accept that. US Marine Corps is the answer I've got.

So now, finally, CJ has winkled you out of your place.

You'll have to face him on the Hot Spot.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

Tom.

I do think it's the gall bladder or the kidney.

Erm...I am going to go for

the pancreas.

Right, so pancreas is the answer.

The answer is pancreas.

Well done. You're managing to fight off CJ on the Hot Spot, team,

which is very, very good.

Do go back and rejoin your fellow players, Tom.

In this game, it seems that you are trudging your way.

You can't get past the £1,000,

but you're preserving your lives very, very well.

So, Mike, here's your question.

Which literary character has a landlady called Mrs Hudson?

-Is that Sherlock Holmes?

-Sherlock Holmes is correct.

Finally we've passed 1,000. £1,200.

Rachel -

what is the official non-English language of Pakistan?

Urdu?

Urdu is the right answer.

You go to £1,400.

Chris, which rock singer

is the father of the British model Daisy Lowe?

Uh...Mick Jagger?

LAUGHTER

-No idea!

-No, it's the guy who sings with Bush, Gavin Rossdale.

-Oh.

-So your life is safe for now.

Pat, your question.

Wines known as claret are typically produced

in the area surrounding which French city,

the capital of the Gironde department?

That's Bordeaux.

Bordeaux is the right answer, Pat, well done.

£200 more. 1,600 you're on.

Tom, which singer was born on December 12, 1915,

in the city of Hoboken in New Jersey?

I'm going to go for Frank Sinatra.

Frank Sinatra is correct.

You're up to £1,800. Mike, back with you.

Which woman is the star of the TV cookery show

The Little Paris Kitchen?

HE SIGHS

Nigella Lawson?

BUZZER

-You don't think it's Nigella?

-I've got absolutely no idea.

Blind guess, it's Sophie Grigson.

Sophie Grigson, it's not. Nigella Lawson, it's not.

It's Rachel Khoo.

Rachel, which Oscar-nominated actor

made his film debut in the 1981 film Endless Love?

Richard Gere?

The answer is Tom Cruise.

-But again, no buzz from CJ.

-Not heard of it.

No money, but you don't face him on the hot spot.

Chris, Ursus maritimus

is the scientific name of which animal?

Is it the...seal?

BUZZER

-Seal?

-Polar bear.

Polar bear. CJ is right. Chris, you have to go to the Hot Spot.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

I feel we should just left you up there the whole game,

-you've spent so much time up there.

-Nice up here!

Let's try British geography. Chris.

-Well...

-What do you think?

-I'm thinking of Mungo or Andrew,

they sound sort of Scottish names.

Let's go for Andrew.

CJ...you could really annoy him here.

-The correct answer is St Giles.

-Oh.

St Giles is the correct answer.

Unfortunately, Chris, that was your last life.

Thanks for playing, but you are out of the game and out of the money.

The Egghead has had his revenge.

-Well, you did it at the last.

-Finally!

Four times up there, that's quite remarkable,

give him some credit for that.

All right - Pat, still with two lives.

Which fictional character has been played on screen

by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine?

Indiana Jones.

BUZZER

-Go on, CJ.

-Jack Ryan.

Jack Ryan is the correct answer.

So CJ has got you onto the Hot Spot, Pat, I'm afraid, again.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

CJ, again, somebody proving rather tenacious here.

-What you thinking?

-We're going to go for...famous history, I think.

Pat.

Any memories? Anything coming back to you?

I don't think it was...11 or 13.

I'll go for 15.

The answer's 17.

Pat, that's not good, but you are still in the game.

Please return to your fellow players.

It's not the end of the world,

but you do now lose a life, Pat.

The team is on 1,800.

Tom, here's your question.

Which European country is known as The Land of 1,000 Lakes?

Hm...I would go for Switzerland.

BUZZER

Switzerland?

It's not big enough to have 1,000 lakes.

I have heard of this and I can't remember. Hungary?

-No, Finland.

-Oh!

Tom, you emerge unscathed from that question

cos he didn't know it either.

Mike, over to you. £1,800, we are on.

-Let's see if...

-ENDOFROUND BUZZER

Ah, we can't any further because the bell has gone.

The four of you have stayed in.

That was the last question

and you survived to play in the final.

You've built up a prize pot

of £1,800

and you now have a chance to take that home.

There is just one problem - you have to beat the Egghead.

So there is £1,800 up for grabs and four of you left.

Now, if you can prove yourselves better than CJ,

you will 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 becomes your target to beat.

-Are you ready, CJ?

-I'll give it a go.

-OK.

CJ, you're going first.

Your first question -

who was king of England at the start of the 100 Years War in 1337?

Edward III.

Edward III is correct.

Second question.

The Red River flows through which Asian capital city?

Thailand. Bangkok.

Both are wrong. It's Hanoi.

You've got one answer right out of two. Next question.

Who released Low in 1977, the first album of his Berlin Trilogy?

I haven't heard of this at all. Erm...

Oh, hold on, didn't David Bowie release Berlin albums?

He was always doing mad things like releasing trilogies, wasn't he?

I'll guess at David Bowie.

David Bowie is the right answer.

It would've been so painful if you'd got that wrong.

LAUGHTER

Two out of three. Next question.

Which plant provides the raw material for linen?

Flax.

Flax is correct. Three out of four. Next question.

Which former US president wrote the 2010 book Decision Points?

Presumably one that was alive in 2010, which narrows the list down.

Strange, I haven't heard of the book. Erm...

I will try George W Bush.

George W Bush is correct. Four out of five.

Copra is the name of the dried white kernels of what?

Coconuts.

Coconut is right.

Five out of six. He's not bad, is he?

OK, your next question.

Roquefort cheese is made from the milk of which animal?

Don't take this the wrong way, but ewe.

We can accept that. Sheep, ewe.

Yes. Six out of seven.

What is the title character's first name in the film Citizen Kane?

Er!

Oh...Charles.

Charles is correct. Charles Foster Kane.

Seven out of eight. Next question.

Cio-Cio San is a character in which Opera?

Sounds obviously Japanese,

which leads you to one fairly obvious answer.

The Mikado.

How interesting, I thought you were going elsewhere -

Madame Butterfly.

So you have seven out of nine.

Left them a little bit of daylight, there. And your last question, CJ.

Who married Clementine Hozier on 12 September, 1908?

Winston Churchill.

Winston Churchill is correct. Eight out of ten.

So, CJ, you have managed to set a target of eight.

Mike, Rachel, Pat and Tom, you have your target.

And you can now work together as a team to beat it.

You have five lives remaining,

they're lit up in front of you.

Give me an incorrect answer and you lose a life.

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

you win the £1,800.

Simple as that. Shall we play?

-ALL:

-Yes!

Which recent Martin Scorsese film starring Leonardo DiCaprio

is based on a book by the former stockbroker Jordan Belfort?

The Wolf Of Wall Street.

The Wolf Of Wall Street.

The Wolf Of Wall Street is correct.

So, one to you. Next question.

In the poem by Edward Lear,

how much did the owl and the pussycat pay for their ring?

-Any ideas?

-SHE MUTTERS

Owl and the pussycat went to sea

in a beautiful, pea-green boat

And took some honey and plenty of money...

Now I'm stuck!

A shilling? Shilling rhymes with ring.

If it's a poem, that could work.

-Yes. Shall we go for that?

-Go for it.

-Yeah.

We're going to go for a shilling.

-One shilling is your answer?

-Yeah.

I'm trying to work how you got to that.

You were saying the owl the pussycat went to sea...

-I only know the first half!

-..in a beautiful pea green...

-ALL:

-They took their honey and plenty of money

wrapped up in a £5 note.

-But you didn't go for the £5?

-No.

You went for one shilling.

And one shilling is the correct answer.

-ALL:

-Yes!

-An amazing bit of quiz play, there.

-Good work.

Two out of two. Nice work.

In 1999, who became the inaugural holder of the post

of First Minister of Scotland?

-What's that name?

-Was it Donald Dewar?

I thought it was Donald Dewar.

-It's not the guy who's there now, is it?

-No.

Donald Dewar had a heart attack or something.

Is it Donald Dewar?

-Donald Dewar is correct. You've got three.

-Well done, Tom.

Playing for £1,800 and playing really well.

Ben Nicholson was the husband

of which famous sculptress between 1938

and 1951?

-The lady in Leeds.

-INDISTINCT

No, no, she's in Cornwall.

The lady in Leeds, the garden.

It said Yorkshire. I can't remember her name.

I know she's still around, whereas I think she's not around...

-I'm not sure.

-We've got nothing else.

-We've got nothing else.

-So you want to go for Barbara Hepworth?

-Hm.

-Yeah? Yeah.

-I'm not convinced.

-Barbara Hepworth.

-Think that's right?

-What I would have gone for.

Barbara Hepworth is correct.

Well done. Thank God!

Thank God we didn't go for Leeds.

Playing really well. Four out of four.

Which country borders Colombia, Brazil,

Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile?

I'd say Argentina, but I don't know.

-Yeah, I think it is.

-Yeah?

I think Argentina, the size of the country.

I think it is Argentina.

We'll go Argentina.

Argentina is wrong. Peru.

That's your first wrong answer, so you lose a life.

You're down to four.

Sepulchrave and Dr Prunesquallor

are characters created by which writer?

Is it Terry Pratchett?

It sounds like Terry Pratchett kind of stuff, doesn't it?

-Yeah.

-Terry Pratchett?

-Yeah, I think that sounds sensible.

-They do sound like him.

We're going to go for Terry Pratchett.

I see exactly why you did that.

It's wrong, it's Mervyn Peake.

-Oh.

-Characters from his Gormenghast trilogy.

You lose another life.

-You're playing for £1,800.

-Come on! Five more!

Here's your next question.

Which famous foreign newspaper has been nicknamed

The Grey Lady?

-I'm thinking which country that would be.

-The Washington Post.

The Washington Post.

I suppose the New York Times is the most famous foreign newspaper.

-Shall we go New York Times?

-Go on, Tom, take your luck.

We're going to go for the New York Times.

-The New York Times is correct.

-ALL:

-Yes!

Well done. Next question.

Jean-Philippe Smet,

often called "the biggest rock star you've never heard of",

is better known by which stage name?

"The most famous rock star you never heard of..."

Obviously a singer that's changed his name to have a stage name.

JP...

It might be Daft Punk, that's a foreign name.

-They are quite well-known.

-But there's two of them.

-Yeah.

-Jean Michel Jarre.

-Yeah, but...

-I don't know, it's a blind guess. Shall we go for him?

-Yeah, do that.

OK, we'll go Jean Michel Jarre.

Yeah, you're on the right track, you went to France

but to the wrong guy.

-Johnny Hallyday.

-ALL:

-Ah!

OK, so this is really interesting, you've lost another life.

There it goes, you're down to two lives.

Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro,

is a character in which 1976 film?

It's Taxi Driver.

-Yeah, I was going to say that.

-Taxi Driver.

Taxi Driver is quite right.

Six. What is the first name

of Ian Rankin's detective Rebus?

-Is it John?

-I thought it was John.

-John Rebus?

-That's stuck in my head anyway. Shall we go for it?

-Yeah.

We're going for John.

You're playing very well. John Rebus, it is.

-Yes!

-So you are up to seven. Your one away from CJ's score

You've got to get past eight.

£1,800 to win. Two lives left.

Your next question -

which Alaskan peak is the highest mountain

-in North America?

-Denali.

-Denali?

-Denali.

-Yeah?

OK...Denali.

Denali is correct.

-Well done.

-Or Mount McKinley. The same place.

So you have drawn level with CJ.

To take home the £1,800, you have to get one more right.

You have got two lives left.

Here's your question.

William Henry Fox Talbot

was an early pioneer in which art from?

THEY SIGH

CHATTER

I really don't know the name.

He wasn't in photography, was he?

Oh, I like the sound of that.

-I like that idea.

-Yeah.

Sounds like that kind of time period.

Yes.

I like moments of inspiration. Let's go with the gut.

We've got this far

-on moments of inspiration!

-Exactly.

We're going to say photography.

If you are correct,

you've won £1,800.

If you're wrong, you'll lose a life

and then you're teetering on the brink.

William Henry Fox Talbot was an early pioneer...

in photography.

Well done, indeed! Fantastic play!

Well done, guys.

Really assured play, there. Some tricky questions you got right.

Well, CJ, your thoughts? Let's gloat a bit here.

I was impressed by some of those answers.

I mean, you can't argue with correct answers, can you?

Well, well done, you've beaten CJ's target.

You take home the jackpot of £1,800. Brilliant quizzing.

Do 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.