Episode 6 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 Tony, I'm a broadcast journalist from County Antrim.

I'm Chris, I'm a recruitment consultant from Twickenham.

I'm Janet, I'm a business analyst from Bristol.

I'm Tom, I'm a retired bank official and I live in Dumfries.

I'm Richard, I'm a PR account director and I live in Cheshire.

Well, 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. How are you today, CJ?

Very well, thank you, Jeremy. Erm... Had a good rest,

had a good little study overnight, so raring to go!

-And what's the subject now?

-Well, one of those staples of quizzers is,

of course, the Olympic Games,

so I've been looking up the official mascots of the Olympic Games.

So, if you go, for example, Montreal '76 what would that be?

That was, being the national animal of Canada,

Amik the beaver.

OK, so move on four years, Moscow 1980...?

That's one of the most famous ones, that's Misha the bear cub.

OK... That's what he spends his life doing.

What do you make of the line-up here?

I think this game, just like Janet, will be short and sweet!

-SHE LAUGHS

-OK, don't let that put you off, we'll get started.

Contestants, here's how it works, none of you know each other,

you haven't met before today, have you?

But you'll 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

He hits the red button.

And once he has stopped play and caught you out,

he has the chance to ask you a particularly difficult question

that he has written himself.

Get it wrong and you will lose one of the two lives

that are lit up on the desk in front of you.

If you lose them both you're out of the game.

Whoever survives to the end of the game will then have a shot

at sharing the prize money.

Shall we begin...?

Tony, here's your question -

in 2010, the singer Katy Perry married which British comedian?

Russell Brand.

Is the right answer.

Next question, Chris,

who plays the role of JM Barrie in the 2004 film

Finding Neverland?

Tom Hanks.

BUZZER

-CJ's buzzed.

-Johnny Depp.

CJ is correct.

Well, I'm sorry, Chris, 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, these are particularly tricky,

cos CJ has written them himself.

It is time to face the Egghead.

CJ, what are you thinking of?

I'm thinking, considering his performance so far,

it doesn't matter what I ask Chris!

OK, don't be put off by that, Chris.

I'm always apologising for my embarrassing friend.

Chris...

-Anything on Houdini, Chris?

-Houdini, Harry Houdini...

Definitely know it's not Vienna.

Definitely know it's not Budapest.

I'm going to go with Prague.

So you've gone Eastern Europe, is he right?

It's Budapest.

Ah! Houdini was born in Budapest.

That's an expensive wrong answer, Chris, you're going to lose a life,

please return to your fellow players.

You were in the right neighbourhood.

Can you give him that, at least, CJ?

Well, he's on the right continent,

but then again all the answers were, so, no!

LAUGHTER

It wasn't Prague and there's no way of escaping the fact

that you lose a life.

OK, £200 in the pot.

Got nothing from that question, I'm afraid.

Janet, your question...

what is the surname of the artist

whose forenames were Joseph Mallord William?

-Turner.

-It was indeed JMW Turner.

Good answer - £200.

We're up to £400.

Tom, your question -

which nursery rhyme character runs through the town in his nightgown?

Wee Willie Winkie.

Wee Willie Winkie is correct.

£600.

So, Richard, here's your question - to increase the pot to 800.

Which type of eagle became the national symbol of the United States

in 1782?

The Bald Eagle.

Is correct.

£800.

-OK, Tony, don't look nervous.

-No.

"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"

is a line from which 1942 film?

That's Casablanca.

Casablanca is correct.

Up to £1,000.

-OK, Chris, now we don't want to get this one wrong, do we?!

-No.

Cos CJ's champing at the bit to get somebody out.

Which archipelago

off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland

has a name which translates as Land Of Fire?

Terra Firma.

-BUZZER

-Terra Firma...?

Tierra del Fuego.

Yes, he's right, I'm afraid it is Tierra del Fuego not Terra Firma.

You've just not had the rub of the green,

but you're going to have to face one of CJ's specially written questions.

Now, it is time to take on the Egghead.

So, you've only got one life left.

It's very important to stay on in there.

-Definitely.

-Let's have my favourite subject - US history for you, Chris.

I'm thinking I'm going to rule out John Pershing.

Douglas MacArthur was quite...

Was more to do with the Communists, I believe.

I'm going to go with Dwight Eisenhower.

Dwight Eisenhower is your answer, now, you've lost a life already.

Let's hope you've go this right, if you've got it wrong,

you will be out of the game, Chris.

Fingers crossed for you. CJ?

The right answer's Douglas MacArthur.

Ah.

Another wrong answer from you, Chris,

and unfortunately that was your last life

-so we have to say thanks for playing.

-Thank you.

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

The Egghead has had his revenge.

-TONY SIGHS

-Well, big sigh from Tony there.

You seem like a very nice guy.

-He was a good guy.

-Yeah, good guy.

Now there's a big gap there.

Well, four of you left

means there's more money to share at the end

but fewer brains in the final.

We're on £1,000.

Janet, in England the date of St George's Day

typically falls under which star sign?

-Taurus.

-Taurus is right!

You must know your star signs, I wouldn't have a clue.

-I'm a Taurus.

-Well, I'm a Taurus too, it didn't help me.

-LAUGHTER

-It doesn't help me!

Don't even say it!

He's always teasing me about my lack of knowledge.

£200 in the pot. Well done.

Janet, you're playing really well. £1,200.

OK, Tom, you got Wee Willie Winkie last time,

let's see what you've got this time.

Which Roman emperor was succeeded by his uncle Claudius in 41AD?

Caligula.

BUZZER

CJ has buzzed!

-Is it Nero?

-No, CJ, you're wrong and, Tom, you're right.

Caligula it is.

So, I don't just give you 200 for that answer,

I put in an extra £100 as well cos you caught him out...

It's going well...

Richard, in which year did Daley Thompson

win his first Olympic gold medal?

I think it was 19...82.

-BUZZER

-1982, CJ's buzzed.

Well, there are no Olympics in 1982, so I think it was Moscow 1980.

What was the mascot in Moscow 1980?

I've just told you! It was Misha the bear cub, it hasn't changed!

LAUGHTER

1980 is the right answer, Richard.

I'm sorry, you now risk losing one of your lives.

It is time to face the Egghead.

So, we know how it works now cos we saw it happen with Chris.

Your first time on the Hot Spot, your lives are in the balance

and CJ is now rootling through his various questions,

but what are you looking for?

So many people who claim to be quizzers

have a problem with history,

so I love writing history questions

because, I'll be honest, when I started out at the top level

it was the subject I feared the most.

And now it's my favourite.

OK, I hope you're good at history, Richard,

-cos I bet this is a stinker.

-Richard...

Bit of a tricky one but...erm...

I would say...

that it's the World Bank.

Go on, CJ.

It's the World Bank.

Well done to you, Richard. Superb answer.

You've come away with both your lives intact.

Please return to your fellow players.

So, team, you're on £1,500. You've got a handy number of lives!

They've got eight lives left here, CJ!

You're stumbling and bumbling, aren't you?

Tony, with £1,500 in the pot here's your question -

which actor, born in 1931,

provided the voice of Darth Vader in the original 1977 film Star Wars?

That would be James Earl Jones.

Is correct. Brilliant...

Janet, which European explorer

discovered the Hawaiian islands in 1778?

-Cook.

-I need the full name.

Thomas Cook.

BUZZER

CJ LAUGHS He wishes...!

Thomas Cook.

James Cook!

-Sorry, it's easily done.

-Yeah.

-The holiday company.

And just ignore his laughter, Captain James Cook is the answer,

so CJ was right and, strictly speaking, you weren't.

Please take on the Egghead.

Janet...

It's not a word I've heard of.

But, I guess, poisons are toxins.

I've not heard it in connection with archery or watches,

so I'll say poisons.

That's got to be the obvious way to go.

It's got to be right, CJ.

It's archery.

Please return to your fellow players, Janet.

Janet, you lose a life.

You're no £1,700, though, doing pretty well. Quite a few lives left.

Lost a player. Tom, your question...

In heraldry what colour is gules?

That's G-U-L-E-S.

Yellow.

-Yellow is your answer and the answer is red.

-It is red...

Ahh!

-I was doubting myself?!

-You're getting away with murder here, Tom!

So, gules is red but he got it wrong too.

You won't have to face him on the Hot Spot.

You've avoided the Hot Spot, so far.

I have.

Richard, Baku is the capital city of which country?

I think it's Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan is the right answer.

Well done. Tony, you're looking a bit lonely on the end there.

Feeling a bit lonely. JEREMY CHUCKLES

Here's your question - in musical notation

which single note is the equivalent length of two crotchets?

Two crotchets...

Minim.

BUZZER

You don't need to shake your head till we're sure CJ's got it right.

-CJ?

-Quaver.

-Quaver.

-The answer is minim.

-No!

Yes! So you get 200, plus another 100

for being smarter than him.

CJ's misfiring here!

Janet, which 2013 film remake

based on a Stephen King novel

-starred Chloe Grace Moretz in the title role?

-Carrie.

Carrie is quite right.

Well done.

Tom, let's see if you can continue this thing,

where you get it wrong and he gets it wrong too.

Frogs and toads belong to which class of animals?

Amphibians.

Amphibians is correct, you're storming along here.

Richard, on which Greek island was a huge Colossus statue,

one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

Crete.

-BUZZER

-Crete...

-Colossus of Rhodes.

Rhodes is the right answer,

CJ has got it right and you've got it wrong,

so you have to face one of his specially written questions.

Do go to the Hot Spot and take on the Egghead.

So, Richard, your second time, but you survived the first time. CJ...

Richard...

Again, it's a tricky question.

Erm, I'd have to narrow it down

by remembering which works of art each one has done,

and I will actually go with...

William Hogarth.

William Hogarth is your answer. Are they all British artists?

They are.

The correct answer is William Hogarth.

You've done it again, Richard.

Very well done.

Please return to your fellow players.

I like the idea that he was doing it

by thinking of the works that the others have done -

can you name me one work by Joshua Reynolds?

-I'd like to, but it might be another question you've got there.

-OK.

-LAUGHTER

-He's got an answer for everything, CJ!

And, by the way,

CJ, they've still got seven lives left and four players.

And at this point they're going to be in a very strong position

in the final, so don't take any lip from him.

Back to you, Tony.

L Ron Hubbard founded which international movement in the 1950s?

That would be scientology.

Scientology is correct. I don't think you've got one wrong yet.

-Well done.

-Lucky.

Janet, the cake Sachertorte,

was first created in which city?

It's Vienna.

Vienna is correct. £3,000.

The klaxon could go at any time, you're quizzing brilliantly.

Next one for you, Tom.

I Feel Pretty and Maria are songs from which musical?

West Side Story.

West Side story is correct.

Richard, Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton

were two of the founders of which comedy group?

I know this... I need it to come to me.

League Of Gentlemen.

League Of Gentlemen is correct.

This is quite a handsome jackpot.

OK, Tony, back to you.

The Mona Lisa is believed to have been painted in which century?

I will say the 16th.

16th is quite right. 1500s.

Klaxon can't be far away.

Janet, which jazz singer born in 1917

was known as the First Lady of Song?

Ella Fitzgerald.

Ella Fitzgerald is the right answer.

Let's press on. Tom, he's not getting a look in.

What word beginning with the letter F

is a maritime term for wreckage or cargo

that remains afloat after a ship has sunk?

Flotsam.

Flotsam is correct.

Richard, your question -

the currency known as the euro is divided into 100 what?

Cents.

Cents is correct.

Tony, the headquarters of Essex County Cricket Club

are in which city?

Cricket's not my strong point.

I'll say...Colchester.

Colchester is your answer.

It is Chelmsford. But, CJ, you didn't buzz. Your one moment!

I would have guessed at Colchester as well.

OK, well, there we are, no money,

but also no Hot Spot for you.

We're on 4,200. Playing really, really well. Janet.

Which fashion designer opened the first branch of her boutique Bazaar

on the Kings Road in London in the mid-1950s?

Mary Quant.

Mary Quant is quite right.

Tom, which minister resigned in 1988

after her comments about salmonella in eggs?

That was Edwina Currie.

Edwina Currie is the right answer.

Another £200.

Next question, Richard,

the Po is the longest river in which country?

P-O.

Thailand.

-BUZZER

-Finally CJ gets a look in!

-Italy!

Italy, it is. Yes, you're right. The Po is the longest river in Italy,

so you are going to have to face CJ on the Hot Spot

although you've faced him down twice before,

but please now, once again, Richard, take on the Egghead.

Oh, he's just gagging to ask a question

that takes a life off you, Richard.

I'd quite like that, yes!

LAUGHTER

Richard...and I'd really rather you got this wrong...

Don't think it's the Lake District.

Pretty sure it's not... the Yorkshire Dales.

Erm, so between Dartmoor and South Downs...

I'd probably take out Dartmoor and say the South Downs.

South Downs is your answer, can you make it three Hot Spots in a row

without a wrong answer? It would be amazing if you did.

The correct answer...

is Dartmoor!

There we are.

I'm afraid it is a wrong answer, so you are going to lose a life,

please return to your fellow players, Richard.

So, I have to take one of those lights out.

You still have a life left.

You are on £4,600, which is great.

Over to you, Tony. Which fiction...

KLAXON

Ah! We are out of time. That was the last question.

Four of you have survived a very feisty round

to play in the final,

you've built up a substantial prize pot of £4,600.

And now you have the chance to take that money home.

There is just one problem - you've got to beat the Egghead.

So, there is £4,600 up for grabs.

And there are four of you left.

Now, 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.

I sense he's in a particularly vengeful mood today as well.

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

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

CJ, are you ready?

-HE DRAWLS:

-Yes.

You're upset about something, I can tell.

They got their questions right!

LAUGHTER

Yeah. OK, I'm going to ask CJ his questions

and then I'm going to come to you.

J, ten questions start here.

Which fictional village is the main setting

for the radio drama The Archers?

Ambridge.

Is the right answer.

One out of one.

Which French phrase meaning Black Beast

is used in English to mean a person or thing

that you particularly dislike or dread?

Bete noire.

Bete noire is correct, two out of two.

What is the lowest denomination euro banknote?

Mmm...

There's a two-euro coin, is there a two-euro note?

There's definitely a five. If there's a two coin

I don't see why there should be a two note.

Five.

Is correct. Three out of three.

Which of the Wombles shares his name with a town on the Isle of Mull?

Toblemory.

I can't give you that. It's Tobermory.

You're getting him confused with a Toblerone!

Got three out of four.

Cusco in Peru was the capital of which historic empire?

Incan.

Incan is right.

Four out of five, next question...

WSJ is an abbreviation for which daily newspaper

founded in July 1889?

Wall Street Journal.

Wall Street Journal is correct, five out of six.

Next, Michael van Gerwen is a leading name in which sport?

I've seen this name recently.

Although where I've seen it I've absolutely no idea.

It's not in any of the sports I know about.

But that's a fairly short list.

Soccer.

I should ask Richard this, you love your sport.

He's not a football player, is he?

-It's darts.

-Darts! Darts, CJ?

Oh, yes, yes.

You've got five out of seven.

Hans Gruber is the villain of which 1988 action film?

Die Hard.

Die Hard is correct.

Six out of eight. In 1968

Jacqueline Kennedy married which businessman?

Aristotle Onassis.

It was indeed Aristotle Onassis.

Seven out of nine.

Last question, CJ, which sportsman, born in 1985,

is nicknamed the Manx Missile?

Never heard that in my life.

Erm... It's not something I've ever, ever heard.

I don't know of any sportsmen born on the Isle of Man

so I'm just going to have to try and think of a sportsman...

who fits the dates.

Jenson Button.

-No, it's Mark Cavendish.

-Oh, yes.

Road cycling, and I think running as well?

He is Manx, yeah.

-Seven out of ten, CJ.

-Not very good at all.

Thumping and bumping along, not really sprint-cycling were you?

Wasn't really very good.

So, Tony, Janet, Tom and Richard,

you've got your target

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

You have six 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 the £4,600. Shall we play?

ALL: Yes.

OK, your first question,

who directed the 2013 film Captain Philips?

MUTTERING

-Go with that.

-Ron Howard.

Ron Howard is the wrong answer.

-Sorry.

-Paul Greengrass.

So, you lose a life, you go down to five lives.

Got to beat CJ's score of seven.

Next question - galvanised steel is steel which has been coated

with which other metal?

WHISPERING: Zinc.

Zinc.

Is correct.

Point to you. Which man who died in 453AD

was known as Flagellum Dei, the Scourge of God?

MUTTERING

-St Augustine?

-Might as well.

-You could try St Paul.

-What?

-St Paul?

ALL: No...

We don't know, so we'll go with St Augustine.

Ha! Sorry, I shouldn't laugh, sorry!

-Well, who do you think it was?

-I think it might be Attila the Hun.

Yeah, he's right, Attila the Hun. You lose another life.

Down to four lives.

Next question, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature?

I like my literature but...

-But I didn't keep an eye on 2013 Nobel winners.

-No.

There is the Queen's poet...

No, it wasn't Carol Ann Duffy, I think it's somebody foreign.

Gabriel Marquez?

Who's he?

He's a South American author...

-Gabriel Marquez?

-Yeah...

As you can probably tell, we're toiling a bit -

Gabriel Marquez.

Gabriel Marquez it was not, do you know this?

Alice Munro.

Alice Munro is the answer.

You've got it wrong, you lose a life. You're down to three lives.

You've got to get past seven to win the jackpot of £4,600.

Who became the owner of the football club AC Milan in 1986?

Berlusconi?

-It is Berlusconi.

-Silvio Berlusconi.

Yes, you got it right.

-ALL: Yes.

-So, two correct answers, well done.

CJ has set you the target of seven. £4,600 we're playing for.

V For Vendetta, From Hell and Watchmen are comic books

by which writer?

I've heard of them, but I don't know who wrote the comic books.

-Do you?

-No.

-The only one I know is Spider-Man.

We might as well...

Stan Lee?

-Stanley?

-Stan Lee.

-Stan Lee.

Oh, Stan Lee?

LAUGHTER

I'm thinking, "OK...just the first name, maybe that's enough?"

The name is Alan Moore.

You lose another life, I'm afraid. You've got to overhaul CJ.

What breed of dog is the largest of all the terriers

and is often nicknamed the King of the Terriers?

THEY CONFER

-Newfoundland Terrier.

-Huge dog.

-Go on, then.

Newfoundland Terrier.

No, it's not, it's Airedale.

-Yeah.

-So, you lose another life.

You have one life left.

The next wrong answer is the end of the contest.

You have to overhaul CJ, who got seven. £4,600 in the pot.

The Fabulous Rock 'N' Roll Songbook is a 2013 album by which singer?

Rod Stewart has been doing songbook albums.

I know he did the Great American Songbook.

Go with that then...

-Can anybody think of anybody else?

-Well, I can't think of anything else.

-Go for it.

-Rod Stewart.

Rod Stewart is your answer.

If you've got this one wrong the contest is over

cos you're on your last life. If you've got it right, we play on

and you've got a chance to overhaul CJ.

Right era, wrong person - it was Cliff Richard.

ALL GROAN

Well, you had yourselves set up for a win there

-and you got out of jail somehow, there.

-I was fine the whole time.

JANET LAUGHS

He was on his back feet for a while there but, I'm sorry,

you haven't made it, contestants, you've lost all your lives

and failed to beat CJ's target

and you leave with nothing

and we have to say, reluctantly, congratulations, CJ,

you've shown why you're an Egghead.

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

to crush another five contestants on Revenge Of The Egghead.

Goodbye.