Episode 7 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 us meet the five contestants

hoping to get one over on CJ today.

I'm Claire, I'm a paramedic from Brentwood.

I'm Jason, I'm a content author for the NHS website

and I'm from Southampton.

I'm Neil, I'm a computing graduate and I'm from Glasgow.

I'm Heather, I'm a housewife from Sidcup.

I'm Dave, I'm a bank manager from Essex.

So, welcome. And good luck to all of you.

Now, as you know, in order to win any money today

you will need to outsmart CJ de Mooi.

How are you feeling today?

I'm feeling very perky. I hope Pinky doesn't get jealous.

You are, I know, learning lists. And today it is what?

One of those little tedious things

that comes up time and time again - baby animals.

So, cub and so on?

Cub, calf - all of those.

They get really obscure, do they? I mean, what is spider, for example?

-That's one of the really silly ones, it's a spiderling.

-Spiderling.

-Spiderling.

-OK, let me try to use a really obscure one. Platypus.

Platypus is a puggle.

-Oyster?

-Oh, come on, you know that one.

Everyone knows that one, it's a spat.

As you can see, he's in a good mood, everyone.

Hope you're looking forward to this, let's get started.

Contestants, here's how it works.

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

-The big red buzzer goes off.

And then once he's caught you out,

he has the chance to ask you one of his particularly wicked questions

which he's written himself.

If you get it wrong

you lose one of the lives lit up in front of you

and if you lose them both you are out of the game.

Whoever survives to the end of the game

will have a shot at sharing the prize money.

All right? Sounds like fun?

Oh, yes!

Let's begin.

Claire, we start with you.

Which company made the DB5 car famously driven by James Bond?

Aston Martin.

Correct.

£200 in the bank. Great start.

OK, Jason, what is the surname

of the family with whom Paddington Bear lives?

Brown.

Correct. £400.

He hates that when you go on a streak, he can't get in.

-Two questions is hardly a streak!

-Let's think positive.

Don't let him put you off. Neil, play passes to you.

In which century

did the Mayflower famously carry the pilgrims

from England to the New World?

-Eh... 18...

-BUZZER

JEREMY LAUGHS

You can't buzz that early! He hadn't even finished the number.

-He said 18.

-He did say 18.

-And 8 is completely wrong anyway.

-What is it?

-The year was 1620, so it's the 17th century.

CJ is right. Neil, you're wrong, I'm afraid!

But don't worry, nothing very bad has happened yet,

you've still got your two lives.

However, you'll have to take on one of his questions on the Hot Spot

and risk losing a life.

It is time to face the Egghead.

So here's how it works, Neil. CJ's been up late at night

writing these dastardly questions.

He's put all the options together in a particularly unpleasant way

and he's going to try and get one of your lives off you now.

Neil, a nice easy one to get you going,

or at least get one of your lives going.

Thank you.

That is a stinker.

OK, sounds like it's a warm colour,

so I'm going to rule out green.

And blue.

And red would seem a bit obvious.

So therefore I'm going to have to go with purple.

Peridot is a warm colour and it's purple, CJ? Come on.

It's green.

Oh, dear.

Please return to your fellow players, Neil.

Neil, I have to take out one of your lives.

You are on £400.

Here is your question, Heather.

Which knighted actor stars as Alan

in the romantic comedy Last Tango In Halifax?

Derek...

I'm sorry, I can't think of his surname.

BUZZER It's Derek Jacobi.

Derek Jacobi is the right answer.

You did know that before she said Derek, didn't you?

I did, but thank you for the help anyway.

Heather, because you got it wrong and he got it right,

he can ask you one of his questions on the Hot Spot.

It is time to face the Egghead.

Heather.

I'm going to go for impressionism.

The correct answer's surrealism.

I'm sorry, Heather.

Not out yet though. Please return to your fellow players.

So, Heather, I know it's painful, we have to take your life away.

Got one left,

you've got £400.

Dave, your question.

Random Access Memories

is a 2013 album by which band?

-Blink-182.

-BUZZER

Blink-182.

Daft Punk.

Yeah, not Blink-182, it is Daft Punk, as CJ has said.

He's done a correct challenge again. He's done three in a row here,

he's going to get you to the Hot Spot.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

CJ, what are you thinking?

-A bank manager will know about lots of things.

-Yes.

Selfishness, cruelty.

We're talking about me, not you!

-JEREMY LAUGHS

-Don't make it worse.

Fine, on to the very hard questions...

Dave...

Gut feeling coming to my mind is up there -

doesn't mean it's right, of course. But I'm going to go with potato.

The correct answer...

..is potato.

Well done, well done, Dave!

-So I guess I did well.

-You did well.

He won't appreciate that, but you have done very well.

Please return to your fellow players.

So you were on the Hot Spot

and you got away with it,

you faced him down on one of his own questions. Well done.

-Thank you.

-You've got £400 amassed.

Back to you, Claire.

The country of Andorra

is located in which mountain range?

Pyrenees.

Pyrenees is correct.

Another £200. 600.

Jason, who became Secretary of State for education in 2010?

Theresa Russell.

BUZZER

-Theresa Russell.

-First of all, making up names doesn't help.

I think it might be Jeremy Gove.

No, no, wrong name.

You got confused yourself.

-Oh, so...

-It's Michael Gove, isn't it?

You looked at me and you thought of Michael Gove,

but we can't accept that. How about that, Jason?

-Free pass.

-Free pass! All right, Michael Gove it was.

I knew the answer, I just completely forgot it,

-went out of my head, so I'm sorry.

-Here we are, Jason.

No money for that, though,

you're still on 600.

Neil, your question.

The African Victoria Falls

are on which river?

The Ganges.

The Ganges?!

Different continent!

I was going to say Mississippi, but...

I'll stick with Zambezi and see where that gets me.

Yeah, Zambezi is the right answer.

Neil, you're going to be called to the Hot Spot, I'm afraid.

-Where is the Ganges, just tell us?

-India.

-India.

That's a little way away.

Don't worry, you can get out of this intact.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

So you've been a student for quite a while now.

Yes, it was close to a decade.

Frankly, I'm not surprised he was a student for ten years,

considering how many questions he's got right so far. Neil...

So you have to get this right to stay in, Neil.

You have the one life left

and CJ's trying to strip it off you.

Don't let him in any way unsettle you here.

I'm struggling here.

We're shocked(!)

I shall go for the Maltese Falcon.

Right, the Maltese Falcon to stay in the game,

the stakes are high. CJ?

It's the Maltese Falcon.

Well done to you, Neil.

Please return to your fellow players, you're still in.

Now, what is the Maltese Falcon? A statue, or what?

Yes, just a little statue from the Humphrey Bogart film.

-Did you know that or was it a guess?

-I thought it was a chocolate.

LAUGHTER

That's not going to help CJ's mood.

OK. We're on £600.

Your question, Heather.

Which actress has starred in the films Doubt,

Enchanted, The Fighter, and Man Of Steel?

Amy Adams.

Amy Adams is the right answer.

Another £200.

Up to 800.

Dave, who famously said,

"Ask not what your country can do for you,

"ask what you can do for your country" in 1961?

John F Kennedy.

John F Kennedy it was, in his inaugural address.

Another £200 - up to £1,000.

OK, Claire, back to you.

How old was Adrian Mole

in the title of his first diary?

12 ¾.

BUZZER

12 ¾.

Well, that is very precise, but is it right?

13 ¾.

13 ¾ is the answer. Well, you haven't yet

been called to the Hot Spot, you've been doing very well.

But I'm afraid it's time to take on the Egghead.

-All right, good luck here.

-Thank you.

Claire...

I haven't got a clue, if I'm honest.

-Would you like to pass, then?

-No, I'm not going to do that.

I'm going to have to have a stab in the dark I think,

because I have absolutely no idea.

So I will go for Melbourne.

Is she right?

It's Brisbane.

It's Brisbane. I'm sorry, Claire, you're going to lose a life,

please return to your fellow players.

All right, £1,000. Not doing badly.

Jason, you were so lucky last time.

Here's your question.

What is the popular name for the RAF aerobatics display team?

The Red Arrows.

Red Arrows is correct.

1,200.

Neil, which British prime minister

was born in Canada in 1858?

Get that buzzer ready.

-Erm, Edward Heath.

-BUZZER

-Was it him, CJ?

-It's Andrew Bonar Law.

It was Andrew Bonar Law,

who was the only one born outside the British Isles.

Neil, I'm sorry!

Neil, you have to go to the Hot Spot and take on the Egghead.

I'm getting used to this.

Well, listen, you did well last time, Neil,

but you have only got one life left.

If you lose it now, you'll be gone.

Been here before, haven't we, Neil?

A few times.

OK, Black Beauty was a horse.

He's good, isn't he?

Worzel Gummidge, I think, was a farmer,

so I'll go with Worzel Gummidge.

Let's hope you stay in here, Neil.

You've got one life left.

CJ, is he right or is he out?

-It's Worzel Gummidge.

-You've done it again, well done.

Please return to your fellow players.

Worzel Gummidge I think is a scarecrow, is he?

-Yes, played by Jon Pertwee.

-Well done, Neil.

You've only got one life left

but you are still very much in the game. £1,200 you're on.

Heather, Mama Morton and Amos Hart

are characters in which musical?

Chicago.

Chicago is correct, £200 more.

1,400. Dave, brontosaurus is an obsolete name

for which dinosaur?

Tyrannosaurus rex.

Tyrannosaurus rex?

Diplodocus.

Diplod... Diplo-do-cus, I never know how you pronounce it?

-I always pronounce it dip-lod-o-cus.

-Wrong anyway. Apatosaurus it is.

So, Dave, you were buzzed on there but he got it wrong as well

so you don't have to go to the Hot Spot.

However, you make no extra money.

£1,400 we're on.

Claire, we're back with you. One life left, hang on in there.

In a rainbow, which colour is between red and yellow?

Orange.

Orange is correct. £200.

Up to 1,600.

Jason, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang

is a book by which author?

-Beatrix Potter.

-BUZZER

Beatrix Potter. Why are you laughing?

It's just a lovely image, isn't it? Ian Fleming.

Well, Ian Fleming is almost more unlikely,

that the James Bond author wrote Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang -

but he did. Which means CJ's right and, Jason, you were wrong.

It's time to face the Egghead.

You've avoided this so far.

-Got a bit lucky.

-CJ.

Jason...

I don't know the answer

so I'm going to just go with...

Chilli heat.

CJ?

The correct answer is cloud cover.

Cloud cover is measured in oktas, Jason.

I'm sorry, please return to your team.

So, Jason, you lose a life.

Dave, you've still got both, everyone else down to one life.

Neil, you already look as if you're bracing for the Hot Spot!

Here is your question.

Paramaribo is the capital of which country?

HE LAUGHS Not a chance!

The Democratic...

-Democratic of?

-I was going to go with Congo.

-Congo!

Congo, capital Paramaribo?

-Suriname.

-Suriname is the right answer.

I'm afraid you've got to go to the Hot Spot again.

It is time to face the Egghead.

It's your fourth time on the Hot Spot.

Whatever you say, laugh at him, CJ, he's playing very well.

The consolation is it's only when he's here he's got a question right.

-Well, that's enough.

-Neil.

I'll go with tea.

All right. Let's just say here, before you give the answer, CJ,

if you've got this wrong, Neil, you will no longer be in the contest.

So, fingers crossed.

The answer is molasses.

Oh! I thought you were going to get that.

You survived brilliantly.

But unfortunately, that was your last life, so thank you for playing.

But you are out of the game and out of the money.

The Egghead has taken his revenge.

Four of you left. Means there's more money to share at the end

but fewer brains in the final.

OK. Heather.

Which American mathematician, born in 1928,

was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 1994

for his work in the field of game theory?

I have no idea, I'm sorry.

CJ?

There are only two, but I think this one is Milton Friedman?

Absolutely wrong. It's John Nash.

And he's the guy portrayed in A Beautiful Mind.

Beautiful Mind, isn't he?

Remember that Russell Crowe film? That was him.

So you've got it wrong, but he got it wrong as well, Heather.

So he doesn't call you out, you just don't make any money with that.

£1,600. Dave.

Room 101, the Thought Police and Big Brother all feature in which book?

-1984.

-1984 is correct.

Another 200. You're up to £1,800. Claire.

Roy Scherer Jr was the original name of which actor

who appeared in the films Giant and Magnificent Obsession?

Robert De Niro.

Robert De Niro.

Kurt Malden?

No, Rock Hudson, it was.

But you're spared because CJ got it wrong as well.

You're creaking a bit here,

after your early display of strong-headedness, CJ.

Still, it's Jason to come, so we're fine.

Jason. Which England football manager

was compared to a turnip in a newspaper headline?

Graham Taylor.

Graham Taylor is correct. You've broken through 2,000.

Four of you left. Heather.

Gravlax and lox are types of foods traditionally made

with which type of fish?

-Salmon?

-Salmon is correct.

Another 200. 2,200. Dave, your question.

Lindsey Vonn is a leading competitor in which sport?

-Javelin.

-Javelin.

-Lindsey Vonn.

-She's a downhill skier.

She is indeed a skier, so CJ is right, Dave, you're wrong.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

I really would like to get one of those lives off Dave.

-It's a complete guess. Michael Faraday.

-Faraday, CJ.

The answer is Isaac Newton.

-Ohh!

-Dave, do return to your fellow players.

I take one of your lives away. £2,200.

Not playing badly at all after a couple of bumps in the road.

Our paramedic now...

Oh, no time for the next question.

So, four of you have survived to play in the final,

you've built up a prize pot of £2,200.

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

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

So, there is £2,200 up for grabs and four of you left.

If you can prove yourselves better than CJ, you'll win that money.

But he is 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?

-Yes, Jeremy.

You're not worried by this team who've shown some resilience here?

I'd have been happy to get one more of them out,

but four lives left

-should be doable.

-OK, let's play.

Your questions come first. 10 of them. Here's the first question.

The House Of The Rising Sun was a UK number one hit single

in 1964 for which band?

The Animals.

The Animals is correct, one out of one.

Carol II, who abdicated in 1940, was king of which country?

There are two countries which use Carol quite frequently.

And that's... as it was then Czechoslovakia,

but the more likely option is Poland.

Don't know, but I'll try Poland.

It's wrong. Romania. One out of two. Next question.

Nuuk, or, as it is also known, Godthab,

is a town on which island?

-Greenland.

-Greenland is correct, two out of three.

Which actress won an Oscar for her role in the film My Cousin Vinny?

I believe her name is Marisa Tomei.

Marisa Tomei is quite right.

Three out of four. He's good, isn't he?

Which island was awarded a George Cross in April 1942

in recognition of the gallantry of its inhabitants during the war?

-Malta.

-Malta is correct, four out of five. Next question.

Which member of the Monty Python team died in 1989?

-Graham Chapman.

-Graham Chapman it was. Five out of six.

Salisbury Plain is in Hampshire and which other English county?

-Wiltshire.

-I don't how you've got that right, but you have.

So you're six out of seven.

What is the title of Beethoven's only completed opera?

Yes, he wrote it in honour of Napoleon and then actually

withdrew the dedication when he found out what Napoleon was up to.

Fidelio.

Fidelio is correct, seven out of eight.

Lucky Jim is a book by which author?

Kingsley Amis.

Kingsley Amis is correct, father of Martin. Eight out of nine.

Last question for you, CJ. What river is formed

by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates?

Couldn't be the River Jordan, could it?

Suppose it could be, it's right geographically.

Don't know this, I'll try the Jordan.

Interesting, in all your questions,

it's place names that have caused the most trouble.

Romania, Wiltshire,

and this answer is Shatt al-Arab.

Shatt al-Arab is the answer, not Jordan.

One day you're going to have to get out a map and look at it!

But you've done well all the same. You've got eight out of ten, CJ.

Claire, Jason, Heather and Dave,

you've now got your target

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

You've got four lives, if you give me a wrong answer,

I'll take one of them out.

What you've got to do is get beyond CJ's target of eight

before all your lives are gone.

If you do that, you win £2,200.

-Shall we play?

-Yes.

-Here we go.

The film The Last Emperor refers to the Emperor of which country?

-China... China.

-Is it China for definite?

-Yeah, China.

-Definitely.

-That's what I'd go for.

-China.

-China is the right answer, well done. First point to you.

Which American is credited with

the invention of the lightning conductor?

That's got to be... That's got to be, was it Benjamin Franklin?

-Didn't he do all that with electric?

-Yeah. Benjamin Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin is correct.

-Is he the one with the key on the kite and all that?

-I think he was, yeah.

Benjamin Franklin. Two points to you. You're chasing CJ's eight.

The original vinyl version of which 1970s Rolling Stones album

featured a working zipper on its cover?

-Oh.

-I haven't got a clue.

-Sticky Fingers, that's the only one.

-I'd go for your one or my one, I don't know which.

-What was yours?

-Gimme Shelter.

-What era was that?

That's what I don't know, so I'd go with your one

because I don't know the answer, I'm just guessing.

-I'm not 100%, though.

-Try that.

OK. Sticky Fingers.

Sticky Fingers is the right answer.

CHEERING

So you've got three. Hey, what about this?

You were looking so cocky there, CJ!

Three out of three now. Very solid.

The Blue Peter flag represents which letter of the alphabet

in maritime signals?

-It wouldn't be B or P, would it? Is that too simple?

-Is it too simple?

I think it might be blue in colour, so maybe it's P. I don't know.

-Because it's the Blue Peter?

-Yeah, yeah. That's a good shout.

-That's the best guess.

-P.

-You've never met before today?

-No.

You're playing very well as a team, it is P.

You're doing a very good job of playing as a team. Four out of four.

You can see he didn't expect that.

And still all your lives. Heading for £2,200.

You've got to get past CJ's total of eight.

Noah Cross, played by John Huston, is a villain in which 1974 film?

I can't even place John Huston.

It wouldn't be something like Chinatown, would it?

-Like a Polanski, kind of...?

-Mid-'70s.

Guess with Chinatown?

Chinatown.

You've got it right. Brilliant.

-Chinatown it is.

-Come on!

-Great quizzing. Five out of five.

Nevsky Prospect is the main street in which Russian city?

-I don't know.

-Absolutely no idea. The logical one is Moscow, isn't it?

-That's the logical answer.

-That's too obvious.

-Or St Petersburg?

Heather got the other ones, might as well go with her!

St Petersburg! But I don't know.

-Go with St Peter's.

-St Petersburg?

-Why not?

-St Petersburg.

St Petersburg is the right answer.

CHEERING

Don't know what you're doing, Heather, but it's working!

OK.

Still got your four lives. You have to get past eight.

Who wrote the novel Psycho,

which Alfred Hitchcock later adapted into a film?

-Is it the same person that wrote Thirty-Nine Steps?

-John Buchan?

Did he write the same book?

I went to see 39 Steps in the theatre the other day,

-and they made references to...

-Go with John Buchan, then.

-I don't know.

-You go for it.

John Buchan.

-It's not John Buchan.

-Oh, unlucky.

This was Robert Bloch.

-Wouldn't have known that.

-Sorry!

Now, at long last, you lose a life after your six points. OK.

Three lives left.

You've just got to get three more.

Which Australian prime minister went for a swim in December 1967

and was never seen again?

Oh, that was John Stone... Now, was he...?

Was he the prime minister, John Stonehouse? I don't know.

John Stonehouse.

-Two stories confused there, CJ.

-Yeah. That's a British minister.

-Harold somebody?

-Harold Holt is the name. You lose a life.

You're down to two lives.

Come on, guys, three more correct answers gets you the money.

Which comedian was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson

in the North of England in 1890?

-Stan Laurel, I would guess. Shall we try that?

-Yeah.

-Stan Laurel?

-Stanley Laurel?

-Stan Laurel is correct.

-Amazing!

-All right. Now, this is interesting.

You're on seven, CJ was on eight.

You've got to get past him to nine,

you've got to get two right answers, two lives left.

Which King of England was one of the so-called Princes In The Tower?

-Oh.

-Was it one of the Edwards?

-Edward V or VI?

It would have been Edward V, cos his dad was IV.

-Is that all right?

-Yeah. Edward V.

-Edward V?

-Is she right?

Edward V is the right answer. Well done!

Eight against eight,

and he never thought this was going to happen, did he?

Think carefully now. One more correct answer wins you £2,200.

In which film did Marlon Brando played the role of Terry Malloy?

-I don't know.

-Oh, it's... I think it's...

I think it's either On The Waterfront...

-Yeah.

-Or it could be, no, A Streetcar Named Desire,

he was Stanley, I think.

Do you know the other one for definite, then?

I don't know, I'm just going with vague knowledge somewhere.

-I haven't got a clue.

-You've done well so far.

Go for On The Waterfront, then?

Yeah, OK. On The Waterfront.

Your answer is On The Waterfront.

If you have got it wrong, you will lose a life and be down to one life,

if you've got it right, you will have pulled past CJ and won £2,200.

The correct answer is On The Waterfront.

CHEERING

-Well done, everybody!

-Amazing!

-Wow!

-Excellent!

So you got nine right out of 12. What a storming performance.

OK. Well, well done, you've taken the money,

you've beaten CJ's target, you take home a jackpot of £2,200.

I didn't think that was going to happen, that was amazing!

Brilliant quizzing.

Join us next time when CJ will be doing his best

to right the wrong he will feel was done today, restore his pride,

and crush another five contestants on Revenge Of The Egghead.

Goodbye.