Episode 8 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 Nick and I'm an account manager from Halifax.

I'm Alison. I'm a retired police officer from Odiham in Hampshire.

I'm Brian. I'm a petrol service attendant and I'm from Wigan.

I'm Sharon. I'm an executive assistant from south London.

I'm Andy, a retired management trainer from Weybridge in Surrey.

So, welcome and good luck to you all.

Now, as you know, to win any money today you need to outsmart CJ De Mooi.

CJ, are you revising anything at the moment?

One of my weaknesses, if you can call it such,

is the scientific names of animals.

So I've been looking at whales. Learning the Latin names of whales.

The Latin names of whales.

-So if I said killer whale, you'd know that?

-It's Orcinus orca.

Because I thought it was Killer whalicus.

Yes, that's why you're over there and I'm over here.

What about the narwhal? To pick an obscure one.

That's a fairly obvious when you hear the name,

it's Monodon monoceros as in one horn.

Probably exhausted all of our interest in this subject by now.

OK, let's get started.

Contestants, none of you know each other, is that correct?

Just met 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, very careful players,

because if CJ knows your answer is wrong, he can stop play like this -

BUZZER

..and once he's caught you out, he then has the chance to ask you

a particularly difficult question that he has written himself.

If you get it wrong, you will lose one of those two lives

that you have on the front of the desk.

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

At the end of the game, whoever survives,

will have a shot at sharing the prize money.

Happy with that? So let's play.

Nick, on the on end of the desk, we start with you.

The ostrich is native to which continent?

-Africa.

-Africa is right.

Well done, that's £200 in the bank.

Alison, in which park did the great exhibition of 1851 take place?

Hyde Park.

Hyde Park is the right answer. £400.

Brian, in 1831 Charles Darwin began a five-year expedition

aboard which vessel?

-The Beagle.

-HMS Beagle is right. £600.

Playing well, team!

OK, Sharon, the WACA is a test cricket ground in which city?

Brisbane?

Brisbane is your answer...

It is...incorrect.

But...CJ did didn't know that,

you didn't use the red button there.

So you don't get £200, but you are not called onto the hotspot,

because CJ didn't know either. The answer is Perth.

-Andy, would you have got that?

-I would have got that, yes.

-Cricket lover?

-Erm...a little bit.

That's a shame, because your question is about the larynx.

What is the name of the small flap of cartilage

that closes off the larynx during swallowing?

The oesophagus?

-BUZZER

-The oesophagus.

-Epiglottis.

-Epiglottis is correct.

CJ's corrected you, Andy.

So, you're going to have to go to the hotspot

and might potentially lose one of your lives

if you get his specially written question wrong.

It is time to take the Egghead.

What are you thinking here, CJ? How are you choosing your question?

These are particularly difficult today.

I sat up all night with my cauldron thinking of something really nasty.

So, Andy...

I've heard of gouache, and I think it's a form of cake icing.

Do you cook a lot, Andy?

I do do a little bit of baking.

-Done any goache?

-I haven't personally used gouache.

I think I might've seen it on the Bake Off.

Whatever you do, don't make that recipe. The correct answer is paint.

Please return to your fellow players.

I have to take one of your lives away.

Players, you have £600 in total.

We go back to you, Nick.

The main function of haemoglobin in human blood is to transport

which element from the respiratory organs to the body tissues?

-Oxygen.

-Oxygen is correct.

£800. Alison, your question.

Bill Sykes appears in which Charles Dickens novel?

Oliver Twist.

Oliver Twist is correct.

That is another 200.

So you have gone to 1,000.

Brian, which country won tennis's Davis Cup in 2012 and 2013?

Czechoslovakia.

BUZZER

No such country.

Right. You've buzzed him.

-No such country.

-It's absurd.

It's either the Czech Republic or Croatia, but I think it's Croatia.

You WOULD make this difficult - because you're wrong on that.

-It's the Czech Republic.

-Oh, dear!

So, no money, but you're also not on the hotspot.

And you've the satisfaction of knowing you were closer than him.

OK, Sharon. Which US jazz singer born in 1917,

was known as the First Lady of Song?

Billie Holiday.

The answer is, Ella Fitzgerald.

But the CJ, again, didn't buzz you.

-Thought it might be, but didn't know it.

-Andy, back to you.

Mark Selby is one of the few players to have been world number one

in which sport?

Golf.

BUZZER

-Well, I know him personally, which helps.

-Right.

He is one of the few players because

there've been massive periods of dominance in snooker.

I see. So we've had, say, Steve Davis for ten years.

Ray Reardon, Steve Davis, and Stephen Hendry dominated.

I see. Well, the answer is snooker. Sorry, Andy.

You have again been corrected by CJ. It is time to take on the Egghead.

So, Andy...

I am going to struggle on this one,

CJ, but let's go for...

..the third answer, Fauvism.

The correct answer is...

Expressionism.

-Oh, dear.

-Oh, dear.

So, another wrong answer and that was your last life, Andy.

So, we have to say thanks for playing -

you are out the game and out of the money.

The Egghead has had his revenge.

Thank you very much.

That was all a bit rapid.

And you have all got your lives left.

OK, we lost Andy, we can't look over our shoulders in this game.

£1,000 in the pot,

Nick, your question.

Which body in our solar system is most likely to generate

a coronal mass ejection?

That will be the sun.

The sun it is. £1,200 in the pot.

Alison, David Healy, who retired in 2013,

is which national football team's all-time leading goal-scorer?

I'll say Wales.

-Wales is your answer.

-BUZZER

CJ has buzzed.

I have absolutely no idea about this, I'm going to guess USA.

Both wrong. It is in fact Northern Ireland.

But he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about, so you're fine.

You haven't lost a life, you just didn't get any money. £1,200.

Brian, your question.

The rivers Nene and the Great Ouse drain into which large shallow bay?

The Wash.

The Wash is the right answer. £1,400. Sharon, your question.

In 2013, who was named IWAF male world athlete of the year,

for a fifth time?

Usain Bolt.

Usain Bolt is the right answer. £1,600.

You're playing pretty well.

You've all got your lives. Nick, your question.

Off The Wall was a 1979 album by which American singer?

-Michael Jackson.

-Michael Jackson is right.

£1,800 in the bank.

Alison, what unit of astronomical distance

has a length of approximately 5.88 trillion miles?

A light year.

A light year is correct.

You've gone to £2,000. Really good!

Brian, your question.

Which controversial figure does Benedict Cumberbatch play

in the 2030 film The Fifth Estate?

-Sherlock Holmes.

-BUZZER

Sherlock Holmes is your answer?

Biggest film flop worldwide of the year. He plays Julian Assange.

It was Julian Assange.

Got that wrong. Time to take on the Egghead.

All right, Brian. Let's try you with this.

Edmond Rostand.

-Complete stab in the dark, or...

-Stab in the dark.

OK. OK, that can work.

That was your stab in the dark,

I feel like I want to return the favour.

The correct answer is Edmund Rostand.

Well done, Brian. Something charmed about these players today, I think!

You have survived with your lives intact.

Do return to your fellow players.

Sharon, with £2,000 in the bank, here is your question.

Which lyricist who died in 2012,

had a long-running musical partnership with Burt Bacharach?

Hal David.

Hal David is correct.

2,200. Playing well.

Nick, in the Thomas the Tank Engine stories,

how is Sir Topham Hatt best-known?

Would he be the Fat Controller?

The Fat Controller is quite right. £2,400.

-Alison, you laughed, you knew that one?

-Yes!

Which shipping forecast region was renamed Fitzroy in 2002?

-Dogger Bight.

-BUZZER

Dogger Bight.

-CJ?

-I do know this, I'll guess, and just go for Dogger.

No, it's not Dogger. You're let off the hook again!

Finisterre is the answer. Used to be, now it's Fitzroy.

No money to put in the bank, Alison, but he doesn't call you to the hotspot.

Back with you, Brian. £2,400.

The schoolboys Jack, Simon and Piggy are characters in which 1954 novel?

Lord Of The Flies.

You've got it right, Brian. Lord Of The Flies. You're on £2,600.

A very handy sum. Sharon, your question.

Quezon City is the former capital of which country?

-Ecuador.

-BUZZER

-Ecuador is your answer.

-Philippines?

CJ has got it right, Sharon.

It is the Philippines.

You're quite good on South American places, aren't you?

Except Philippines isn't in South America.

OK. He even corrects ME!

Luckily, it's not me that has to go to the hotspot. Sharon, you do.

Please take on the Egghead.

NATO.

-You went straight to NATO?

-Yes.

Because?

Because it was the answer I thought was right.

I actually don't know.

Correct answer is the Arab league.

Well, that's a stinker, CJ, because I asked you why

because the logic is the end of the second War,

so it's got to be NATO, for goodness' sake.

That's exactly why I put it in.

But the UN was formed in '45, as well,

and people get the UN and NATO mixed up.

NATO was formed in 1949.

-That's really wretched of you, CJ.

-Welcome to my world!

I am very sorry, please return to your fellow players, and we'll play on.

OK, we take your life away from the front desk,

and we're back with you, Nick. £2,600 in the bank.

Who played Bruce Banner and the Hulk in the film Avengers Assemble?

Was that Eric Bana?

-Who is it?

-Mark Guffalo.

Mark "Guffalo."

HE LAUGHS

-I can't accept that answer.

-I don't know why I said that.

Cos you've been reading The Gruffalo.

It's not Bana, it's not The Gruffalo, it's Ruffalo.

Don't go to the Hot Spot.

Back with you, Alison. £2,600 but we're running out of time.

Of what is petrology the study?

Stones.

Rocks, strictly, strictly, strictly, but I can accept stones.

Rocks, stones, petrology. All right. Over to you, Brian.

2,800. Can you get it to 3,000?

Who composed the score for the film A Fistful Of Dollars?

Come on, Brian, get it to £3,000.

I'll go for Burt Bacharach, I know it's wrong.

Burt Bacharach.

Enrico Morricone.

-It is ENNIO Morricone.

-Oh.

Enrico it's not.

Brian, you're saved there from the hot spot cos CJ corrected you

but was wrong himself. So, Sharon, it's up to you.

Can you get it to £3,000 before the clock goes?

Studley Royal Park in North Yorkshire

features the ruins of which renowned Cistercian monastery?

Whitby Abbey.

Whitby Abbey is the wrong answer.

It's Fountains Abbey but you're struggling as well.

Couldn't remember what it's called.

You survived. Nick, on to you.

Which ancient Greek mathematician is said to have made a famous discovery

after getting into a bath

and watching the level of the water rise?

Archimedes.

Archimedes is correct, Nick, well done. £3,000. How's this?

We're doing really well. Come on, Alison, your question.

On a weather map, isobars are lines connecting points of equal what?

Pressure.

Pressure is right. 3,200.

Brian, Jamie Foxx won a Best Actor Academy Award for playing

which musician in a 2004 film?

Dizzy Gillespie.

-Ray Charles.

-CJ is right, Brian.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

Brian...

Mark Webber.

You sound like you know that.

I'm 99% sure.

The correct answer is, reluctantly, Mark Webber.

Well done, Brian, you've been on the hot spot twice

and survived both times. You can return to your fellow players.

So, £3,200. You've built up quite a sum of cash there.

Between the four of you you've got seven lives left and we play on.

Sharon, your question.

In a right-angled triangle, what is the term for the side

opposite the right-angle, ie the longest side?

The hypotenuse.

Quite right. 3,400.

Nick, over to you...

Ah, we're run out of time for our questions.

OK, well done to you four for staying in.

That was the last question.

The four of you have survived to play in the Final.

You've built up a really impressive prize pot of £3,400.

You've now got the chance to take the money home.

There's just one problem and it's sitting over there.

You have to Beat The Egghead.

So, this is really interesting.

There's £3,400 up for grabs and there's four of you left.

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 scores will be your target,

and you have to beat the target.

Are you ready, CJ?

Here we go with your first question.

Psychology Of The Unconscious is a book by which Swiss psychoanalyst.

Sigmund Freud.

No, it's Carl Jung.

Which English city was founded by the Romans as Aquae Sulis?

Bath.

Bath is correct, that's one out of two.

What was the first name of Baden-Powell,

the founder of the Boy Scouts?

Not Lord! Erm...

A name has come to mind but I can't get it to fit,

whether it's right or wrong.

Oh, no, hold on, it's...

Robert?

Robert is correct.

Not quite sure how he does that.

OK, you've got two out of three.

By what moniker was the character Jaime Sommers known,

in the title of a mid-70s TV show?

She was the Bionic Woman.

Three out of four. I was so in love with her when I was nine.

Baffin Island, the fifth largest in the world, is part of which country?

Canada.

Canada is correct. Four out of five.

Who was riding the Queen Mother's horse,

Devon Loch, in the 1956 Grand National when it collapsed?

Dick Francis.

Dick Francis is correct, five out of six. You're playing well.

But then you always do.

Teddy Tamgho from France

is a leading competitor in which athletics event?

There was...

I think, at the...

Was it the World Championships in Moscow back in 2013?

A very...

..exuberant long jumper from France. I wonder if that's the chap.

Not sure about this but I'll try long jump.

-You are very close but I can't give it to you. It's triple jump.

-Oh!

Yes, of course, Jonathan Edwards was commentating at the time.

We've got to look really upset for CJ here.

Really sorry, CJ.

Five out of seven. Feeling your pain.

Whom did Lionel Jospin succeed as French Prime Minister in 1997?

Oh, dear, who did he come after?

Can't remember if he was before or after Chirac.

Jacques Chirac.

No, Alain Juppe.

Five out of eight.

Amalthea is one of the moons of which planet?

Spell it, please.

A-M-A-L-T-H-E-A.

I haven't heard of it.

But it sounds like a name.

And all the moons of Uranus are named after Shakespearian

or literary characters.

I haven't heard of it. I'll guess at Uranus.

It's Jupiter.

CJ, you were going like the clappers and then a wheel came off.

Your last question. Got five out of nine so far.

Which US President, the country's seventh, was known as "Old Hickory"?

Erm...Andrew Jackson.

All right, you rescued it at the end there,

Andrew Jackson is correct, so you got six out of ten, CJ.

No, no.

But how costly will those four wrong answers be, I wonder?

OK, Nick, Alison, Brian, Sharon, you've got your target.

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

You've got seven lives remaining,

which is quite a handsome number of lives in this game.

But give me an incorrect answer and I will have to take a life away.

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

he wins the game. If you can beat his target, you win £3,400.

Let's play.

Lake Chapala is which country's largest lake?

How do you spell it?

C-H-A-P-A-L-A.

-I've honestly never heard of it.

-Do you think it's European?

Well, Chapala sounds more sort of Swiss or something, to me.

-It sounds African.

-Yeah...

-Go with, go with...

Let's go for Kenya?

-Whatever.

-That would be Lake Nairobi.

You're right, it would. Nigeria?

-I'm guessing.

-Ghana?

-Mozambique?

-Ghana?

A French-speaking one.

Mozambique...that's Portuguese.

Does Ghana speak French?

Chapala, it's French, isn't it?

-Ghana.

-Ghana.

We'll try Ghana.

It's not Ghana. It's Mexico.

-Way off!

-Wrong continent.

So, you lose a live. £3,400 you're playing for.

The Mary Rose, which sank in Portsmouth Harbour in 1545

was the flagship of which Monarch?

ALL: Henry VIII?

Henry VIII.

Henry VIII is the right answer.

You have a point, heading towards CJ's six points.

You've got to go passed him.

£3,400.

Which theatre director has been married to Janet Suzman

and Imogen Stubbs?

Go with Trevor Nunn?

-Yeah, try that.

-Are there any other theatre directors we can think of?

I can't think... They're too old, the ones I'm thinking of.

Yeah, go for it.

Is it Trevor Nunn? Trevor Nunn.

Trevor Nunn is the right answer.

-Who got that? Sharon?

-Sharon.

Topsy Ojo has represented England in which sport?

Could you spell that?

T-O-P-S-Y and then O-J-O. Two words.

Think he's a Rugby International.

-No idea.

-Rugby Union International.

Yeah. Go on, then.

Rugby Union.

Rugby Union is the right answer.

-Hey, CJ. Playing well.

-That's a good answer.

You only need seven to win the money. You've got six lives left.

Who succeeded John Bruton as Irish Prime Minister in 1997?

-Bertie Ahern.

-Mary Robinson?

-Was it not Mary Robinson?

-Yes, go with Mary Robinson.

-Mary Robinson.

-What did you say, Sharon?

-Bertie Ahern.

You would have been right.

You were overruled too easily there.

You lose a life. You go down to five lives.

CJ had six, you've got three, you need to get seven.

£3,400 we're playing for.

The 22-year-old Norwegian Magnus Carlsen

became a World Champion in which field in 2013?

Maybe a Nordic sport? Skiing or...?

-Skiing?

-I've absolutely no idea.

Dan Husky?

What, Speedway as in car racing?

As in motorbikes.

Oh, motorbikes...

They start young, don't they?

Yeah, Speedway. I'm being informed.

-Speedway?

-Yes.

-Let's see if CJ knows this.

Oh, close - it's chess.

Chess is the answer.

You lose a life.

You went for a sport and I suppose there are things other than sports

that you be World Champion in. £3,400 you're playing for.

Your next question.

Which Italian educator, born in 1870,

developed a system of teaching through play?

-Montessori?

-Has to be.

Montessori?

I need a first name and surname with your answer.

Giuseppe. It's a guess.

Giuseppe.

-Was it not...? Was it female?

-No...

Don't think so.

-I thought it was female.

-Oh, do you? Goodness. I don't know.

I don't know.

-An Italian, female name?

-What's an Italian female name?

Antonia?

Go for it.

Antonia Montessori?

Antonia Montessori is your answer.

No, it's Maria Montessori.

You're down to three lives.

You have to get seven.

Ron Swanson, played by Nick Offerman,

is a character in which US sitcom?

-No idea.

-Can you think of any US sitcoms?

-Friends.

-Cheers.

-Not Cheers.

-Frasier.

-Friends.

-Family Guy.

-Friends.

-Not Friends.

Family Guy's a cartoon, isn't it? So...

-Sorry?

-Family Guy's a cartoon, so it's not...

-Cheers.

-Try The Office. No, not Cheers. Not Frasier.

-Frasier?

-Not Frasier.

-Seinfeld?

It's a programme I haven't seen cos I've never heard of it.

-Curb Your Enthusiasm?

-Could be Seinfeld.

Could be Curb Your Enthusiasm. What shall we go for?

Your educated guesses have been better than ours.

Go for whatever you think.

The Office.

Yeah, I might have guessed that but it's wrong.

The answer is Parks And Recreation.

Never heard of it.

I have to take a life away. You're down to two lives.

Who was deputy leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992?

-Is that when Kinnock...?

-Kinnock was the leader.

I'm going to be in so much trouble for not knowing this.

Wasn't Denis Healey or anybody like that, was it?

-Woman.

-Margaret Beckett?

-Margaret Beckett.

-Yeah?

-Go for Margaret Beckett.

Margaret Beckett.

-No, it was Roy Hattersley.

-Oh.

-During the Kinnock years.

You're right about Kinnock, those are his years

and Hattersley was his number two, so you're down to one life now.

You can't afford to get another one wrong.

Respiratory organs known as "book gills"

are unique to what species of crab?

I can't even think of another species of crab.

No-one can think of...

Cos that's inside a shell, isn't it?

-Changes shell, doesn't it?

-Go for that, then.

A hermit crab?

-Do you know this?

-Is it a horseshoe crab?

He's got it right.

-Horseshoe crab is the right answer.

-It began with a "H".

It did begin with a "H." If only I could give it to you for that.

But I'm afraid I have to take your last life away.

You've come some way short of CJ's total, which means,

reluctantly, I have to say, CJ, well done, you have won the game.

You were in a fantastic position there.

With a lot of lives and a lot of money.

Can we work out what went wrong?

-The questions!

-THEY LAUGH

Well, we're sorry to see you go with no money. You came very close.

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

another five contestants on Revenge Of The Egghead. Goodbye.