Episode 9 Revenge of the Egghead

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 James. I'm a financial analyst from Manchester.

I'm Amanda. I work with people with disabilities and I'm from Barnet.

I'm Paul, an executive club manager from North London.

I'm Ann. I'm an emergency surgery coordinator from Dorset.

I'm Dave. I'm a community pharmacist from Dundee.

Well, welcome to you all and good luck.

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

you will need to outsmart this man over here.

CJ de Mooi, how are you today?

-Raring to go.

-Confident? You're always confident, aren't you?

When I walked into the studio, there was a little whiff of nervousness.

How quickly a whiff becomes a stench.

JEREMY LAUGHS

You've been, as always, revising on something.

What is it this time?

As with any quizzer, you need to know all the political leaders,

-so I've been learning their middle names.

-So David Cameron is what?

-William Donald.

-OK. Obama?

Famously Hussein.

Barack Hussein. Yes, now you mention it, I knew that.

What about Putin? What's his middle name?

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. It's not very imaginative.

No, I was going to say! Somebody gave up trying there.

All right. Good luck to you.

I won't wish him luck because he usually doesn't need it.

Here's how it works.

None of you have met each other before today

but you'll be building up a prize fund together now

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 hits his red buzzer and once the red light flashes,

he has the chance to ask you

one of his own specially devised questions,

questions he's written himself and they are beastly.

If you get that wrong,

you will lose one of the lives that are lit up in front of you.

Lose two lives and 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, James, you go first. Here's your question.

In which decade of the 20th century

did Michael Jackson release the album Thriller?

The 1980s.

1980s is quite right.

Well done. £200.

Over to you, Amanda.

Ramses The Great was king of which ancient civilisation?

Egypt.

Egypt is correct. Another £200.

Up to 400. How about that?

Couldn't be easier. He's not even in the game yet.

Paul, which footballer has sons called Kai and Klay?

Wayne Rooney?

Wayne Rooney is correct.

£200 more. 600.

OK, here we go, Ann. Your question.

What was the Amoco Cadiz which made news headlines in 1978?

A shipwreck.

Yes, I will accept that.

It was an oil tanker that ran aground off Brittany.

£800, you're on. Dave,

which actor's last film was 1967's A Countess From Hong Kong?

Sophia Loren.

-BUZZER

-Sophia Loren. CJ's buzzed.

Sophia Loren is not an actor, she's an actress.

I really don't know this. No idea.

But you were buzzing with such conviction...

I was hoping something would occur to me.

Charlie Chaplin is the answer, not Sophia Loren.

I think we can refer to women as actors.

-"Actor" doesn't necessarily mean it's a man.

-OK.

Dave, you didn't add any money to the pot with your incorrect answer

but CJ has failed to give us the correct one

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

-Great.

-OK, James.

£800, you're on.

Galloping Home was the signature tune

to which classic children's TV series?

Black Beauty.

Black Beauty is correct.

You're up to £1,000. Playing very well.

No lives lost. Hardly a crease yet.

Even Dave's wrong answer didn't cost you,

not that much. Amanda, which star sign

has a name that comes from the Latin word meaning water bearer?

Aquarius.

Aquarius is correct. You're up to £1,200.

Paul, Believe Acoustic is a 2013 album by which Canadian singer?

Celine Dion?

BUZZER

Celine Dion?

I'll guess that it's a new one by Michael Buble.

No, it's Justin Bieber,

so there's some honour in not having heard of it!

LAUGHTER

Justin Bieber was the answer

but he didn't get it right so he's failed to bring you to the Hot Spot.

I imagine, having gone round one and a half times, he's getting a bit frustrated.

And you can only be frustrated with yourself, CJ. Ann, here's your question.

Atlantic City is a famous resort in which US state?

Nevada?

BUZZER

-Nevada?

-New Jersey.

CJ says New Jersey and he is correct.

It is not Nevada, although there's a lot of gambling goes on there.

Ann, you got it wrong.

CJ has caught you out which means you will 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 as well.

These questions are particularly difficult because CJ has written them himself.

It is time to face the Egghead.

What are you thinking, CJ? Finally got your Hot Spot moment.

It's about time, isn't it? Ann...

What do you think? Have you had a Dog's Nose cocktail?

I don't like gin at all. I'm going to go...

-..for rum.

-CJ?

The correct answer is...

beer.

Beer. You're going to lose a life, Ann.

Please return to your fellow players.

All right. Not to worry. Storming play up to this point

but you have now lost a life

so I take a light off you. £1,200 you're on.

Dave, your turn.

Which British darts player is known as the Crafty Cockney?

Eric Bristow.

Eric Bristow is correct.

£200 in the pot. Up to 1,400. James,

in which decade was UK television series Doctor Who first broadcast?

The 1950s.

-BUZZER

-1950s?

23rd November 1963. '60s.

-That's the same week as JFK was killed.

-The day after.

The day after. CJ is correct, it was the '60s.

Your decades didn't let you down with Michael Jackson

but they have now, James.

You're going to have to go on the Hot Spot and face the Egghead.

James...

Another classic Dickensian name there

but not one that I'm too familiar with

so I'm going to say he was...

a barber.

OK. What do you think, CJ? Is he right?

It's barber.

Well done to you, James. Nice work.

You've still got your two lives. Please return to your fellow players.

Well, you've only lost one life between you so far.

Playing rather well. Lives keep you solid

in the final round, very important.

£1,400 you're on.

I sense CJ getting a bit hot under the collar here. OK, Amanda.

Your question. Chonmage is a traditional haircut for men in which country?

China?

China is the wrong answer but CJ didn't buzz.

Japan is the answer.

So you earned no money

but he's not called you out. Paul, your question.

You're on £1,400, players.

Skyscraper was a UK number one single for which talent show winner in December 2013?

Skyscraper? I don't really watch talent shows.

Michael Potts?

BUZZER

Michael Potts?

Firstly, it's Paul Potts, but this was Sam Bailey.

-Yes, it was Sam Bailey. Was that The X Factor?

-Apparently one of those things.

How do you know that if you don't even watch it?

Because it reached number one and I know my number one lists.

See, learning lists every day.

Sam Bailey is the correct answer.

Paul, you got it wrong.

He challenged you successfully

so you are now going to have to go to the Hot Spot

and take on the Egghead.

What are you looking for here, CJ?

A deputy club manager, so he could be quite well-rounded.

-Let's try a bit of geography for you, Paul.

-OK.

Well, they're all down the east coast of Spain, really, aren't they?

Pretty much one after the other.

It's not a part of the world I've ever been to.

-I'm going to plump for Costa Del Sol.

-Costa Del Sol.

Here's hoping, Paul.

It's the Costa Del Sol.

Well done, Paul. Please return to your fellow players.

Well, now, this is interesting,

because he's just not winkling you out.

He's only got one life off you since the start of the game,

and that's going to spell trouble for you, isn't it?

If it was to remain like that, it would do.

So, £1,400 in the pot so far. Ann, you have the next question.

The wildebeest is also known by which three-letter name?

-Gnu.

-Gnu is correct. £1,600.

Do you live on the edge of a deer park?

-I do.

-Did that help?

-They don't have any gnus!

OK, over to you, Dave.

Which playwright wrote the Seagull and Uncle Vanya?

Chekhov. Anton Chekhov.

Anton Chekhov is the right answer. Well done, Dave.

£200 more to you. £1,800. Nearly 2,000, now!

James, which song written by Peter Dodds McCormick

is the national anthem of Australia?

Waltzing Matilda.

-BUZZER

-Waltzing Matilda is your answer.

Don't laugh!

Erm... I can't remember if it's three words or just two.

I think I'm going to miss out a word here.

I think there's a word before it, but it's something else, but...

Australia Fair.

Yeah, you're not quite there -

Advance Australia Fair.

Very close, CJ, but I can't give it to you. Well done, James.

You're not on the Hot Spot again.

But you didn't make any money with that answer because it was wrong.

OK, Amanda, who was the last English monarch to win the throne

on the battlefield?

-Henry V.

-BUZZER

-Henry V.

-Henry VII.

Henry VII is the correct answer. He's successfully buzzed.

I thought it was Richard III who was the...

He was the last one to DIE on the battlefield?

He died on the battlefield, Henry VII came after him.

Oh, I see. OK.

There we are, that's me told.

Amanda, it is time to go to the Hot Spot, and face the Egghead.

So when you're not working, what do you enjoy doing?

-I am a keen baker.

-Baking. OK. Which questions, CJ?

Not food and drink, I'm guessing.

So, it's American sport for you, Amanda.

I hope my baking question didn't get you into trouble there, I'm sorry.

I don't think it's Dallas.

I think that's the Dallas Cowboys.

Chicago.

You think it's the Chicago Giants.

CJ, is she right or has she lost a life.

It's San Francisco.

Amanda, I'm afraid you're wrong.

Please return to your fellow players.

Amanda, you lose a life.

But you're still in there, and there's £1,800 in the pot.

Paul, let's see if you can get to 2,000. Here is your question.

Of what is acrophobia a fear?

It is acro, A-C-R-O.

A-C-R-O.

Acrophobia...erm...

A fear of, erm...sand.

BUZZER

Sand. CJ?

Don't know. Heights?

Heights is the correct answer. How did you do that?

Something in the back.

So, he's got it right.

"Something in the back."

And you've got it wrong, and it's going to be the Hot Spot.

You have to take on the Egghead.

Now pick something a little bit easier here.

Oh, I'm sorry, Paul!

I've been giving you tricky questions - terribly sorry.

OK, let's go for a little quiz chestnut.

One that EVERYBODY knows.

-Do you know, I read this somewhere.

-You should get it right, then.

It was a long time ago.

I'm going to plump for three.

I'm thinking it can't be one,

because it wouldn't be a quiz chestnut.

Unless that's the most tricky set of options you've ever given.

So, three. Is it three?

It's three.

JEREMY LAUGHS

You've survived for a second time.

And you're actually annoying him a bit now, well done, Paul.

So, Paul, you survived the Hot Spot for a second time,

but you are a little stuck on £1,800.

Let's even get to 2,000.

Ann, on one life.

What is the longest river in Scotland?

-The Dee.

-BUZZER

-The Dee is your answer.

-The Tay.

-Tay is the correct answer. Dave's smiling. You'd have got that?

-Yes.

CJ's got it right. Ann, you've got it wrong.

I'm sorry, it's time once again to take on the Egghead.

What does it feel like up there?

Horrible!

-I'm sorry.

-You keep winding him up just before I come on.

No, I always say be polite, be nice, and it never works!

You have only got one life left, so please get this right -

we don't want to lose you.

All right, Ann.

To give you something to think about on the ride home.

I'm trying to work out how long the World Cup's been going.

Germany.

Your answer is Germany. If it's wrong, you'll be out of the contest.

I hope it is not wrong. CJ?

The correct answer is...

-Italy.

-Oh!

Ann, I am sorry, another wrong answer

and unfortunately that was your last life.

Thanks for playing.

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

The Egghead has had his revenge.

It's always painful when there's a space there, suddenly.

And knowing CJ takes some satisfaction from it, as well, doesn't help.

But, still - £1,800.

Something about the 2,000 mark is jinxing us a bit.

Let's see if we can get it to 2,000.

Four of you left. Dave, you have two lives.

The actress Karen Johnson who won an Oscar in 1991

is better known by which name?

Goldie Hawn.

-BUZZER

-CJ?

Is that the real name of Cher?

No, it's... I thought you would know this - Whoopi Goldberg.

-Oh! Of course.

-Oscar in 1991.

-Ghost, yes.

-You got away with it there.

You got it wrong, he got it wrong, as well.

You get no money but he doesn't call you out.

James, you have the next question. How are you feeling over there?

Good. Feeling lucky.

The House of Orange Nassau is the royal family of which country?

-The Netherlands.

-BUZZER

The Netherlands is correct.

Come on. Tell us what you were going to say, so we can all laugh.

I was going to say it was something like the Netherlands Antilles.

You would have been wrong anyway.

So you get an extra £100. You get 200 plus another 100,

because you are right and he was wrong. How about that!

Yes, it is the Netherlands, James. Well done. £2,100.

£300 for that one answer.

OK, Amanda, I know you are on one life.

-Yes.

-Let's forge on through here, just ignore him, don't look at him.

Jo-Wilfried Songhai is a famous name in which sport?

Tennis.

Tennis is correct. There we go.

Wasn't that bad! 2,300.

Paul, which war memorial in London's Whitehall

takes its name from the Greek words meaning empty tomb?

-The Unknown Soldier.

-BUZZER

The Unknown Soldier. CJ?

Cenotaph.

-I knew it.

-Cenotaph. Down the middle there.

You have to once again go to the Hot Spot.

It is time to take on the Egghead.

-How many's it been now?

-It's the third?

Third, and you've still got two lives,

so whatever you're doing, CJ, it's not working against Paul.

OK. Let's try to get one of your lives. British history.

Ooh, well, TV started in this country in 1936.

But, of course, that doesn't mean the licence fee started immediately.

And TV really kicked in in 1953 with the coronation.

I don't know, so I'm going to go for the 1950s.

1950s. I like your logic there.

And I guess the war decade maybe wouldn't have been...

Too much going on. Maybe. I don't know. CJ?

It was the 1940s.

Ah. The 1940s is the answer.

So you did get that one wrong, Paul.

Please return to your fellow players.

Paul, I have to take away one of your lives. You still have one left.

Dave, you've got two. Amanda on one.

James still on two, playing a good game there.

So between you - six lives, four players, £2,300 in the pot.

Not bad at all. The klaxon could go at any time.

CJ looking worried! Yes, he does.

He really does look worried. Which is good.

That's how we want it at this stage.

OK, Dave, I'll rattle on.

Don't want us to be interrupted.

Cicatrix is the medical name for what type of skin blemish?

And that is spelt C-I-C-A-T-R-I-X.

I should know this one.

You're a pharmacist.

-Freckle.

-A freckle.

No, the answer is scar.

Cicatrix is scar, but CJ did not know.

I knew it wasn't freckle, but I had no idea, to be honest.

Dave, you got off the hook there.

I don't know what you're doing, but it is working. It's working.

Two lives left. James, also... Ah!

KLAXON

The klaxon has gone, so that was the last question.

Four of you have survived to play in the final.

You have built up a prize pot of £2,300

and now you have a chance to take that money home.

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

So there is £2,300 up for grabs and four of you left.

If you can prove yourselves better than CJ, you will win the money.

But he'll do everything he can to stop you.

I'll ask CJ ten general knowledge questions.

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

Are you ready, CJ?

I'm annoyed, certainly.

It's a perfect moment for us to start playing then. Ten questions.

Here's your first.

Who plays Jean Valjean in the 2012 film Les Miserables?

-Hugh Jackman.

-Hugh Jackman is correct, one out of one.

Which British political party

celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2000?

-Labour.

-Labour is correct. Two out of two.

Which Hairy Biker appeared in Strictly Come Dancing in 2013?

No idea. I think one of the Hairy Bikers is called Dave

and that's as much as I know.

-Any of you know?

-Dave Myers.

-Dave Myers.

Amanda has got it. You got it wrong, CJ. You've got two out of three.

Next question.

In Internet terminology, what does the abbreviation FTP stand for?

Don't know that one, I haven't come across that.

I know quite a few of these, but that one seems to have passed me by.

I'm assuming it's just as acronym for some sort of text speak. Um...

No idea. For The People.

Miles off. File Transfer Protocol.

Two out of four.

The Missouri Foxtrotter is a breed of which type of animal?

No idea.

Cow.

CJ, it's a horse.

You've got two out of five.

Triton is a moon of which planet?

Was that Trit-on?

Triton. T-R-I-T-O-N.

Well, Saturn is Titan.

So it's either Jupiter or Neptune.

Neptune would be the logical answer.

-I don't know, I'll try Neptune.

-Neptune is correct.

Three out of six. Next question.

In Greek mythology, which architect and inventor

is said to have built the labyrinth for King Minos?

-Daedalus.

-Daedalus is right. Four out of seven.

Southwold is a seaside town in which English county?

I've got no idea. Dorset.

-Anyone know Southwold?

-Suffolk.

-Suffolk it is.

English geography is almost beyond a joke, isn't it?

Four out of eight. Oh, you are struggling here.

In December 2007, which American boxer became the first man

to defeat Ricky Hatton in his professional career?

-Manny Pacquiano?

-Do you mean Manny Pacquiao by any chance?

But it's not him anyway.

-Floyd Mayweather Jr.

-He was my first thought, I thought he was too heavy.

You've got four out of nine.

-Which is awful.

-Last question.

What is the surname of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry?

-Callahan.

-Callahan is right.

I thought you were going to say O'Callahan.

And it was going to be horrible...

OK, you've got half of them right - five out of ten.

-Do you think that's enough to win?

-It certainly shouldn't be.

CJ is annoyed with himself, now you need to make him annoyed with you.

James, Amanda, Paul and Dave, you have your target now.

You can work together as a team to beat it.

You have six lives remaining.

Give me a wrong answer and you will lose a life.

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

you win the £2,300.

So let's play.

The Korova Milk Bar appears in which controversial novel

published in 1962?

-A Clockwork Orange.

-That's what I would say.

A Clockwork Orange.

A Clockwork Orange is the right answer.

What is the home town of the Simpsons?

Springfield.

-Springfield.

-Springfield is correct, you've got two right.

CJ got five, you've got to go past five.

You've got six lives remaining.

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" is a quotation from which Shakespeare play?

I'm pretty sure it's one of the Histories.

-I was thinking Henry. What do you think?

-No, I just don't know.

Henry IV.

Henry IV is not the answer. It's Julius Caesar.

You lose a life.

You're down to five. But still a handsome number of lives.

Teams have started with fewer lives than that and taken the money.

He got five, which helps you as well. You're on two.

You've got to overhaul him.

What type of animal is a pipistrelle?

It's a bat. It's a bat.

Bat is correct. Well done. You are on three, just three more to go.

Five lives remaining. £2,300 in the pot.

Which fruit is depicted on the top of the Wimbledon men's singles champions cup?

-A pineapple.

-A pineapple.

-You are playing well, pineapple is right.

You are on four. You just need two more right answers for £2,300.

Traditional Russian valenki are worn on which part of the body?

-Would that be the...?

-I'm thinking it's my head.

I don't know, the only thing I think about traditional Russian is a hat.

-Feet.

-Feet comes to my head as well.

-Shall we go for feet?

-It sounds plural.

-Yes, that's right.

Feet?

Feet is right. You've had six questions, you've got five right.

And you are now level with CJ.

One more correct answer and you've won the prize money.

You still have five lives left as well.

What is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States?

If you get this right, you've got the money.

-Harvard?

-Harvard comes into my head, or Princeton?

-Shall we go with Harvard?

-I think it's Harvard.

-You think it's Harvard.

-I don't know.

-Do you have an inkling?

-Yale came into my mind when I heard it.

We should go for the one that all of us think, I guess.

Harvard.

If you've got it wrong, you'll lose a life but we play on.

If you've got it right, you've won the money.

And the question was what is the oldest institution of higher education in the USA?

And the answer is Harvard.

-Yes!

-Yay!

Well done. You made light work of your Egghead over here.

CJ, you are looking crushed.

I look crushed for my own performance.

Five is absolutely miserable.

Well done to you, and very assured in the final.

Assured all the way through -

even the very first time we went down the line, you scored well.

You've beaten CJ's target, you take home the jackpot of £2,300.

-I hope that feels good.

-It does.

-Brilliant quizzing.

So, let's get him into a recuperative situation somewhere.

Get your nerve back.

Do join us then, when CJ will be doing his best

to restore his battered pride

and crush another five contestants on Revenge Of The Egghead.

Goodbye.