Is your brain Scrambled or fried? (Egg Heads)

Member Name: melvinium

Product:	Egg Heads
Date:	06/10/08 (260 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good quiz show at tea time

Disadvantages: C.J de Mooi and Jeremy Vine are pretty annoying

EggHeads.

This popular quiz show, at the time of writing is found on BBC2 on a weeknight at 6. We started watching it because it is on around teatime, and the Simpsons has been repeated so many times, we thought we would try for something a little more intellectual.

Eggheads is currently in its sixth series, and features a "formidable" quiz team made up of possibly the best quiz team in the country.
The Eggheads:
Kevin Ashman: winner of British Quiz Championship, European Quiz Championship, World Quizzing Championships, Fifteen to One, Mastermind, Brain of Britain and Mind Sports Olympiad.

C. J. de Mooi: winner of BrainTeaser, 100% and The Weakest Link as well as having been Mensa chess champion and apparently, and (I find) unbelievably a model.

Daphne Fowler: winner of Fifteen to One, Brain of Britain and Going for Gold.

Chris Hughes: winner of Mastermind, International Mastermind and Brain of Britain.

Judith Keppel: first British winner of one million pounds on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

A new team faces the eggheads every day, with 4 head-to-head rounds where the challenging team chooses who plays in which round from their own team, and then chooses the egghead to face them. The types of rounds include Politics, Geography, Sport, Entertainment, TV & Film and Art & Literature. Three multiple choice questions are asked to each player in turn, and whoever wins their head-to-head makes it through to the final round. In the event of a tie break, it goes to sudden death where questions are asked with no multiple choice answers.

The final round sees the winners of the head to heads against each other, with the same format, three multiple choice questions then going to sudden deathy in the result of a tie break.

The quiz is good fun, with the questions similar to that of a pub quiz, so the general public has a chance in getting a fair few right, making you feel brainy.

The show has been presented by Dermot Murnahan, up until the current series, where Jeremy Vine has started co hosting. Tonight was the first episode I have watched with Jeremy presenting, and I wasnt overly impressed. He seemed to have no ideas of his own and everything was done exactly the same as if it was Dermot, but in a more boring way. He seemed to speak in monotone, which made the whole episode quite annoying, and in my view ruined it.

Slightly more annoying than Jeremy Vine though is C.J. de Mooi. I seem to get annoyed with him every single show. You know at school there was always one annoying git who thought they knew everything? They would sit in class with a smug face always answering the question, and not with just the answer, but with ten paragraphs about the history of the question as well as the answer which most people think is right, but is actually wrong because of blah blah blah before finally getting round to the answer. Yes, that is C.J. de Mooi. However not only is he really annoying, but he actually more often than not ends up losing his head to head and doesnt make it to the final.

So other than C.J. and Jeremy Vine, the show is pretty good, and passes the time whilst you are eating your tea and also helps boost your general knowledge.

Summary: How well can you score against the formidable egg heads?