Christopher Hughes
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- This article is about the British quiz champion. For other uses, see Christopher Hughes (disambiguation).
Christopher Hughes, more commonly recognised as "Still International Mastermind Champion", is one of Britain's leading quizzers. Hughes has been a winner of Mastermind, 1983, International Mastermind, and is the current Brain of Britain, having won the competition in 2005.
He was a contestant on Weakest Link where he did not answer any question incorrectly. However he did not reach the final round as his fellow contestants voted him off in order to avoid facing him in the final. While Weakest Link's host, Anne Robinson, usually farewells contestants with a heartless "You are the weakest link - Goodbye!" she instead commented that he was the strongest link they had ever had and farewelled him with a much more sincere "Goodbye Chris".
He can currently be seen on the BBC Two quiz show Eggheads, hosted by Dermot Murnaghan on which quiz teams from around Britain compete against a team of professional quizzers (including Hughes, Judith Keppel, CJ De Mooi, Daphne Fowler and Kevin Ashman). Hughes is particularly good with questions involving trains and railways, particularly the British networks: his specialist subject for Mastermind was British Steam locomotives, 1929–1963. Sports questions are usually Hughes' only problem area as he takes little interest in any form of professional sport, describing football as "opium for the masses".
Hughes has worked as an underground train driver for London Transport and a station master and driver for British Railways.
On the show, one of Hughes' trademarks is to not only answer the question, but to also give the viewers the entire history on what ever subject the question is about.
