Are You an Egghead? Eight: Pete Dixon v. Barry Simmons: Barry Simmons, a former "Mastermind" and "Brain of Britain" contestant, defeated Pete Dixon, who has appeared on "The Weakest Link" and "Fifteen to One". Barry, who has also played for the England quiz team, won four head-to-head rounds to Pete's one. Pete made one mistake in the last round and lost 5–3. Match Nine: Val Edmondson v. Pat Gibson: Pat Gibson, a winner on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", "Mastermind" and "Brain of Britain", came through his first round match with experienced quizzer Val Edmondson, who appeared on quiz shows "Top of the
Egghead is more general. May have originated in ref. to the high forehead of Mr. Stevenson or of the pop. image of an academician" (p. 171). Philip K. Dick claimed in a 1977 interview that, while researching his Nazi-themed novel "The Man in the High Castle", he discovered that an equivalent term ("Eierkopf") had been used by the Sturmabteilung because "when they attacked people who were defenseless, [...] their skulls cracked readily against the pavement". Egghead In the U.S. English slang, egghead is an anti-elitist epithet used to refer to intellectuals or people considered too out-of-touch with ordinary people and too