Are You an Egghead? Rainford ended James Webb's run in the competition after coming from behind in the final round. James had led 2–1 in the final round before David fought back to claim a 4–3 victory. Earlier David had won 3 head-to-heads to James' 2. Match Two: Alan Morgan v. Barry Simmons: Barry Simmons despatched Alan Morgan to make the semi-finals. Barry won all five head-to-head rounds and looked as though he would complete a comfortable win when Alan made an early slip up in the final. However, Barry made a mistake on a question too thus taking the contest into sudden death.
Make Me an Egghead for each of the first three rounds won. They then compete in the fifth round, a quickfire round for two minutes with a point for each correct answer. The leading four male and female contenders advance to the semi-final stage. The contestant in bold won and contested the quickfire round, while the contestant in normal fonts was eliminated. Men's leaderboard Women's leaderboard In the event of a tie, the leader was the contestant who answered their last correct answer earliest in the quickfire round. The format was the same as that used previously on "Are You an Egghead?", with the