Are You an Egghead? final. The final of Are you an Egghead?: Barry Simmons v. Shaun Wallace: In the final, Barry Simmons came back against all the odds to claim his place as the sixth Egghead. However, during the head-to-head rounds it looked anything but, as Shaun took the first 3 on Music, Geography and Arts and Books to assure he would have the advantage in the final round. It was the fourth head-to-head before Shaun even got an answer wrong, Barry finally winning at Science. Shaun eventually took a 4–1 lead into the final round as he completed the head-to-heads with a win
Egghead Software scandal. Although Egghead had more PC software sales experience than most any other retailer, having been in business with outlets across the nation since PCs became popular in the mid-1980s, and having pioneered Internet software and hardware sales, they were nevertheless out-resourced and surpassed by the publicly traded giant Amazon.com. Sales were insufficient to sustain the business in the face of such a multinational giant, their stock plummeted, and the company went into bankruptcy. In 2001, Amazon purchased Egghead for $6.1 million. Egghead.com now redirects to Amazon's software pages. Egghead Software Egghead Software was a computer software retail company. It