Barry Simmons was the winner of the BBC Two show Are You an Egghead?

Are You an Egghead?

Are You an Egghead? was a BBC quiz show presented by Dermot Murnaghan. It is a spin off from the quiz show Eggheads, with its goal to find a further Egghead to complement the existing team. The first series was aired weekdays from 20 October to 2 December 2008 and was won by Barry Simmons...

 and as a result became the sixth Egghead, joining Kevin Ashman

Kevin Ashman

Kevin Ashman from Winchester, Hampshire in England is one of the world's most successful quiz players and since 2002 a professional quizzer, an Egghead since 2003...

, C. J. de Mooi

C. J. de Mooi

Connagh-Joseph de Mooi, known as CJ de Mooi or simply CJ , is a professional quizzer and a panellist on the BBC television show Eggheads...

, Daphne Fowler

Daphne Fowler

Daphne Fowler born January 1939 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England, is a British retired bank secretary and game show champion who currently resides in Weston-super-Mare. Since taking early retirement, she has taken part in many televised game shows...

, Christopher Hughes and Judith Keppel

Judith Keppel

Judith Cynthia Aline Keppel was the first one million-pound winner on the television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in the United Kingdom.-Personal life:...

 on the regular show on 2 December 2008.

On winning the series, Barry said:

"Other than my wedding day and the birth of my two wonderful children, it was simply the happiest day of my life. I couldn't believe that I had won such a challenging competition against such a strong field."

Simmons is from Leeds

Leeds

Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

. He won £64,000 on 5 February 2005 edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television game show which offers large cash prizes for correctly answering a series of multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. The format is owned and licensed by Sony Pictures Television International. The maximum cash prize is one million pounds...

, and was a semi-finalist on Mastermind

Mastermind (TV series)

Mastermind is a British quiz show, well known for its challenging questions, intimidating setting and air of seriousness.Devised by Bill Wright, the basic format of Mastermind has never changed — four and in later contests five contestants face two rounds, one on a specialised subject of the...

 and has represented England at quizzing. He reached the final of the 2008/2009 series of Brain of Britain

Brain of Britain

Brain of Britain is a BBC radio general knowledge quiz, broadcast on BBC Radio 4.-History:It began as a slot in What Do You Know? in 1953 before becoming a programme in its own right in 1967. It was chaired by Franklin Engelmann until his death in 1972.-Format:The format of the quiz is simple...

, but was defeated by Geoff Thomas. He has been a researcher at text question and answer service AQA 63336 since 2006. Barry was part of an AQA team that appeared on Eggheads; he won his own round but the team was defeated in the final round.