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n. (plural of egghead English)

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Eggheads (TV series)

Eggheads is a BBC quiz show that airs on weekdays. It was first broadcast in 2003 chaired by Dermot Murnaghan. In 2008 Jeremy Vine became joint chair, and subsequently sole chair. In each episode, a team of five quiz and game show champions (the Eggheads) is challenged by a team of five contestants for prize money. It has since been confirmed that Dermot will return to present, replacing Vine.

The most prize money that has been won is £75,000, in 2007. Some teams have been reduced to one contestant for the final round, but have still beaten five Eggheads. Occasionally, one remaining Egghead will beat five challengers. Only once have the Eggheads lost four games in succession and only twice has a team of all five challengers won the final round.

Occasional teams of celebrities challenge the Eggheads in short series, with their own rolling prize fund.

The show has resulted in three spinoff series: Are You an Egghead? (2008), Revenge of the Egghead (2014) and Make Me an Egghead later in 2016.

Usage examples of "eggheads".

Goddamn eggheads have probably all gone native or got wrapped up in their experiments.

The guilty eggheads, he said, should be charged with arson, murder, and treason and the maximum penalty assessed---if they are brought in alive.

There are a few others, some scientists, some laymen, but eggheads all.

The eggheads sealed themselves into shells, and they had to be broken out.

The eggheads are being scrapped now so that the components can be used for more valuable organisms.

It was a hard, bitter road he was about to walk, and everyone would line the road to stone him, eggheads and Lowbrows, scientists and laymen.

They say that the eggheads must die if the people are to live, and the eggheads will die.

We find bits and pieces of their solutions that survived the time of flames when the Lowbrows rebelled and ran the eggheads, and the time of starvation and time of troubles that followed when almost four billion men and women and children died of starvation and privation and violence.

World Space Complex that was designed by Professor Masterson and his eggheads to outline and delineate the various ifs of the Centaur projects.

A shitload of money to keep a handful of eggheads employed, if you ask me.