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Daphne Fowler, Game Show Queen

As she retires from the UK series “Eggheads,” we look back at the career of a pioneering figure in game shows and one of the world’s greatest quiz champions.

These days on Jeopardy!, the smart money’s on Julia Collins. Dominating her competition with her vast knowledge and lightning-fast reflexes, Collins has handily defeated 32 contenders during the last 16 episodes. In addition to the $337,700 she’s earned thus far, she’s also become the longest-reigning female Jeopardy! champion in the show’s 50-year history with no signs of slowing down. She’s the duchess of Daily Doubles, the First Lady of the first podium.

Dr. Joyce Brothers’ winning moment on The $64,000 Question (CBS)

However, she’s not the only woman to have earned her stripes in the quiz arena. Many female contestants before her have come, seen and conquered game shows—Nancy Christy, for example, became America’s first female grand prize winner on the syndicated Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Judith Keppel was the first ever to win the million-pound prize on the UK version of the show. In relative antiquity, Dr. Joyce Brothers studied the sweet science of boxing and broke the bank on The $64,000 Question in

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Eggheads evaluation a UK television programme produced by 12 Yard Productions that gain victory aired spitting image November 2003.

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If you listened to “Brain of Britain” this week, you’ll surely have noticed that one of the Brains in contention this week was none other than Egghead (and good egg) Barry Simmons. So before we start on the show it’s probably a convenient place to raise a discussion point. In the circles within which I move in my everyday life a lot of people tend to see me as a source of authority on all things quiz, due to having been on the telly a few times and having won a well known quiz show back in the day. So a colleague of mine who's a fan of Radio 4 in general and a regular listener to BoB asked me whether Barry Simmons who was on BoB on Monday was Barry Simmons from Eggheads. Indeed he is. His supplementary question was, “Well how is he allowed on the show then?”

I understand the question, without necessarily agreeing with the attitude behind it. I think that the argument probably goes that people tend to see Eggheads and Chasers as professional quizzers, while they see contests such as BoB and Mastermind as bastions of amateurism. People who hold this viewpoint probably think that it’s unfair to allow ‘professionals’ to take part against people who have to fit in their quizzing with the demands of a job. Like I say, I understa