2009 was a poor year for us at the Prince of Wales. We didn’t win the quiz, nor the beer round, nor (obviously) the snowball. Would 2010 be any better?

We start the quiz on blazing form. We know everything in round one, except for one question – what was the first oscar-winning film to have an all-male cast? We think it might be “12 Angry Men” – luckily Stu arrives just before the end of the round and tells us it’s “Lawrence of Arabia”. We’ve got full marks and a three point lead. Surely we’re going to win.

But it’s all downhill from there. By the end of the second round we’re only in joint first. The third round sees Ivan get a cricket question wrong, and us stumble into fourth. We’re not far off the money and our table is a scene of grim concentration during round four. It does no good – we continue the Slump and finish fifth. It’s a disastrous start to 2010.