There are only seven teams in the house tonight. It’s the quietest night in years, so we have to fancy our chances of getting into the money. The quiz is pretty easy tonight, by Prince of Wales standards, even including a question asking for the capital of Australia. Such straightforward questions are manna from heaven for us, but also to everyone else in the pub. We find ourselves in fifth at the end of the first round.

Luckily our form improves, and we get into second place. The beer round answers are all cricket grounds, but even Ivan doesn’t know that the SWALEC stadium is one of the test cricket grounds. I don’t even understand what test cricket is, let alone where it’s played, but I berate him anyway.

We finish the quiz in joint third place. The quiz masters have overrun a little bit and decide that it’s not worth a tie-break to sort out who wins the five pounds of prize money, and we get £2.50 for our efforts – 83.3p each for me, Ivan and Oli. It’s probably the smallest prize we’ll ever get at the Prince of Wales.