I am very late; so late that I’m almost sacked from team. They’re doing OK, but I know that Wilbert Vere were the first two names of Awdry and they don’t, so I am allowed to stay on, until round two anyway. They have everything else covered, and we find ourselves high up the table.

Keith and Anne are setting the quiz tonight. Apparently their beer rounds have been rated as too hard so they’ve dumbed this one down especially. The first two answers are Jimmy Hoffa and Marie Celeste, and I feel sure the connection has something to do with the Osmonds. But it’s simpler than that, it’s just things to do with disappearances. We get all six questions right, and it’s down to the tiebreak. How long is the longest golf course in the world? We guess 779 miles and hand in our sheet. The answer is apparently required in kilometres but we can’t be bothered to multiply anything by 1.609 right now. We say, go with the flow. 779km will do. The answer is 1365km, but we’re closest anyway, and we enter round three with thirst slaked.

One of the questions in round three involves book titles of 2, 3, 4 and 5 letters. From their descriptions, If, Kes and Scoop are easy enough to get. But a book about a girl who dies in a boating accident we don’t know. I suggest “Gulp”. This is not correct. We find ourselves in joint second with three teams. Can we avoid fourth? Amazingly, we can. We’re helped by Keith and Anne’s usual grand prix question. Which sport’s championships have been decided for the last five years at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace? It’s Formula One, and second is ours.

Stu is in possession of the winning snowball ticket. Could we take second place, the beer round, and the snowball? If only it had been Pete’s ticket, we could have. He knows that Dundee United used to be called Dundee Hibernian. Stu doesn’t. It’s been more than five years now – surely our snowball time is coming.