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Rancour erupts on the final round. Two teams query their marks, and it turns out both failed to hear part of a question and so didn’t give the answer to it. Luckily the team to my left vouches that I definitely said ‘what poet ”and what work”’, but the teams are not too happy. They are tied for second place but having failed to bully me into giving them extra marks they will have to answer a tie-breaker to see who gets bumped into third. For the first tie-break, both teams put exactly the same number, so we require a tie-tie-breaker. Luckily this splits the teams. I discover later that the third-place bunch actually got a mark they shouldn’t have got earlier in the quiz, inexplicably having been given a point for believing that Sofia is on the Danube. So, in the end justice prevails.
The snowball stands at a modest total having been won last week. I will be furious if Evil Patrick’s number is drawn again, but luckily his forces of darkness fail to work this week. “Must be some mistake”, he claims as someone else’s number is drawn. This week’s question is ‘By what single word is the honey bear (”potus flavus”) better known?’. The person whose ticket was drawn doesn’t know, and Chris who writes the snowball questions asks, as normal, if anyone else does. A pause. “Paris Hilton’s got one…”, prompts Chris. “Beaver!” comes a happy yell from somewhere in the pub. But no - rather more boringly it’s a kinkajou.
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