Quite a battle. Graham in his customary loud shirt. Laura
steely. No eye contact. This is a fight to remember.
It’s Graham though who starts on the back
foot, pausing, wincing, trying to squirt the answers
out of his brain. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. He fluffs
question after question.
Prior to 1973 which country was known as British
Honduras? *****
Which character did Conan Doyle describe as 'The
Napoleon of Crime'? *********
********
But it’s nothing if not unpredictable this
game. Graham’s clock is on 33 seconds and
falling when Laura gets snagged on these:
How was the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi
more commonly known? She says ‘Michelango’.
Easy mistake. It is of course : ***********
In rowing what name is given to the oarsman who
sets the timing for the crew? *****
… until they’re neck and neck.
Graham weathers a battery of toughies but manages
scrapes a correct answer with just 44 milliseconds
on his clock. It's surely over. Laura cannot however
rustle up a correct answer to finish him off.
A switch would end the game instantly but she
forgets. Instead she tackles question after question
as her time spills away. Finally she remembers
to switch and flips Graham out of the game.
She walks with a respectable 8.65 advantage. Not
using the switch earlier however may have been
a serious tactical error.
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