At Home with John and Debbie

Entries to the quiz of the year could hardly be called a “torrent”. Even “trickle” is something of an exaggeration. OK, there were two entries.

I’ve already posted the answers. Both entrants could be docked marks for trivial deviations from the model answers — “meaning of life” instead of “purpose of life”; specifying “baby Jaron” when the correct answer was a non-specific baby; not giving the full name of the Pirates of the Carribean film; etc. However, the judges erred on the side of generosity, so both entrants were awarded 12 marks out of 12.

And so it falls to the tie breaker. Miss Debbie Pickford of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire wins with her rhyming tie breaker. “It is more convenient for you to give the prize to me than to my fellow competitor because…”

I live in the same house as you
and see you every day,
and technically that DVD
belongs to me anyway.

The runner up, Mr John Cardy, a cyberstalker from Tenby (I think), quite frankly threw the competition with his tie breaker:

if there is a fellow competitor mad enough to have spent time doing this as I have, let him have the prize.

(Most of the people I know who are Guardian readers are also reactionaries so I might just get that prize after all)

Not so reactionary as to throw away an excuse not to buy a stamp. Thanks for playing.

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