"You probably saw the recent story about a publican who grew suspicious of a team that won his pub quiz every week. He and his staff set about trying to discover exactly how they were cheating. Do you fancy testing your knowledge and recall of topical news? Before you read the next paragraph, for one point name the pub, and for two points name the suburb of Manchester where it's located."
"This autumn, I published The Killer Question, a crime fiction novel with a plot almost identical to this, albeit with a murder mystery woven in, which admittedly the Urmston case lacks. In my version, a mysterious new team, The Shadow Knights, arrive at a weekly quiz that's vital to an otherwise failing rural pub. They walk away with the win every week and drive the quiz master to distraction. How can any team be so spectacularly unchallenged by his carefully crafted questions?"
A publican at The Barking Dog in Urmston grew suspicious of a team that won his pub quiz every week and, with his staff, attempted to discover how they were cheating. A crime fiction novel called The Killer Question features a similar setup: a mysterious team named The Shadow Knights dominates a rural pub quiz and, in the novel, a body is later pulled from a nearby river. Regular quizzing provokes intense competitive feelings among players. An unspoken rule that the question master's decision is final can exacerbate frustration and tensions.
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