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As in Breakfast Cereal? Because cereal crops have been around since before time. Do you go for Kellogg? I go for Kellogg.

Get up, record one of three shows (we get one each), win. Go back to the hotel room, and then party like it's 1999.

Well the Baseball was annoying because I watch a lot of baseball and I didn't remember the Marlins incident but for a Brit, I watch quite a bit of American sports.

But that is going to be a trap, the questions you have to live in the states to have a reasonable chance of answering. The more time I spend in the states, the better I am at answering them. When I travel around, I ask questions, like finding out that IHOP stood for International House of Pancakes, and Wendy's has square pancakes in their burgers, the little stuff you only pick up living in a place.

But when it comes to the rest of the world, I'm far better at international trivia than most Americans.

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The floor manager would kill me!

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No! Let me go further. I have never thrown so much as a question, let alone a show, and I'm totally confident my colleagues would say the same. We get flustered, we make mistakes, every once in a while we do something so unbelievably stupid. I had one the other day, I don't know if it's a form of Tourettes or something - "How many S's in Assassination"?

I work out there's 4. I then say 6.

And I know people might not believe this, but I thought 4, I said 6. It is not my job to decide who wins on that show, it's the contestant selectors and the producers, who am I to have the arrogance to decide who wins and loses on that show? The only fair way is to play as hard as I can on every show. If my beloved nieces were on that show, I'd play hard against them too. A few years ago, there was a British contestant who came on with an unbelievable sob story. I caught the team with 5 seconds to go, and afterwards, as I"m walking out, he's having a cigarette, and we have a brief chat, he turns around and says "I thought with my story you'd let me win." Nobody checks people for their backstories. And I can understand if people tell great tales to try to get through the contestant process. I'm a moral vacuum when we are playing. If you could piggy back on the signal in my brain. all you would hear me is thinking "What is the question Brooke just asked me, and what is the answer." And then afterwards, normal human being comes back. If we start playing favorites, etcetera, the show wouldn't last very long. What Joe Public picks up on is that we love playing. If you win by playing well, well-played, have the money, but I never want them to win because I've screwed up.

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