On Friday evening I played three games of Trivial Pursuit against my wife.

In the first game, she got all six wedges, leaving me with no lives for the Wedge Off. She won. In the second game, I got one or two wedges but still lost. In the third game I scraped a win, leaving me with a little bit of pride left, but not much.

It wasn’t as if the questions were favouring her – I just wasn’t as good.