'Temptation' host Ed Phillips asks yet another question Gerald was unable to answer

"I don't know what happened," said Sugden, who read The Really Difficult Quiz Book and played countless games of Trivial Pursuit in preparation for the show. "My team, The Dukes Of Ale, always take home the $50 drink voucher at Trivia Madness! down at the Oxford, so I thought I'd be a real contender on Temptation. Jesus, I was already spending the Vault money."

According to his wife Cassandra, Sugden's problems began almost as soon as he sat down. "I could tell Gerald was nervous," she said. "When Ed and Livinia asked him about his Franklin Mint collection, he just froze, then mumbled something about passing them on to our kids."

"We don't even have kids," she added.

Things only got worse for Sugden, who mistakenly thought Matthew Flinders discovered Tasmania and took no part in the tense, neck-and-neck race through the final fast money round that led to the carryover champ narrowly retaining her crown. "I can't believe I memorised all the Melbourne Cup winners and Soviet leaders," said Sugden. "I thought for sure there'd be something on Makybe Diva, what with the equine flu and everything."

"I'm glad the smug bastard lost," said fellow pub trivia attendee Rob Clifford, of the Pint Professors. "The look on his stupid, fat, I-know-all-about-the-Russian-Revolution face when he realised the only thing he was taking home was a pen was priceless. Maybe it'll stop him trying to correct the quizmaster's pronounciation for a week or two."