‘Question 2. In which year did the Berlin Wall come down?’ shouted the quizmaster. And then he repeated this with dramatic pauses, as quizmasters are apt to do: ‘In which year…did the Berlin Wall…come down?’
‘Oh, yeah!’ said the youngest person in our team. ‘I just got that!’
‘What?’ I said.
‘Berlin Wall!’ she said, with a huge grin on her face.
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