But what we got really good at were the pub quiz machines. Rather than making polite chit-chat with our fellow student drinkers, the six of us would stand around the Monopoly machine like a trivia mafia syndicate. With our combined student knowledge covering nearly every base (Phil – politics; Tony – history; Becca – French and Spanish; Saz – French and management; me – chemistry; the other Rich – economics) and the fact that the questions kept repeating themselves, we could turn 50p stakes into profit. As a side hustle, Phil and I got whizzy at the Noel Edmonds Telly Addicts quiz machine. This relied on our other specialist subject, TV, and was, gloriously, a prize game you could win with practice. Just one or two games, each with a 50p stake, and we’d win the £5 jackpot. Thanks, Noel.