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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Life as a serial quizzer, the Olympics’ best boy, and more of this week’s uplifting news

Mariane Léveillé, in her apartment in Montreal, Canada.
Mariane Léveillé, in her apartment in Montreal, Canada. Photograph: Adil Boukind/The Guardian

Good morning.

Who among us has not, slumped on the sofa in our pyjamas, passively watched a contestant blow it on The Chase and thought: I could do better than this.

Mariane Léveillé certainly did. In 2000, the French-Canadian applied to be on a quizshow, smashed her audition and soon discovered “it was so exciting to be on set, answering quickfire questions. I didn’t care about being on TV … It was just such an adrenaline rush to hit that buzzer and get the answers right.”

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