And the result is...

...we came a very excellent third! A brilliant, nail-bitingly tense quiz has just ended with Manor Gardens Primary School from Durban, South Africa, coming first with 51 points by a huge margin, followed by the youngest team in the competition, Summit Heights Public School from Toronto, Canada (35 points). Cockermouth School came third with 27 points (I think, I was too busy taking photos to remember!) which was brilliant, as we lost a few points through being too excited in the first half but regained them with some fast answers after that.

The winning team were very knowledgeable and were ahead from the start; they fully deserved to win but the team from Summit Heights were also awesome as they were the youngest, some only 10 years old, and had never taken part before. They are Canada's first winners as this is that country's first year of entering the Kids' Lit Quiz.

Congratulations to all the teams but especially to our own team of course for doing so well.

Alistair says: Brilliant competition, best people won. It says a lot that even after the competiton, lots of us are still buried in a book.