They say you can judge how good a restaurant is by how busy it is. So if the punters queuing down the street outside Leve Bakery on a Thursday lunchtime are anything to go by, Stockport's newest kebab house is off to a flying start.
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A member of the Macclesfield and Stockport quiz league has been crowned the 2022 Mastermind Champion after a perfect performance on her specialist subject, The Peak District National Park.
Alice Walker, 66, a retired IT consultant living in Derbyshire, won the grand final of the BBC Two quiz show on Monday night, April 11. She's been part of the Macclesfield and Stockport quiz league since the 1980s, and applied for the show after considering it for years.
Partner Haydn watched on with granddaughter Evelyn, and daughter Laura who called her mum the "cleverest grandma in the country", whilst Alice's dance group, the Poynton Jemmers North West Morris Dancers, featured in a clip on the show to cheer Alice on. Alice prepared by reading lots of guidebooks, looking at maps, and reading up on all the historic sites around the park before walking round it with her dog Leo to cement the knowledge into her brain.
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The work certainly paid off as Alice was able to correctly answer 33 questions asked by journalist Clive Myrie, 14 about her specialist subject and a whopping 19 correct answers in the general knowledge round. Two other contestants from Greater Manchester were fighting it out for the title, Ian Wang, an auditor from Manchester, chose the works of Sir Steve McQueen as his specialist subject and scored 25 points overall, placing him fifth.
Sarah Trevarthen, an environment and safety consultant from Bury, picked Dame Barbara Hepworth as her chosen subject, wracking up 27 points to put her in joint-second, a title she shared with Patrick Buckingham, a solicitor from London, who chose to answer questions about the early 20th century Hollywood star Carole
They say you can judge how good a restaurant is by how busy it is. So if the punters queuing down the street outside Leve Bakery on a Thursday lunchtime are anything to go by, Stockport's newest kebab house is off to a flying start.
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