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A PLACE ON THE CHASE

Here’s a question for quizzing genius Jenny Ryan from The Chase: does she ever feel bad when she beats a team of contestants? Even the slightest bit sorry?

She has to think about the answer for a moment. “Sometimes. It’s tricky,” says the professional quizzer known as The Vixen.

“We get a lot of contestants who are really deserving, but we don’t give away money to people for being nice. You have to be an excellent quizzer or else catch us on a particularly bad day, and we don’t have many of those.”

But what about those who do really well,

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