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A team from the Daily Telegraph won the Bob & CO PEN Quiz which took place last night (13th November). The Telegraph team narrowly beat rival teams from the Guardian and Observer, and the Literary Review.
The Telegraph won by a single point, with the Guardian/Observer and Literary Review tying for second place, and a team from the London Book Fair coming in third.
English PEN raised £20,000 from the evening, funding the organisation's work campaigning for the freedom of expression. Radio and TV presenter Clive Anderson hosted the evening, held at RIBA, and cartoonist Martin Rowson announced the winners.
The winning team was made up of Richard Preston, Mick Brown, Martin Chilton, Robert Colvile, Sarah Crompton, Christopher Howse, Philip Johnston, Mark Monahan, Sameer Rahim and James Walton.
Other guests at the evening included Joan Bakewell, Sebastian Faulks, Will Gompertz, Philip Hensher and Kate Mosse.
Director of English PEN Jo Glanville said: "Remarkably this is the 12th anniversary of the PEN Quiz. It remains the flagship event for our charity and we are hugely appreciative of the support we receive from the publishing and media industries."
Teams which took part on the night included Bob & Co, Blacks Club, Bloomberg, Canongate, Carter Ruck, Daily Telegraph, Faber & Faber, Guardian/Observer, HarperCollins, Orion, Times, Little, Brown, London Book Fair, Press Complaints Commission, Random House Penguin, Political Quarterly, Financial Times.