[HW1997]

‘Hannah, which was the first country to allow women to vote?’. I had heard this one. Australia? Or New Zealand?

‘New Zealand?’

‘Finally Hannah gets one right!’ The crowd groaned at having to wait to see my thong come off. But there was another chance now for nudity with Laura.

‘Laura, the lowest possible temperature ever achieved is known as what?’

She thought but looked unsure. She had to try and guess to avoid being completely nude.

‘Total freezing?’ She ventured.

‘Close, it’s absolute zero’ she said. Laura let out a gasp and the crowd cheered as the man cut both sides of her blue g string at once. I watched on the big screen as it fell to the floor, revealing Laura’s fully naked body. With her legs spread she was fully exposed, and the camera panned in and everyone in the room saw her entirely hairless crotch and labia. The camera switched after a few seconds and we saw Laura’s butt, which was round and quite small. The camera continued to zoom in towards her butt crack but her cheeks completely covered her butthole. She was probably thankful for at least one blessing. I thanked my lucky stars that I wasn’t the first naked. The thought suddenly hit me though. Laura was hairless. I still had a neat triangle of pubes. It was the way I’d always kept it, but what if I was the only one? Shit, I said to myself. The potential embarrassment made me redden and begin to sweat.

Jess was next and lost her bra. Her breasts were close to perfect, round and pert, symmetrical and sizeable. Chloe managed to get her question right and my heart sank as I realised I would probably not be winning this round.

‘Hannah, which animal is known in Spanish as a Tiburon?’

I thought it sounded like tiger. I had no idea. I guessed. I was wrong.

‘It’s a shark, I’m afraid you now lose your thong!’

My heart beat fast, and I wriggled uncomfortably while the man approached me. As he had done with Laura, he slid a pair of scissors either side of my thong. He counted down, ‘five, four, three, two, one’ the crowd joined in and he snipped. My thong fell to the ground and the crowd cheered. My eyes flicked up to the big screen, and the camera slowly zoomed in towards my most intimate area, closer and closer until all that could be seen on the 4 metre wide screen was the tops of my thighs, my labia, and the triangle of neatly trimmed pubic hair above my vagina.

I felt totally humiliation and a lot of embarrassment about potentially being the only girl who wasn’t completely hairless down there. My embarrassment deepened when the presenter picked up on it ‘nice hairstyle Hannah’ she teased.

She moved next to Laura, who finally got a question right. She breathed a sigh of relief as the presenter moved to Jess. Jess could also end up naked on the next go. And she did. Her panties were flung into the crowed and I had a full view of her privates, which sure enough, like Laura’s were completely devoid of hair. As Jess noticed the camera trained on her butt, she gave it a little shake up and down, which delighted they crowd.

Chloe was right yet again. She was a trivia goddess. And then, naked, exposed and with my sweat running down my body the presenter came to me.

‘Hannah, to avoid getting suspended, what is the second highest mountain on earth?’

Fuck, why geography again? I thought hard.

‘I don’t know’, I replied, knowing full well what that meant.

‘It’s actually K2. You know what that means everyone!’ The presenter said. The restraints around my ankles sprang open and at the same time, I was hoisted by my hands, pulling my feet off the floor by about 6 feet. Once I was suspended, a section of the floor of the stage rolled back. The crowd cheered and clapped all the while. I looked down, and saw what awaited me. I was now dangling naked, 7 feet above a tank of thick blue, green, yellow and red slime. I couldn’t gauge the depth but I imagined given the height of the stage it could have been 10 feet deep. I was hanging by just my wrists, and if released, I would fall instantly into the slime, and be completely covered.

Laura then faced the same, hoisted and suspended above the pool of gunge. She swayed and her feet kicked a little in the air. I looked over at the screen and saw how pretty she was, with her long straight red hair, her tight pale body and her blue eyes.

Jess now also faced the same, hoisted and staring down into the slimy mess. Stretched out I noticed her distinctive tan lines, around her chest and hips.

At last Chloe got a second question wrong, and was finally down to just her bra and thong, but was looking comfortable. Chloe was extremely fit, she had long blonde hair in a braid, beautiful blue eyes, a narrow waist and a surprisingly wide butt and hips. Her abs were even more defined than my own.

And now it came back to me, the first chance someone had to be slimed. The crowd cheered knowing this. My sweating had only intensified, and it was now dripping down the whole length of my body, down over my breasts, my abs, down my legs to my feet where it dropped off me into the pool of gunge.

‘Hannah, it is now sudden death’ if you fail to get this question right, you will be dropped into the slime and lose the round. The most common chemical element is what?’

I had no idea. I gulped. I looked down and contemplated what was about to happen. I took a guess.

‘Nitrogen’, I said tentatively.

The presenter paused. I tensed every muscle in my body, expecting my next sensation to be cold and wet. I closed my eyes.

‘Correct!’ She said. I heaved a sigh of relief abd went limp.

The presenter now moved over to Laura who was looking terrified.

‘Laura, who made the first jouney to the South Pole?’

She looked confident, relieved even. ‘Captain Scott’ she stated more than asked.

Again the presenter paused. There was silence. I watched the screen, not breathing. And then there was a click, and Laura plunged into the slime with a scream. Some gunge splashed up to my legs. It was cold. Really cold. I looked down to my left where she was now engulfed in the slime. She resurfaced completely covered without a patch of skin showing, and wiped her eyes. She floated for a moment and then made towards the edge of the tank. The screen showed a slow motion replay of the drop. She was about to climb out of the tank when the presebter stopped her and told her she had to stay in until the end.

The screen showed her with her arms crossed on the side of the tank, her red hair completely covered in slime.

Jess was next. There was a sharp intake of breath after her question, but she got it right. Chloe was also right.

‘Hannah you have to get at least the next 4 questions right to be in with a chance of beating Chloe’ she said.

‘Who was the first man in space?’ She asked.

Was it a trick? Surely? I went with it.

‘Neil Armstrong?’ I offered. My abs were tensed, my chest and my legs and my butt too. I closed my eyes in preparation.

Click.

And the next thing I new I was in the gunge, under the surface. It was freezing cold, and even slimier than I had thought. I pushed off from the bottom and surfaced and cleared my eyes. I joined Laura at the side of the tank as the slow motion replay played on the screen. I saw myself screwing up my eyes and noted how tense my abs were. Then I disappeared into the gunge. My hair was matted to my face.

Beside me, Laura spoke to me for the first time, ‘bad luck Hannah’ she said, shivering.

‘You too’ I said back to her.

‘At least there are 4 more rounds to go’ she remarked.

‘I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing’, I responded.

I looked up at Jess suspended by her hands, and Chloe still in her underwear. I hoped none of the other rounds revolved around trivia, otherwise Chloe will be unbeatable. The presenter moved to Chloe, and I hoped beyond hope that she would at least get her modesty shown to the audience.