The fact that the champions from 2017/2018 - Josefin Johanson and Johar Bendjelloul - garnered 40 points in the "On the track" final helped little when the duo Amiri and Wetterberg led the opposition. They instead looked defeated by last season's winning duo, who won the final by a margin of eight points.

"It's a bit overwhelming, we wouldn't have dared to expect that," says the historian and author Gunnar Wetterberg.

Miami decided

The journey that would lead to yet another trophy in the bookshelf began in Tel Aviv - and a while later Wetterberg noted that the second destination was Vimmerby after a clue about the German word for "always".

- My mother was a German teacher and I didn't want to read anything she had in mind. But now she has to sit in her sky and be glad I cut it, he says.

The decision came when journalist and host Parisa Amiri quickly responded "Miami" to the ten-point clue in the season's final destination.

- I was sure it was my historical failure, she says.

"Forgive Gunnar," Amiri said in the program. But the excuse was unnecessary - she had given the correct answer.

- Stress and pressure elicit something in me, it's fun to see what happens to someone in that situation. It can go completely the other way too, says Amiri.

Last year's newcomers say that their curiosity and the security they feel with each other is the success factor - but that nervousness is inevitable.

- When that jingle plays at the beginning of each trip, the adrenaline rushes and the pulse rushes. You can try to prepare, but ultimately it is about scooping out the bizarre knowledge you already had, says Wetterberg.

"Small old horse"

To repeat the victory tastes a little extra sweet for Parisa Amiri.

- I've always been a little old horse, so it's fun to have shown more parts of my personality and my interests. A big bonus is also what it means that someone like me, with a foreign parent, is seen in this way in an increasingly prejudiced society. It feels important to me, she says.