Live coverage of the match itself, which kicked off at 3pm, had 5.1 million viewers, peaking in its last 15 minutes with 5.8 million (28.1%) between 4.30pm and 4.45pm.
There is a whole wing of French pancake cookery based around sticky liqueur sauces and laced creams, peaking with crêpes suzette but, certainly in the UK, most cooks cannot use alcohol as a subtle flavouring, only to administer a punch to the throat.
These are our pro athletes, also peaking earlier and earlier.
We're both enraptured by the unfolding squabble between a woman in a conservative getup, excepting the red-streaked hair just peaking out from underneath her black headscarf, and the chador-cloaked morality police officer accosting her.
Who will pay the taxes to fund our welfare systems if our labour forces - now peaking in Europe and about to start to shrink - dwindle away?
The analysis suggests that there is a 75% chance of keeping emissions below the 2C target if all 14 projects – which are at varying stages of planning and approval – are cancelled, with emissions peaking in 2015 before falling by 5% annually.
Since peaking in 1980 at 25 abortions per 1,000 women of child-bearing age, it dropped to 21 per 1,000 in 1994, the latest year for which statistics are available.
Settled in a rush of migration, peaking in the 1880s, Nebraska's prairies were parcelled out to German, Czech, Danish, Swedish and even Luxemburgish pioneers.
Curiously, new research by Justin Murfin of Yale University and Mitchell Petersen from the Kellogg School of Management, suggests that the same is true of finance.They examined 30 years of corporate loans and found that the spread (or excess interest rate) that firms pay varied depending on when the debt was issued, with borrowing costs peaking in February and August.
And the message was incoherent: against economic reform, sniffy about Europe, in favour of printing money to stoke the economy (in the days before quantitative easing came into vogue).He flourished in opposition, peaking with 15% of the vote in 2005's presidential election.
Government intervention might work to lower oil prices if the intervention catches an overheated market just as it is peaking; done with conviction, it may then turn the tide of market sentiment.
