I definitely got distracted loads - I often used to pop into Blackwells en route for library and forget to emerge for a few hours - but I'm sure I'd have got distracted a LOT more had internet fandom and Wikipedia been waving alluringly at me.

The banquet happened two or even three weeks after Finals finished, and I don't remember too much banquet-related distraction happening while Finals were still happening - though during Finals, I did make a point of always stopping revision before 7.30 every night, and still going to all my societies. But it was a very long time ago, so, really, I have no idea. As well as an attention inch, I sometimes seem to have a memory millimetre. Pretty much all I clearly remember is the boar's head...