Who are the most exciting unexposed three-year-olds in Britain? Finally, it’s a quiz question I can answer

There’s a pub quiz round the corner from me that I’ve been going to sporadically for more than a decade. It’s expertly run with a great atmosphere and a whole host of regulars. It’s also very, very hard.

We’ve never won, have never come that close to winning and whenever we think we are in with a shout, one of the regular teams casually answers 59 out of 60 questions right so nonchalantly that I start to wonder if I’ve misheard the questions.

Two years ago, though, my ears pricked up: 'Which city featured in The Iliad was also the name of last week’s Epsom Derby winner?' I finally got to see how I look when a question about 19th-century history or old names of obscure countries is put to the room. Heads were scratched, brows were furrowed.