The team is Stu, Oli and me. This is the first time in weeks that there have been more than two of us, so we may yet escape ignominy. We start well with a question about a hill in Nepal that was recently renamed after someone. Stu reckons it’s Joanna Lumley, which is an answer too good to be wrong. But then we have a question about a war poet who died in 1967. Stu suggests Siegfried Sassoon but for some reason I’m sure he died in the war. He didn’t. I blame Oli for failing to arbitrate properly in the dispute.

Paul McCartney has sold 100 million records as a solo artist and as a member of a band. Who’s the only other person to have done this? We guess that it might be John Lennon, but we’ve failed to take into account that it’s the Ian Woan Memorial Team that’s setting the quiz tonight. Several teams at the Prince of Wales have an answer they always like to get into the quiz when they set it; Oli always asks a question about San Marino, for no apparent reason. Evil Patrick normally gets in Casablanca. The Woans, inexplicably, always get Phil Collins in. As they read out the answers they tell us that he may or may not appear later on in the quiz as well.

Luckily we move off music for a while with a question about exploration. After Amundsen and Scott went there in 1912, no-one made it to the south pole until 1958. Who got there then? It was Edmund Hillary, and I’ve fractionally redeemed myself. But then it goes wrong again. Who gave a benefit gig for the Natural Law Party in 1992, his first UK gig for 23 years? Easy enough – it’s George Harrison. And for a bonus point, who joined him on stage to play the drums? Ringo Starr would be an obvious answer. But could it possibly be Phil Collins again? Somehow, we fail to fully appreciate that Phil Collins is a right wing nut job who threatens to move back to the UK if the tories win elections. When the Woans said that he “may or may not” appear later on, it turns out they meant the latter.

We end up in fourth. We kind of expected this. What’s heartbreaking is how close we were to winning – we finish on 61 points, two teams in joint second have 62, and the winners have 63. One more correct answer and we would have been in first place. We have a quick Mexican standoff of blame before leaving the pub in disgust.