We start this evening on blazing form. Prince of Wales quizzes often have a “nice easy one to start”, but tonight’s is about Icelandic corporate raiders. Despite this, we work out why Baugar named their offshoots Kcaj and Arev. They must be fans of Coronation Street, which I never watch and know nothing about, except that I know there are characters called Jack and Vera. After this complicated start, we get almost full marks and find ourselves in the lead.

There is only one way to go from here. Round two is a bunch of questions which have an easy answer and a hard answer. We are big enough fans of the Manic Street Preachers to name both their songs which have “Life” in the title (and they are both masterpieces), and there’s a cricket question for Ivan as well. We hold narrowly on to the lead.

But then we begin to slip. The patron saint of Jersey, we guess, is St. Helier, but then there’s a question about a sitcom which ran from 1979 to 1981 and then returned in 2007. We argue fiercely, very very nearly write down To The Manor Born and then decide to write down the wrong answer instead. We fall to second.

Can we retake the lead in round four? It does contain a travel/geography sort of question, and I do like them, but the question is what are the five most populated islands entirely in the western hemisphere. Many options are considered, some plausible and some implausible. One that we didn’t consider at all was Long Island. We did get Cuba, Hispaniola, Ireland and Puerto Rico, but it’s not enough. We are three points off the win, and have to content ourselves with 12 pounds for second place.