On the spot

Quidnunc knows she can't believe everything she is told. She slipped up last week on Channel 4's quiz 15 to 1 and accepts assurances from Regent Productions that the programme was a repeat of one shown in 1993; that the question was: Name a party in the Republic's coalition government; that the answer was: the Irish Labour Party and that the quizmaster replied: "Yes, the Irish Labour Party or Fianna Fail."