Which sportsman has a son called Thunder and a daughter called Olympia Lightning?

The answer to that at the end of the show. My name's Tom Scott, and this is lateral.

Hello and welcome again to another 40 minutes or so of lateral thinking questions based on fascinating facts and amazing stories.

Please remember to have your bucket of water, box of candles and Parmesan cheese on standby.

To our regular listeners, don't worry, I know that you don't actually need those things,

but I really hope that just a moment some new listener was confused. However,

none of our guests today are going to be confused because they are all returning players.

First of all, we have professional puzzle editor and writer for the quiz show Only Connect.

Dan Peek, welcome back.

Hello, thank you for having me again. Did you bring the Parmesan cheese?

I brought cheddar.

Is that going to be okay?

In a sentence that will annoy every cook out there, it's going to be close enough.

You can just great, great cheddar on everything, it'll be fine. I like that we're now going into pedantic cookery here. My job is sort of to be sort of to be surrounded by

pedants in terms of quiz questions

and just, I get feedback sometimes

and go, I get feedback

sometimes and go, I think you'll find you a slightly incorrect. And I love the feedback that I get.

I once asked a question, Hell's Kitchen is a suburb of which city. Yep. The answer being

New York City, as far as I know.

Good.

But no, because it's not really a suburb, is it?

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