Or, if it’s easier, just call it 3 cubed.

The rules are simple. There are 9 questions (3²), each of which has 3 answers, to give a total of 27, or 3³. The whole point is that the questions are somewhere between eclectic, banal and downright bizarre, so that you can answer completely truthfully without actually giving much away. Just put down the first three answers that come to mind if you can’t work out the “most appropriate” three.

Okay then, here goes:

Objects Within One Metre Of You

1. Can of diet coke
2. Cetirizine tablets, 10mg (for hayfever)
3. Terry Pratchett’s “Small Gods”

First Names of People You Sat Next To At School

1. Gavin
2. Richard
3. Mark

TV Programmes You Won’t Watch

1. Big Brother
2. Coronation Street
3. Murder She Wrote

Favourite Trivial Pursuit Categories

1. Science & Nature
2. Art & Literature
3. Sport & Leisure

Superpowers You’d Like To Have

1. Immortality
2. Time Travel
3. Flying

Newspapers, Magazines or Periodicals Read Regularly

1. Viz because Sweariwordum est maximus et sapiens
2. Fortean Times: weirdness from ABCs to UFOs
3. The Newcastle Evening Chronicle

Songs You Dislike

1. Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus
2. The Time Warp (remix) by Damian
3. Saturday Night by Whigfield

Blog Posts of Your Own That You’d Recommend

1. Bigotry In The UK
2. Living With Thanatophobia
3. For England, and Saint George!

People You’d Like To See Answer These Same Stupid Questions

1. The Goldfish
2. Rich Pedley
3. Gill

Of course, if you aren’t directly tagged, and you still want to join in, you’re welcome. In fact, if you drop me a line, I’ll sneakily amend the post to shoe-horn you in, so it looks like you were asked in the first place.