Bucephalus

Bucephalus Research estimates that sacking 30,000 people, or 19% of total staff, is necessary for a serious overhaul but it would involve restructuring costs of about 3 billion euros.

Then came the bonus question: “Bucephalus and Roan Barbary were steeds. For 20 points, what were Balmung and Durendal?”

In the pattern book, it is probably a mythical figure taken from Persian or Mughal sources, but in the Alexander romance, it represents the great warrior’s horse, Bucephalus.

“Bucephalus and Roan Barbary were steeds. For 20 points, what were Balmung and Durendal?”

One fateful morning Toad receives a telegram delivered by a motorcycle messenger, who “sat casually astride his glorious machine, like the conqueror Alexander upon his noble mount Bucephalus, or Perseus astride the divine Pegasus, or — well, there were all sorts of comparisons possible.”