Twitter czar has the last laugh on comedian's crazy quiz

Labour's "Twitter czar" has been deluged with daft questions after comedian Ross Noble launched a "Twitterbombard" campaign.

Noble urged his 30,000 Twitter "followers" to send crazy queries to Kerry McCarthy's site to see how the MP, who fronts Labour's new media campaigning, would react.

However, the comedian was forced to say "fair play" after the Bristol East MP answered more than 100 questions in six hours.

Asked if she would wear a gorilla suit to Parliament, she replied: "I don't think it's expressly forbidden, I could give it a try?"

When a fellow vegan asked her to recommend a cheese substitute, she said: "I prefer Cheezly, though Sheese sometimes has its uses and the soft Scheese is good."

And challenged to start a Mexican wave in the Commons, she joked: "We do it on the Labour benches when Nick Clegg is speaking. You just don't see it happening."

Noble started the questions with the surreal: "Do you think Billy Ocean will make any difference to your chances on election day?"

A puzzled Ms McCarthy said: "Am I taking part in an 'ask Kerry silly questions contest', and no one's told me?"

But she soon worked out what was going on and began her mammoth response session by replying to Noble with a quote from soul legend Ocean's song: "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."