SCOTLAND'S front row will be wasting their time if they try to ask questions of Adam Jones tomorrow, because the Osprey is a man with all the answers.

The 30-year-old was branded The Knowledge by Matt Dawson after a triumphant appearance on BBC's A Question of Sport.

The episode saw Phil Tufnell hugging Jones as he answered queries across a range of sports, including golf, snooker and boxing, as well as rugby.

And the Wales and Lions tight-head made a return to the studios recently and again showed up well, even if he reckons it wasn't quite up to the standard of his first effort.

"I wasn't quite as, how shall we say, dominant as the first time — it was a more difficult quiz," he said.

"I think they gave us harder questions because me and (Football Focus presenter) Dan Walker were expected to walk it... but he was terrible!

Swot

"I enjoy it and I'd love to do it again. You can't swot up. You just have to watch a lot of sport... I'm terrible at tennis, though."

Be that as it may, Jones did have one pearl of an answer on the sport he claims to know least about, coming up with the name Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, a Wimbledon finalist from the mid-1990s.

None of which is going to interest Allan Jacobsen as he sets about testing Jones's scrummaging knowledge at the Millennium Stadium.

For connoisseurs of set-piece play Cardiff could be the place to be as two of Europe's leading scrum practitioners go head to head.

Not that long ago, Scotland scrum coach Massimo Cuttitta rated Jacobsen as good as any No. 1 on the scene. "Allan is the best in the world along with the Australian loose-head (Benn Robinson)," said the former Italian international.

"He has improved so much, particularly the way he bores in at scrums — he's killing people."

Which begs the question: where's Taggart when you need him most? Anyway, a good contest seems assured, with Jones rarely bested these days, a player who has developed into a powerhouse scrummager for both region and country.

"Scotland have a much bigger front five than us, so it will be a fair old battle," said Jones.

"Their two second rows are 19st or even 20st stone men. Euan Murray is a big loss for them as he doesn't play on Sundays for religious reasons but Geoff Cross has done a good job when he has come in and then there is Ross Ford and Allan Jacobsen, who are seasoned campaigners.

"They are big guys, but it's technique as well as size. Look at New Zealand, they have had the best scrum around for seven or eight years.

"We'll just see what happens.

"I was impressed by Scotland's No. 8 (David Denton) against England and, really, they should have won the game. They're a good side and we will just have to get the ball out to our backs.

"It's gone from a plan of getting the ball to Shane to getting the ball to George," Jones laughed.

Such is George North's impact.

Jones himself has recently signed a two-year contract extension with the Ospreys. "I am just glad to have it settled now," he added.

"I wouldn't say it was relief because after a certain amount of time I knew that I was going to sign and it was just a case of crossing the t's and dotting the i's.

"But it's still good to get it sorted and out in the public arena."

The former Neath prop was involved in the preamble to the incident that saw Bradley Davies yellow-carded and banned for seven weeks for a tip-tackle against Ireland. Davies seemed to take exception to Donnacha Ryan trying to clean out Jones at a ruck, the sort of problem the Osprey encountered against Bakkies Botha in the South Africa-Lions Test series in 2009.

"I just got smashed again at the side of the ruck. It was very nice of Bradley if he was looking after me," quipped Jones. "I try not to get hit but perhaps people see me as an easy target.

"Brad'll be disappointed that he is out for seven weeks but rightly or wrongly he reacted.

"There is camaraderie in the group — you don't go through 21 days in Poland together without bonding. If it's not like years ago where there were big flare-ups on the pitch, it's still good to look out for each other.

"Everyone gets on."