Cerberus

Blessed this week from a report writing viewpoint, Graham was off on hols in Malta so I picked up the role of question writer, a role I think akin to the bloke who sits to the right of the captain in University Challenge. Kevster played the part of the geeky fella who sits on his left, the one who they generally only ask when it's an astrophysics question and the rest of the team don't actually know his name, "nominate er, him". Daren played scribe and from that you'll gather no Steve, he was nursing cycling injuries having left around 40% of his skin on a road in Reigate. Anyway, blessed because as a consequence I have notes of questions etc. so none of the usual waffle.

So only three but numbers were generally down in the pub, someone mentioned the gap since last payday, don't people know there are companies who'll provide short term loans at very reasonable rates? If only I could remember what they're called. Pre match chit chat was on the gloomy side, mainly about dead women so absolutely no help for the current affairs round.

This week we expanded the popular game "guess the connection" to the rather similar, "guess the pictures" with predictions of "castles and stately homes", "footballers" and "Dereks". Well it proved to be London buildings and landmarks (another bleedin' London round) so I guess Dereks was closest.

On to current affairs and the most interesting question being about which politician would only trust a Muslim to do his shopping (see later 1). Next round, islands with the question that vexed us the most, well vexed Daren, Kevster and myself didn't have a clue, being the name of the inn in Treasure Island.

Connections and with predictions of TV detectives", "the World Cup" (someone isn't trying hard enough here) and "types of tomato" try these first five answers - King, Fiddler on the roof , Blue, Velvet and Oliver Stone? Clue, "types of tomato" was nearest. 10 pointers and some tricky ones, what sport is the Nino Bibbia cup played for and when was the Oscars first televised?

Top 10 was replaced by film tag lines which proved to be enjoyable. Steve would probably have known them all but we had fun trying to work them out. The most fun was with "The last man on earth is not alone". I had Will Smith and a German Shepherd (dog that is) from somewhere so you'd think the hard work was done but our collective memory failed us. Onto wipeout and we knew some half-assed answer like "the Vatican" wouldn't cut in on where popes are elected so we swerved that, Snow White in Latin and the first boxer to win world belts at 5 weights we just didn't know. Music and it reads like a story, Wouldn't it be nice, I can't help falling in love, Need you now, Viva la vida, Will you still love me tomorrow, Embarrassment. We knew most, Kevster agonised over something with Love in it.

The chocolates (Maltesers) round hung on when Walt Disney was born, quite pleased we didn't know that. All in all though it was a quiz where we left it all in the field as it were (not a pretty sight) and were rewarded with a barnstorming win. No reports of post match kebabs but Kevster was coming off a bout of gastroenteritis so maybe discretion prevailed.

Answers
Peter Robinson - Northern Ireland secretary or the like
Admiral Benbow
Crabs
Skeleton bob????
1953 - we got that!
I Am Legend
Sistine chapel
Nivia
Sugar Ray Leonard
1901 - he's younger than you think