Hound of the Butler –Sloss’

 

No Robson, Pete or Steve this week due to various encumbrances so it was down to a bare 3 of me, Graham and Kevster.

 

Pre match ruminations centred on the World Cup and David Luis in particular with agreement that he plays football ‘like a puppy chasing a paper bag on a windy day’.

 

When trying to identify possible current affairs questions Kevster came up with “and of course don’t forget Baroness Butler-Sloss”

 

There then followed the opening round of pictures of Tom’s in films. Well, 6 Tom Hanks and 4 Tom Cruise, which was a bit random but fairly routine.

 

Then, onto the aforementioned ‘Current Affairs’ round which contained questions about aeroplane near misses in Barcelona, Justin Bieber being naughty with eggs and Duncan Bannantyne leaving Dragon’s Den.

 

Then the question of “who is due to lead the Parliamentary inquiry into Paedophiles?” dropped into our laps

 

“Schloss –Brown?”

“Saxe Coburg?”

“Blox Schloss?”

“I don’t think she was a Baroness you know”

 

Despite it being less than an hour since Kevster clearly instructed us not to forget her name – we had!

 

Round 3 was on Europe and the bone of contention in this round was which City, before London, has hosted the modern Olympics 3 times. This made Graham so mad he determined there and then to write out all the host cities since 1896. What we didn’t know was that there was an unofficial Olympic games held in Athens in 1906. Remember that, it will make a good quiz question.

 

The connections round was, amongst others, Arthur Lowe, Mrs Beeton, Gerry Adams and Craig David giving the somewhat surprising answer of ‘Darts players’, which we recognised.

 

The 3 Ten pointers this week were fairly easy; St Swithin’s day is in July, Baldrick from Blackadder and a London Bridge that is also a make of car being Vauxhall.

 

The second half of the quiz is more of a blur but I remember we got 9 out of 10 for the Jeopardy round and doing well to avoid the bear trap on the question of ‘what is the longest river in Europe?’ The answer is the Volga. We also got near perfect marks for the last lines of books only failing to recognise '"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." *

 

The music was fine and for once we were fairly confident that we’d be up there, having only slipped up on the Butler Sloss, a couple of Tom Films, 1 Book, the Volga and Athens questions, so it was a surprise to be beaten into second place 161 – 155.

 

Oh well, onto next week

 

* Catcher in the Rye