Lost and Hound

My second TQSR blog, and I am acutely aware of my schoolboy error the first time around. I never came up with a catchy title, preferably with some Hound based pun. No danger of that this time and the above tells the story, the Hound returned and we lost. Indeed, it seems inevitable that somebody soon will make a connection between his presence and our collective fortunes. The worrying trend hasn't been bucked since as far back as records began. (see * below). It can only be a matter of time, I wonder who will broach it first? For the record it would have been 'Hounding at the Moon' the first time around, you probably won't recall that we lost that week due to failing to distinguish a Harvest from a Hunters Moon (memo to self, blog after a win next time).

 

We began full of optimism, despite a creeping uncertainty about our scribes failure to turn up, based on certain symptoms described last week . It has to be said though that when news filtered through that it was due to what is usually called a heart event these days spirits were more than dampened. I won't say any more here because I still don't know much detail, but best wishes are sent to Daren from all Hounds and other well wishers from the opposing teams. .   . 

Brief synopsis of questions/answers as follows;

- Picture Round: Only Doris Rooney missed (Wayne's wife). 

- Current Affairs: A poor knowledge of pop celebrity litigation let us down (Adele got thousands because someone photographed her baby, and Duran Duran are suing their own American fan club for approx. $2.34). We were 4 out on the Indian boy's 'teeth' 228 v 232, and also managed to miss hilarious incidents involving a US bank robber who wore a t-shirt with his own name on and a swiss teenager whose kentucky chicken burger already had a bite taken out of it when he unwrapped it.These latter two provoked unpleasant memories of Theo's True/False round, a slow week for news indeed.

- Commonwealth Games: Inspired guesswork almost landed us full marks, but we changed number of host countries from 9 to 10 at the last minute on the grounds that we had probably missed one. We hadn't. 

- Connections Round: the answers all included 2 letter words that can be seen on the periodic table. Robin got it on Q3/4, some other teams never managed it all. We missed a Kevin Costner spy film, but managed to come up with a guess that included 2 elements, worth a point surely.  

- 3 x Ten Pointers: All good. Pipistrelle/bat, Slowhand/Eric Clapton, something to do with South Africa I think.

- Top Ten: Making an unwelcome return. The 10 countries with most Commonwealth Gold Medals over the years would you believe. Didn't really pay attention to the answers, but I expect that we got 7 anyway.

- Jeopardy Round: It has just taken me 90 seconds and 4 tries to spell Jaeorperdy correctly. Erred on the side of the caution this week only answering 6, with only 1 not 100% certain (Frisbee = toy first called Pluto Platter when invented in 1958). We swerved C-wealth Games Men's 100m record holder (Ben Johnson 9.88s), Who hit Achilles heel with an arrow (can't remember but not anyone that we considered), a question where the answer was 'Doctor's Orders', and what gift is traditionally given for a 20th wedding anniversary (China). Me and Mrs O reach 16 next week, which I believe is Watermelon.

- Music Round: 20 out of 20, I'm disappointed you even ask.  

We weren't that close, Johnny & The Moondogs got 8 in the jeopardy and one would assume more Current Affairs than us.

It took me a while to remember why my crib sheet had 'Psyche - Goodbye Horses' written in Kev's fair hand on it, but having checked it out I have to say that the 'Immortality Mix' is my favourite. For my part can I recommend a ska tune called Swing It Easy by the Soul Vendors, Johnny Vaughan uses it for background on his Talk Sport show and it's got right in my head. Dub version is pretty good too.   

*(I began recording this phenomonen three weeks ago). 

posted by kevster on behalf of G-Hound