Surround Hound

A full house this week, the Umbrella contingent definitely needed a break from all the goings on. Topics for the week:

Quizup timeline - Recommended to all and sundry.

The adventures of Stevie G - Seemed like the TV was stuck on the Gerrard channel, fine player and all that but really worth all the coverage?

Graham was unavoidably detained - We naturally assumed at her Majesty's pleasure. Would he make bail in time?

Emma - Enough said already.

Onto the business of the night and we kicked off with 10 foreheads to identify. Can't actually remember how successful we were, we mistook Jose Mourinho for George Clooney, he'd like that, think Cilla Black was also mistaken for David Bowie, maybe less so.

Next up was Current Affairs. The $150m Women of Algiers were there as was "Have a fumble and felch". Not quite sure of the context here but suggest Emma may well have featured large. Around about now Graham turned up, slightly breathless with Julie from the Lady and the Tramp. Maybe it wasn't Her Majesty? Hopefully here follows a picture of Peterkins.

The next round was Frenchie stuff. Now apparently there are more Frenchies in London than, well, most of France. Think it was one Boris trotted out for the election, the sixth largest French city. Odds are one of us is French. Of the questions posed, my favourite was "What did the French give to the USA?" with multi choice options:

Onions on a piece of string
Syphilis
A false impression of courage

Of course it was the Statue of Liberty. Also in there was the 14th century home of popes, Avingnon apparently.

Connections followed and apparently someone is really uncomfortable with John Humphreys hosting Mastermind - it may have been Kevster's mum. Anyhow, that answer alone was enough to point me to "Are You Being Served" which subsequent answers of MASH, Mark Goldberg and Caroline Lucas subsequently confirmed, though I'm still not sure how.

Ten pointers and we came up trumps here; the decider was the McIlhenny's & Co product which Steve picked out as Tabasco sauce. We felt at half time it was ours to lose. Prophetic? Usually.

Next one up was one to ten, I can't remember of the questions but no "hard maths" was involved, more of questions featuring one, two etc. Maybe it's time for a picture.

Poppies. Didn't Kevster plant one or something?

Next up, the jeopardy. Now Siobhan hasn't tossed any banana skins in recently and so it continued. That Norman Tebbitt was the skinhead of Chingford was news to me, Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in 1973 less so to Graham. What Guru Nanak founded in around 1500 was news to all of us, maybe with more endeavour we could have worked it out, for some reason though, the endeavour wasn't quite there.

Music and some good stuff again including, and I'm going to queue it up "Push The Button". Also we had Subterranean
Homesick Blues, Reach, Blue Monday to name but four.

Slightly out of synch as I've just found the notes, I have some number answers, so 9 Muses, Three Sisters, 10 commandments written on two tablets of stone, that sort of thing. No idea on chocolate question and in the final analysis we were pipped by The Anoraks. No hardship though, we've been on a good trot lately.

As Daren subsequently commented, a slightly strange night but we're in strange times. The last three weeks have progressed at a snail's pace, let's hope for some clarity when we next convene.