Round 1 was pictures and topically with the Open on in the background they were all golfers. Let's see if the picture thing works.
Nope so I'll talk it through. They were easy enough but all of a certain vintage, Faldo, Sevvy, Woosnam etc. Where were the players of today, the Spieths, the Watsons and the Roses? In fact, in this era of equality in sport, where was Inbee Park, Park Ji Sung, Se Ri Pak? Definitely wouldn't have got 10 there.
Next up and in place of current affairs we had two mini "pointless" style rounds. Name a 5 letter word ending in ICY or a country with a J in it, that sort of thing. Fun but probably more Moeen Ali than Mitchell Johnson so not much of a differentiator.
Third round was geograpghy, mountains, deserts, cities, oceans, lakes and rivers. Right up the alley of those Quiz Up regulars, I think we debated which continent had most tornadoes before settling on North America.
Connections and which is the main breed of Welsh corgi after Pembroke had already exhausted our knowledge stores on Welsh corgis but a few other answers gave us the connection of "Bays", 314, 309, pig, that sort of thing, and we backsolved to Cardigan. Can't beat a bit of backsolving. Still didn't get the oatmeal and treacle cake made in Yorkshire.
10 pointers and what was Louis Washansky famous for in 1967? The year was the clue but dashed if we knew it. We went for an unconvincing murder of a Kennedy. Turns out, having googled him he was the first heart transplant recipient. Didn't do the fella much good though, other than his place in history, it only bought him a few more weeks. We did speculate, given the location, whether there had been a few less documented experimental procedures. Other answers were the writers of the scouse anthem, Rogers and Hammerstein and another answer I've only got written down as "rabbit".
Refreshed by wotsits and twiglets the round after the break was G-Force with a g style connection. Haven't made a lot of notes here but Givenchy, Gandhi and Galaxy featured. Probably.
Jeopardy and the pre round note and guiding principle would be "straight bat". Where is the Serengeti, we thought more Tanzania than Kenya, who was on a £50 note, we thought Wren and what is the middle part of an insect's body, some really quite intricate diagrams led us to thorax.
Now, which ground in London other than Wembley was used in the 1966 World Cup? Without hesitation Graham plumped for White City and the only blank on our card was the number of pips in the Greenwich time signal. I thought 6 but without confidence and remembering our watchword, it stayed blank. Had we done enough?
Last two rounds, very much a blur and onto the scores. Hound 149! Sadly trumped by Lady and the Tramp 153, Busters 176 and Anoraks 178. Even a complete jeopardy wouldn't have been enough without Louis. Ah well, always next week.
One for your Sunday afternoon folks.
ReplyDeleteCrikey- some big scores there
ReplyDelete... and a truly remarkable short film to round it off.
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