Hound, As Leeds Lose. Oh What EvEr Next?

 

Same team as for Saturday's away draw with Bolton. Sombrero Steve's first home match in charge, looking for a home win for the first time in nearly 8 months. Could there really be cause for optim... No!, didn't even notice that they had kicked off and Blackburn are ahead after 17  seconds. Worse news that Rhodes didn't score it, his customary goal yet to come, oh there it is 5 minutes in. Maybe I won't be quite so distracted as I thought from the quiz. Can't hear what the Elland Road crowd are singing, but imagine that both the Italian and the Scot are squirming in their seats. Definitely wouldn't trust the Scot near my pie and chips, and don't trust him near my team either. Surprisingly little abuse for me, decked out like a Christmas tree, from the resident Chelsea contingent. Sadly, they probably find Leeds underperforming (a euphemism if ever there was one) almost as predictable as I do.

First half of the quiz was heavily Halloween themed. We got all of the horror films in the pictures round, except for incorrectly naming 'Child's Play' as 'Chucky'.  Poor Current Affairs round, not knowing the name of a gun toting dog, venue of the Bond premiere, the former occupation of Jimmy Morales now Guatemalan president, or which foul mouthed actress said something or other. Answers were Barbara Windsor, TV comic, Trigger and the Royal Albert Hall, though not necessarily in that order. Missed two in the vaguely Halloween related round, decent effort.

All of 1-9 answered correctly in the connections round, but 3 bewildered faces as we sought to even find a connection for any chosen 3. The answer was staring us in the face, though Robson rather weakly claimed it was more difficult upside down, don't stand on your head I say. We now have to add checking for acronyms to the golden rules of the connections round, after considering that they all have a birthday today, or all relate to some specific kind of flora (we went for daffodils, don't think that this will even enable you to guess one of the answers), etc. See if you can get from the following list (see also Blog title).

Heptagon
Adele
Little Women
Life of Pi
Orang-Utan
When Harry Met Sally
Eagle
Elle McPherson
Norwich City

To be fair, only the young uns with their accompanying elder actually got it right.

Missed Templeton Peck in the 10 pointers, look it up yourself.

Second half (no, we are not still discussing the football). Ten answers starting with 'T', including tenuously 'The Nineties', at least Siobhan apologised for this liberty. An apology regarding the question itself would probably have been appropriate as well, a quick google comes up with the dates of 1887, 1913 and 1848 for Trafalgar Square riots  ahead of any mention of 1990 which to my mind is much better known as the Poll Tax riots and was far more widespread than just Trafalgar Square. We put the 1910's, so surely worth a picture of that year's shenanigans.

 


Bit peeved not to get 'Twelve Oaks' as the Wilkes plantation in 'Gone With The Wind', but bad luck that the other plantation 'Tara' starts with a 'T' as well (or one could argue a well laid bear trap). I would also  question whether Ipswich town are really nicknamed 'The Tractor Boys', but I guess it is in common usage. Ooh Arrrr!

It seems like the Jeopardy round has been beefed up since 3-4 teams nailed it on a couple of occasions. We only answered 5 this week and were still indebted to generous marking after mis-stating 'A Beautiful Mind' as 'A Brilliant Mind' - Daren being the first to point out that this was more closely related to an eighties classic by Furniture, than it was to a book/film about a mathematical genius.

Ones we missed were;

McCarron Airport - Las Vegas
Indy 500 celebration drink - Milk
Alfred Jingle - Pickwick Papers.
Bishop's hooked staff - Crosier.
Louis Reard 1946 invention - Bikini

Disappointed not to get the Dickens Q, but did manage to narrow it down to 4 one of which was the correct answer. Not worth gambling, far too much guesswork required.


Usual story in the music round, only missed P!nk's song and one other by I can't remember who. Hang on, I also have a vague remembrance of Adele being mistaken for Will Young? With a low score of 126 maybe we deserved to lose by 2 points on this occasion. Robson predicted a second place finish very early on, a self-fulfilling prophecy or just not good enough? The latter I fear.     

G-Hound