Confessions of a Teenage Hound

Thursday night and the Europa league claimed its share of victims. Daren was up in Manchester to see if Man U could turn it around and Steve was observing maybe a tougher task for Tottenham. Maybe next year West Ham are going to join the party and there'll be a whole team out. Little danger of Leeds Utd or Mansfield Town getting there any time soon so Graham and myself should keep a free diary.

Left to ourselves, there was naturally a bit of Quiz Up to be done and we pondered my current moniker "Prepose a la rubriques des chiens ecrases" - plus a few accents I can't type on this. The best we could do on Google translator was "Worker crushed under dogs"? Right in more ways than you could imagine. Daren, this tally with your French knowledge?

Now also Julie of TLATT confirmed the Scout Saturday Quiz will be 14th May so how about launching the 6 in 6 then? Graham had it blocked out in his diary for the Eurovision Song Contest but maybe could be persuaded to watch on catch-up. We're also recommended the Railway in Carshalton for a Monday venue, now we know what happened last time but at least Duncan can't be in two pubs in one night.

OK, the quiz.

We were pleased to bag Bob Beamon without a clue of what he actually looked like. Number 7 eluded us though.

Current affairs and the usual nonsense. Who's adopting the Bitcoin? We thought Norway but actually Japan and which flamboyant singer will get a blue plaque at his house in Feltham? A toss up as it were between John and Mercury; think we actually bagged that one.

Next round and two answers required per question. We did OK, mindful of previous comments, we didn't query the ambiguity in "name England's two longest rivers" and were rewarded with the points.

Connections and about half way in we recognised WW II aircraft, or at least planes. Two out of three on the ten pointers, not a clue on the name of the patient in the game Operation. Anyone?

Refreshed and another round of connections. With a bit of back solving, we got them all but we're foxed by a Japanese gangster, Y.....A. Sadly Yakuza and not Yokazuna proved to be right, I guess wrestlers can be gangsters?.

So the jeopardy. With a team of two, we knew that we were outnumbered so we probably couldn't be too conservative.

We did swerve
- London statue built by Sir Alfred Gilbert
- Ardal O'Hanlan's superhero in My Hero

We should have swerved
- country, other than England with London on the River Thames.

So zero. Answers to follow.

Music, think we got 17.

Hopes weren't high and justifiably so. Even an optimal jeopardy strategy wouldn't have done it. Evidence, if it were needed, that numbers do matter. Still, despondency was short-lived and the red wine end to an evening was resurrected with a lot more success.

Those jeopardy answers:

- Eros
- Thermo Man
- Canada

To next week.