Knights of the Hound Table

In 1977 who was the first fashion designer to be knighted?  We opted for Terence Conran, but he didn't feel the queen's sword (not a double entendre or euphemism for anything, but probably should be) until 1983. Norman Hartnell would have been worth ten points and won the quiz for us, but sadly we didn't know it.

3 hounds this week, Daren was back from his adventures in Madchester, and an intervention on the way home. Steve waylaid by work we think this time, Spurs weren't even playing. Robson is all in a quandary about his lighting requirements at home. My anagram of the week is Dragon's Knob (think England '66 goalkeeper). Early kick-off at 6 pm, more of which later.

Round 1: Famous logos, or in many cases partial famous logos (and some partially famous I thought).

We didn't get 02 Converse, 05 Hot Wheels or 07 Nickelodoen (excuse the fingers, I'm learning all the time).

 

I preferred 'FOPP' for 07 which I think looks closer than Nickelodeon. However, rightly denied on the grounds of not being famous.




Not much to say about the current affairs round, which is pretty much all I had on the night. Peter Rabbit is to appear in colour on a new 50p coin, Nicole Scherzinger is to appear in a remake of Dirty Dancing, potential indian military recruits had to appear in their underwear to sit a written examination, and it appears that we didn't even know what won the best picture Oscar. Schoolboy quizzing error, it was 'Spotlight' not 'The Revenant'.

Food & Drink was better but we failed to identify certain Spanish fruit varieties, and Kimchi is Korean not Japanese.

Biscuits was the connection today, Empire were my favourites of the ones on offer. Lincoln, Ginger, Bourbon, Nice etc. also featured.




Got the other two ten pointers, but Sir Norman Hartnell was to prove one of our undoings as alluded to above.



Good teamwork to get Ruth & Esther as the two old testament books named after females. Robson also recognised Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny.

The 'First letter of each answer corresponds to the final letter of the previous answer' round as I am snappingly titling it is now a regular 2nd half opener. Sounds more like a Two Ronnies sketch I know. Answers as follows, for some we needed the first/last letter thing to get them correct.

wizard of wishaW
Who let the dogs ouT
Tony BlaiR
Rainbow warrioR
RabaT
Timothy spalL
LaszlO
OxymoroN
Never say diE
Equatorial guinea.

2 more African geography related questions, candy from a baby.

Good News is that we never blew the Jeopardy round, this having a lot to do with the fact that we only answered 3 questions. This at least is more than the Anoraks managed, placing as they did Catalan Dragons in Spain. On sober reflection, I have a theory that this had something to with the early start, drunkenness is the best excuse I can come up with for not getting Harlem as the Dutch related area of New York, not getting Graham Chapman as Brian in 'The Life of...', and not getting France as the correct home of Catalan Dragons. Siobhan had us second by 3 points, I made it even closer, so it wouldn't have needed much. I suspect that Steve would have been familiar with Oswald Cobblepot (The Penguin in Batman), and quite possibly a few others. Hey-ho.

Aced the music, all correct on the first listen, but not quite enough. The team of 6 blokes behind us won, can't even remember their team name. Steve Jefferies and Alan Thingy are amongst their six.

As an aside, we got full marks on The Anorak's quiz from the previous night, maybe we were just in the wrong place at the wrong time! 5 UK racecourses starting with S anyone?

G-Force