Two Hounds Are Better than One

One more Hound than last week, but lack of numbers (namely those who drink numbers) does put us up against it from the start. Can't be helped, and important to keep the Hound flag flying in the meantime.



Some early upsets. Liverpool are 2-0 down in just 9 minutes. Robson arrives with a stomach upset and can only manage blackcurrant & soda all night. My first pint of Guinness was also upset, prompting a wag in overalls at the next table to comment that he had never seen anyone quite so clumsy one moment only to react like lightning in order to save his precious I-pad from a dousing, Plenty of collateral damage though. 

Dingbats instead of pictures against this week. Set 4 at the following link, first 10 only. We only missed number 1;

 http://www.quizmasters.biz/DB/Pic/Dingbats/Dingbats.html

5 out of 10 for the current affairs, probably par for the course in the circumstances. To be fair they were mainly proper news items this week, about politicians, airlines, paintings and the like. Oh, and some Welsh Doris was prevented by the courts from calling her newly born twins Preacher and Cyanide.

Entertainment round not too taxing. Kicked myself for not remembering that 'Yes we can!' featured in Bob The Builder. Bear trap caught us out, Nicole Kidman was born in USA (Honolulu), not Australia.

Double connections round, 5 questions each. We got bags (Gladstone, Clutch, Shoulder, Carrier) but not airports (Konrad Adeneur, Louis Armstrong, John Lennon, Charles de Gaulle). We made the question with the answer clutch seem way harder than it actually was.

One film/musical each in the ten pointers, A Few Good Men (Robson) and Paint Your Wagon (me). A good educated guess got Mecca for the third question. Still in the running at half way, with the knowledge that the Anoraks missed one ten pointer.

    

Chain letters round more difficult than usual this week and we missed 3 in the row in the middle due partly to the 'knock-on' effect. Should have been Eiffel toweR, RavenS and StinG, we put Empire State BuildinG, GuardS and S---G. Back on track after that. If anyone is even remotely interested in how the two characters pictured above  featured in the same question, then just ask. Footnote for Robson, shrapnel was in fact correct!

Onto Jeopardy. Pamplona, Countdown, Winnie-the-Pooh, Bird flu, Greece, JR Hartley, Ministry of Sound, Jamboree, Stephen (Morrissey) and Paul Gascoigne, all very gettable. Except nobody else did get them all, the Anoraks for instance crashed and burned on the record label founded in Elephant & Castle. Our full house was good enough to win £50 with no real scares (apart from bird flu).

  
 

Only 15 out of 20 on the music. I dragged out Jimmy Cliff from almost nowhere but wrong song. Taylor Swift - Blank Space anyone? We went for Alanis Morrisette. No wiser abut Zara Larsson - Lush Life.

Exit Robson before even the scores are totted up, his sick bed beckoning. A 9 point gap to the Busters with the Anoraks 21 points further back. Kevster's favourite Anorak seemed peeved that they could have won had they got A Few Good men and Ministry of Sound correct. But they didn't, and simply leaving MoS question blank would still have seen us 2 points ahead.

Enjoyed last Tuesday at Daren's. Look forward to the next gathering of Hounds.

G-Force