Harwich Hound

Kicking off with some of the wrong answers this week:

Hound Correct

6 weeks - 20 years
Taylor Swift. The London Gay Men's Choir.
Vibrators - Las Vegas Casinos
Suffolk. Essex

Some more plausible than others to be fair.

Daren, Graham and myself formed the team. The atmosphere had been heavy and humid all day, a portent of things to come? I arrived by Ghost Train (not showing on departure boards but turned up anyway). The first quiz challenge to greet us was this:

The caption says it all, usual 7 I think.

On to world events. Now, apparently an elephant has been wandering around Zimbabwe for six weeks with a bullet in its head. We didn't think this newsworthy enough, hence the answer above. All the pub agreed that the elephant would know.

Take That are also to be rejoined by Robbie for the 25th anniversary tour. Graham asked whether they were back for good? Honestly, they just keep on coming.

Also "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is to be remade as an Orlando bombing charity single. Which publicity hungry celebrity would that be then? Or so we thought.

Next up "Flying". A diverse round with Flying in the question or answer. The name of Astaire and Rogers first film vexed us the longest,

Then came connections, answers like Paris, Luxor, New York New York could only mean one thing, in Graham's view, we actually went for the less controversial answer of fragrances. Equally wrong.

Thanks to Daren knowing the colour of Custard was pink, ten pointers were despatched. The Link Ups round just held us up while we confirmed Eric Cantona was the first overseas captain to lift the FA Cup and it was on to jeopardy.

Where was Pope Francis born? Countries of birth are fraught with danger but we were confident enough with Argentina.

Aussie who retired in 2007 with around 560 wickets, clearly pointing to Warne but we picked out McGrath.

In which county is Harwich? Again, alarm bells were raised but a member of the team was 100% on this one. Weirdly, for a while we were right, the question was written as A but Siobhan read out the wrong port. A hurried remark later and it had cost us. Hound second.

In other news, corn tortillas are apparently great, it's sunny out there and all hell is breaking loose in the markets this morning. One of those "Where were you?" days.