Two Few Hounds

Just me and Daren this week. Louis asking the questions, and Siobhan competing as part of the Busters. A good turn out with 8 teams, mostly with 4,5 or 6 members. Including a new team of even youngersters, I would have seriously checked their ID if serving them beer. One of our team labelled them 'The Nerds', a bit unfair on reflection, but they did seem disappointed that the 'Anoraks' moniker had already been taken.

Terrible black and white photos of comedians in the 1st round, we missed Frank Carson (blurred close-up of only part of his face) and Victoria Wood (Louis had to tell all of us that the photo was of a female).

More sport than usual in the Current Affairs round, although this did include having to name the Man of the Match in the Soccer Aid game (Mark Wright), and knowing that Gary Neville was sent out of the England Euros camp to get some prawns. Also included my new favourite question, the upshot of which was that Sainsbury's shares have fallen by 0.8% in the last 3 months. How did I miss that bombshell! Didn't know the one about the 9ft inflatable poo stolen from an unpronounceable (by Louis anyway) Spanish resort either.



TV & Films next, 9 out of 10 scored. Daren pulled a couple out of the bag, notably recognising the character names from 2.4 children, and knowing that Craig Phillips was the first Big Brother winner. I contributed the answer to the Fatty Arbuckle custard pie question. We missed Barry Allen's alter ego which is The Flash. Louis did an almost impeccable impression of Blofeld in Goldfinger during this round (ok I'm lying, it was pants).



We were all over the Connections round, including some classic backfilling. Two sets of 5 with the connections being Penguins and Magic Roundabout. Followed up with all 3 ten pointers, don't think many got the Killer Whale/Orca as the largest species of dolphin, so pretty sure we were in front at the half-way stage. I also felt obliged to correct Louis on one of the questions. My Ding-A-Ling was never  banned by the BBC, though Mary Whitehouse did request that they do this.



20 anagrams of groups/solo artists started the second half, the idea being that we could puzzle over them whilst Louis was marking.  To give a flavour the easiest was perhaps 'TEW TEW TEW', the most difficult for us definitely 'SINGULAR MOTORS'. A bystander told us the answer to that one, the rest we deciphered correctly.



The Jeopardy round was where we fell out of the reckoning, ultimately finishing 4th, ahead of the Anoraks though who like us bombed out here. We only answered nine, two of them wrongly with badly educated guesses. I was all for answering the 10th question as well, but we would have got that wrong too. For the record, Spanish postboxes are yellow, we managed to talk ourselves into a bear trap on this one, crossing out yellow in favour of white. Russell Crowe appeared in 'Neighbours', contrary to my fallible logic that it was probably 'Home and Away', there were really no other possible answers. Neither of us knew that Lada make the 'Samara' model, Toyota was the gut instinct of both of us, but the doubt was sufficient for us to leave it out. We would have needed all 3 to beat Alan's team who got all ten.

20 TV theme tunes for the music round. Our success was patchy, I was happy to get Mad Men, but left most of the rest for Daren who struggled manfully getting a fair few. Jollity was by now firmly in the air, ensuing in a raucous version of the Hawaii 5-0 theme by all present, and I think the A-Team one as well.

At the end, we apologized for our behaviour should we turn up next Thursday. Good to get that in early.

G-Force