Outward Hound

 

An artist's impression of what a hound tent may look like. Probably a bit bigger though for £200+.

4 of us this week, so no excuses based on numbers (except maybe 1664). If you travelled back in time with the knowledge you have now, what would you look to 'invent' for earlier civilisations? I think that we decided we still wouldn't be much help except potentially in a consulting capacity. Blimey! Poland have scored already!

Pictures of mainly retired tennis players. Didn't get Bates or Rusedski, mildly disappointing and a bit sloppy. 6 correct in the current affairs round, reasonably good. We seemed to know that Coldplay had played at Kensington Palace but never gave it a an answer. Always hard to remember which ex soviet state is in the news (Belarus this time imposing some barmy law or other), and wrong side of the S Africa/Botswana border for the big diamond question. Tuesday is the night that the nation collectively sleeps the soundest.

We aced the London round, Mrs O got 7 out of 10 when quizzed later. Ralph McTell and The Clash don't seem to be on her playlists. Remember the iconic cover of the 'London Calling'  LP based on the iconic cover of Elvis' first release?

 

We got all 9 German born men/ladies but not the connection itself. On reflection I knew that Henry Kissinger, Karl Marx, Karl Lagerfeld all fit the (Kaiser) bill, should probably have known Anne of Cleves, Anne Frank, had no idea in the cases of Bruce Willis, Pam Ferris, Martin Lawrence & Levi Strauss.

Longest/Oldest of the 4 bridges crossing the Grand Canal in Venice is the Rialto Bridge. None of us have been there and we came up with The Bridge of Sighs and probably didn't question it enough, but we may not have got the Rialto in 3 minutes anyway. 10 points down for that one, but safe on the (red) Michelin Guide and Black Monday - 1987.

Siobhan narrowly avoided disaster in the Links round by having to google a tenth question. Also scuppered her intention to circularise it. Full marks again.

9 out of 10 on the Jeopardy round, stymied by a clear bear-trap question. Where was Guiseppe Garibaldi born? Not in Italy for sure, turned out to be Nice. Missed Adele and some soul song in the music, and more disappointingly got the wrong Abba title. Sloppy again and defeat by only 2 points. Well done Lady & T. Robson hit a near bullseye in wining the bag of Minstrels, and Man Utd (apparently) won the penalty shootout. Could Portugal become the first team to win a tournament without winning a single game in normal time? I think we should be told.

Bit of channel hopping when I got home brought up 'Women who shoot lions', which was the subject of some earlier discussion led by Daren who had seen it recently. The woman featured in what I saw never went anywhere near Africa, but took grotesque delight in hunting stags, feral goats, rare sheep breeds and a black bear. Had some seriously twisted reasons for doing and enjoying it that seemed to involve animal welfare, I kid you not.  Oh, and her young daughter gets upset when internet trolls threaten to hunt and viciously kill her mum.

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