7D9CAF928C (all upper case) Hounds

In the week that Melvin Odoom was knocked out of Strictly, there was some great quizzing to be had.

Pre fight talk was sporadic but a couple of points of interest were;
> Possible driving bans
> Venues for the 'Hound 12 days of Christmas' pub crawl

Also, one in three hounds were presented with a Tom Odell t-shirt in a Barcelona FC club shop bag. You couldn't make it up and quite frankly, why would you want to?

Ding ding- Round One
There should be a picture of the 10 caricatures that constituted the picture round but I can't upload it for some reason so I'll have to describe it,
Number 1 vexed us the most, a side on view of someone with a potato for a head, wearing a monocle and a black, leather, military coat and brandishing a Kalashnikov. Our first answer was Goebels, which was changed to Samuel L Jackson and turned out to be Lawrence Fishburne. Number 4 could have been Bono but, thankfully Robin had a revelation that it was actually Carrie Ann Moss and Nigel Farage turned out to be Colin Powell, who knew?
We all agreed that the problem here was down to quality of the caricature as much as it was our ability to identify the subject. 7/10

Round 2 - current affairs - although the answers are a pretty rum bunch;
Article 50,  Hurricane Matthew, Gordon Ramsey, Diane James, Scouse Cod, Rob Bradley, Rodrigo Duterte etc.

Round 3 - TV and films (accompanied with Graham's constant mantra of "if only Steve was here") As it turned out,it was a pretty straightforward round with the only question requiring any serious discourse being 'who won the Oscar for Godfather II'? We all knew it was RdN but nevertheless we felt it worthwhile to argue about for a while (Graham claiming not to have heard the 2 bit).

Connections - this pretty much came down the fact that I knew the old saying 'half a pint of peas and half a pint more'. We had the answers Alaska, snowfall, Lincoln etc suggesting it was some sort of fruit or vegetable so the answer to 'what imperial measurement is equal to 232 mils proved to be the key.

10 pointers we got them all, Kirsty Young, Hamlet and Status Quo being this week'"s unlikely combination.

So, we felt we were sitting fairly pretty going into the second round (insert majestic, crescendo building music here)

Link up - Genesis, Smallville, Erwin, Napa, Abel, Lesotho, Osaka, Apricot, Tetras, Spelunking
A clean sweep for hound and we could hear that other teams had struggled at the Napa Valley question. Great knowledge from G-Force on his spelunking.

Jeopardy
Who won the boxing gold medal at the '68 olympics was to prove to be the knock out blow for Hound. Having managed to get Gerrymandering from our collective Blakadder knowledge we were confident with 9 answers. Was it Frazier or Foreman?

Music round was pretty straightforward so it was just a wait for the answers and scores.
If we had got the full jeopardy round we would finish in first place with 174 points. If the'68 Gold medal had been won by Foreman, we would finish 4th on 134 points and King Kong Balls would win with 168.

The End