Hydroponic Hound

There are those amongst you who probably wouldn't put it past me to claim that we only lost because I forgot my specs. Not so. I never forgot them, they were in my coat pocket all of the time. Anyway, my assistance wasn't really required for the pictures, manually altered film posters. 

A near maximum in the current affairs round, just missing John Key as the new NZ PM. Similarly on the British sitcoms round, we missed only Tyler as Boycey and Marlene's kid in Only Fools and Horses. As expected, Mrs O got one this before I had even finished asking the question.

Connections were airports as follows;

James Stewart - Indiana County, Pennysylvania
Yuri Gagarin - Namibe, Angola.
John Wayne - Santa Ana, California
Cristiano Ronaldo - Santa Cruz, Madeira
Pope John Paul II - Krakow-Belice
Louis Armstrong - New Orleans
Ronald Reagan - Washington
Alexander the Great - Skopje, Macedonia
Frederic Chopin - Warsaw

How did we not get that connection? First 8 answers correct anyway. No further drama with the ten-pointers.

Half-time report: Cameo from Kevster around the mid-quiz break. Daren is keeping himself busy, mostly baking cakes to help pass the time. Our sloe gin has become slow gin and won't be ready until well into the New Year. Steve mysteriously disappeared for quite a while, could it be love? I still bemoaned my "missing" spectacles. Someone hilariously hid D's phone in a Quavers packet, and one of the opposition looked like a house-elf in seasonal knitwear.

                  

Quite a lot of backfilling in the chain letters round but we got there. Hearts, Eclipse, Offenbach and High Chaparral proving to be the trickier ones.

Busters "did" the Jeopardy round to win. We left two out but got the other eight correct, including Joe 90 as the Gerry Anderson creation that worked for WIN, which put paid to the Anoraks hopes (they went for Captain Scarlett). We didn't know that Suzuki make the Gran Vitara, and myositis is also known as 'forget-me-not'. Missed two in the music round, a score of 154 out of 170 (excluding Jeopardy bonus) represents a good night's work, but not good enough. I leave you with an artist's impression of what Daren's cakes might look like;

 

   
The Hound gathering on the 22nd will now be closer to home than originally anticipated, Carshalton seems popular. Apparently Christmas jumpers are suggested for next week's quiz. Up to the individual I guess.

G-Force