Snow Bound Hound

Making our way through the snow this week, the team looked something like:

Or maybe not but an excuse to show cute dogs.

We were numerically disadvantaged against the other teams with just Graham and myself so we needed the questions to go our way. Instead we got this.

Now Graham's knowledge of car badges is almost as bad as mine and the amount of writing on the sheet gives a clue as to what we knew, and one of those was wrong. Eventually we struggled to a score just under what a ten year old might get on his own with Graham managing to get Pontiac from somewhere.

So back of the field after the first fence, we had some catching up to do. Well we bagged it was Norway turning off their FM signals and Japanese hackers were stealing fingerprints from social media sites but thought a camel and not a snake had grounded a plane from Oman and the Russians not the Chinese were introducing a cut-off year of birth for a legal ban on tobacco so still back of the field probably.

A cheer from Graham greeted the announcement that the next round was geography and a perfect 20 resulted, with last year's canoeing holiday reminding us that Hereford is the only city on the River Wye.

Onto connections and we moved even further onto home territory. Answers such as Alexander Armstrong, Eric Idle, Sir IanMcKellen were all a bit posh and a bit intellectual and we were on the right track quickly. It possibly is the first connection round that I could have been a part of so no excuses there.

Ten pointers and we picked up one over the Anoraks here by knowing Anna-Frid from Abba was Norwegian, think they went for Denmark and we finished the first in a lot healthier position than we started it. Cue sustaining cheese based snacks.

Onto link-ups and for once we didn't need too much back-solving to join up the chains, on question 10 we needed to link "Delphi" back to "Opaque". Graham had gone with Idaho and myself Indigo. 6th colour of the rainbow! Hurrah!

Now onto the Jeopardy, we'd obviously dropped marks on the car round but pulled back on the ten pointers. The consensus was an un-gettable jeopardy round would probably suit us today. "Who played the station master in the Railway Children" was indeed that question, at least for us. It did Graham a chance to mention Jenny Agutter's performance more times than is probably healthy so...

The girl on Jenny's left anyone? Other than that question, a relatively confident nine.

Onto music and Gerry excelled himself this week, nothing after about 1986 but that's when music stopped in reality. So the marks, King Kong Balls, Busters and LATT well off the pace, Anoraks 149, Hound 152! Back to back wins from a frankly dreadful start. One for the diaries, Scout quiz on the 11th March, probably the Saturday before Cheltenham. Lets finish with a picture from Hound Towers.