Slam Dunk Hound

An unusual make up to the team this week. With regulars sidelined from the Hound and LATT, we joined forces with Mike and David. Would this be a match made in heaven or clash of styles? It shall all unfold.

Got to start pre quiz though. The highlight of our respective days was Graham's trip to the Science Museum and my being bitten by a dog in Banstead Woods. Well, hardly a highlight actually, but really irksome. So far, no untoward characteristics have emerged, I think.

Well, we hardly needed help for Round 1, Welshies in honour of St David.

Tim Dalton confused us a bit and Sian Lloyd doesn't bear much resemblance to herself any more but a confident ten.

Usual nonsense in the Current Affairs. In one of the less subtle examples of match fixing, a Bandy (sort of ice hockey) game in Russia ended 11-9 with all 20 goals own goals. That something we can bet on over here?

Onto history and good teamwork here as our LATT contingent chipped in with Mike's encyclopaedic knowledge of UK car plants and David's placing of the first use of "women and children first" to the fore.

Connections and we introduced our newcomers to our game of guessing the connection and it was David who linked the connection of a 1955 Sinatra film to London hospitals in 3. Think we've had this round before.

Ten pointers and what use would a tailor make of a plonker? Bit of chemistry suggesting it might be made of lead but a vacuous answer of weighing down cloth wouldn't be good enough, actually used for ironing the cloth. Well played to Graham though straight in with the common name for Hanson's disease.

Now we have't done this very often but we went well and truly off piste on the connections. Big gaps were linked up with some very unlikely answers and we really had the wrong team for knowing that Simple would be kind to the skin. So, a poor showing there but as ever, jeopardy would be all important.

Teamwork again would be to the fore but the one that vexed us most would be which UK city first introduced a congestion charge in Nov 2002. None of us had a convincing alternative to London, but this smelt to me solely of bear trap. "Wilson" in Castaway wasn't given a second thought, given Mike's certainty of basketball.

Well, we were indeed tripped up on the jeopardy; the city proved to be a bear trap with the answer of Durham but our joy was short lived on learning Wilson was a volleyball. Tension mounted, we knew the Anoraks has similarly blown and the team myself and Graham know a few of the guys from had similarly gone down in flames. Maybe the Busters turn? Score after score was read but the last one read out was Hound! Maybe our first win with a bust jeopardy? Naturally we shared the spoils with Mike and David and partied long into the night, well until the last train anyway.

Running out of pictures to put up so here's one from my holiday. Only ten days to Cheltenham!