Acid Hound

Later than normal start this week. Two of BPA's true stalwarts retire today and Graham and myself wanted to hold something back to celebrate the occasion. As we arrived the Manchester derby was kicking off, no doubt explaining Daren's absence while work commitments claimed the other two. Ah, the memories...

So without much pre quiz chit-chat to report on, straight to it with pictures.

Don't be fooled by that cute looking character as number one; it was one of her sort that bit me the other day in Banstead Woods. Other than that, the only one that vexed us for a while was 5 until Graham identified him, the lack of glasses and a lightning bolt scar fooling no-one.

Onto current affairs and dare I say it, a bit less batty than normal. I was surprised that Boris called this fellow a mutton-headed old mugwump though on research, he did say that's what he wasn't.

Jeremy

Round 3 - questions about music. Fairly steady bowling for us, though that old bear trap of the group that named themselves after their financial situation in 1977 nearly tripped us up, well me anyway.

Note, not UB40!

Connections. Made a bit of a horse's ass out of this. We had Clive Allen, Tiger, Zeus, Buster and Bijou with confidence and a few others but no common thread. Some sort of sexual performance aid wandered through my mind but we settled on frogs and toads. It was neither.

A tiger, grr!

Ten pointers - 2 out of 3, probably about par, we failed to realise that Scrubs is set in Seattle, though on reaearch the internet isn't too sure about that either. Was it any good? Just too many of those medical dramas around.

Here's the Scrubs gang.

Sandwiches were particularly good this week.

Onto the link-ups and we needed to wait for number 10 to realise that the Joshua Tree National Park is in California. Probably the size of Wales. Otherwise "Mortadella" was a good shout and something that would go down great right now.

Jeopardy and the overall feeling was "steady as she goes". However all was going serenely, Graham identified the location of the Peterloo massacre, though I'd question whether around 15 deaths is really a massacre? Which reminds me of the, maybe apocryphal, story about Napoleon. He was complaining about his sore throat when a captain rushed to his quarters asking what do with the 1,200 Turkish prisoners. "Ma sacré toux!" was his response. So they did. Now that's a massacre.

I digress. So who did John Francis try to assassinate in 1842. Well we didn't have a clue but given the date... But we left it.

Music and true to form we didn't have a clue about a Bruno Mars song. So we at least know what he looks like.

Bruno

Well, would our omission prove costly? Well yes, LATT bagged the jeopardy and we needed to do the same to beat them. However we hadn't got the right answer on who played Tinkerbell in Hook. No "if only allowed"

Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell. Kylie would have done a good job though. And it was Queen Victoria he tried to kill, twice actually.

So no success but good to see LATT win, their first for a while. Right, I can go down the pub now.