Well, participants were Steve, Graham and myself and the PA was buzzing more than normal. Payday? Easter Hols? All the same these days to me. First up was dingbats, we got nine, probably should have got ten but our lame attempt at the last one actually proved to be right. So now, I'm trying to do the blog, want the windows open but some fellow is making a noise cutting the grass outside. Problems, problems.
Back to it and current affairs. Ah, Man Down.
Sales in the opening weekend in the UK, £7! Straight to download apparently but released in one cinema in Burnley where one student ticket was sold. What does that say about the film? Or Burnley? Or students?
Round two and the theme would be "Greats". Well we didn't have Catherine, Expectations or Balls of Fire but we did have Bears, Escapes and Ormes?
Virgil Hilts
Connections would be Greek gods; as if having three in our team wasn't enough.
And ten pointers, these would be:
1. What fruit or vegetable is only ever sold fresh?
2. Who was the youngest Walton?
3. What type of animal is a falabella?
Tricksy eh? A bit of research indicated we had twenty odd points less than the Anoraks at this point, virtually needing snookers already.
No question about it, we needed to hitch up both our pants and our game. So link-ups, we were mildly stumped at the only English city beginning with "R", which was actually the question, bit a brain fade from Siobhan there, and this fellow linked Gandhi to sloth.
Icarus, just in case.
So the note I have on Jeopardy is "Gung Ho!". It needed to be, but almost wasn't until, against all odds, this chappie turned it round.
What's he doing now? Well http://www.stevebrookstein.com/forgotten-man shows he at least retains a sense of humour. But of course, he wasn't. The rest of the Jeopardy was almost routine.
Onto music and our hot streak continued, the only one requiring a second listen being these ladies:
Sister Sledge - Thinking of Kevster
Well to recap, the answers to those ten pointers were lettuce, Elizabeth and horse. We had one of them which surely wasn't enough. But the Anoraks had bottled the Jeopardy and two teams had it. With a scorching second half display, Hound had prevailed by around five points.
Glory be, well at least we can't win next week. Happy Easter.
One for your morning coffee.
ReplyDeleteGood write-up. Not our first ever perfect second half but surely one of the great comebacks. Alan's team had two ten pointers and a jeopardy full house, apparently we only forged ahead in the music round.
ReplyDeleteGreat read and congrats to all involved. FWIW I would have gone; Rhubarb, John Boy and Pig, ha ha
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