Cheese Loving Hound

News from the team this week; Daren's picture has arrived from New Zealand, Graham has located the water source in his garden and my mother will be visiting. We don't really get up to much.

Pictures were "G" items, grapes, guitar, you get the idea. Very much a gentle warm up.Again, no current affairs this week on the quite reasonable grounds that there wasn't much. So "name the year" of various events. Those tripping us up were the first National Lottery draw and Concorde's last flight. Both quite recent but not that momentous. We weren't really close.

Concorde. Really is quite a lovely thing.

Next round was science. Pleasing naturally but I stumbled over the first in not recognising Newton's Law of universal gravitation, ah, the shame. We got on track though, recognising the small intestine is longer than the large one and that we should have 32 teeth but failing on the pistil rather than anther being the female part of a flower.

Connections jumped out quite quickly, answers such as Flash Gordon, The Tide is High and Aerial leaving us nowhere else to go. Still didn't get the Death card in a pack of playing cards or Jan & Dean's number one though - although we were close.

The only card you need.

Ten pointers reasonably dispatched and a draw of breath at halfway. Snacks were chicken nuggets and entertainment was from the US Open golf.

Here's the Erin Hills card. Safe to say they'll be off the blacks. 7800 yards! That could well be further than I go on my holidays.

I digress, back to the quiz and those chain letters. Alcatraz was linked with Zloty which followed on to Ypres and it all linked back to consommé. Which was nice.

Jepoardy kicked off in fairly gentle fashion but it took a real team effort to nail Klaus Barbie as the Butcher of Lyon, which is probably what it took in reality. Now we had only one blank, what is a turophile? This could be critical, entomology and etymology were used to their maximum effects but we weren't getting there. It was with a heavy heart that we left it blank.

One gap in the music was followed by a rare Hound win on the nearest the pin round (what is SCRABBLE worth in Scrabble)? We expected a high scoring contest and the lowest score was 123. The highest? Hound with 159! Turophile, well the blog title gave it away didn't it?

Until next week, but apologies from me, out of the area.

Call Us What You Like, Hound!

A few drinks with the boys uptown, and back to the PA during the picture round to join a lonesome Robson...

All pictures beginning with F, we failed to identify a close-up of a flip-flop. A straw poll of 3 at home and they all get it within a few seconds. We got fennel though far from sure.

No written record of Round 2 exists in any known archives, not even sure if we had a current affairs round? We got 7 out of 10 is all I can ascertain.

Rd 3: Politics. 5000 was our only incorrect answer, I think it referred to lost deposits and should have been 500. Father was a trapeze artist, female speaker, first PM, Tory Chelsea fan, that kind of standard quiz question.

Connections  were all terms for prison, we only got it fairly late but considered drugs based on fix and Rock at first. Cage, Nick, Bird etc sorted it out..

2 out of 3 ten pointers but nobody admits to getting Oliver McCall as vanquished by Frank Bruno in 1995 for a world heavyweight title. We proposed Bonecrusher Smith.

A full bag for the chain letters round, working hard to get Ryan's DaughteR (John Mills oscar winning film), and SucculenT (something to do with water absorbing trees).

The first question in the Jeopardy round ensured that we weren't playing for the bonus points. What American Art Nouveau designer was famous for his stained glass works and lamps? We only left one other out but seems unlikely that anyone will get ten.

Music generally well within our comfort zone, think I identified the wrong Ronettes song, and we mistook Eminem for something completely different.

Siobhan reveals that someone has indeed got all 10 for the Jeopardy. The usual reverse order sees all our principal competitors come below us in our creditable second place. Wait a minute, she hasn't mentioned "Call Us What You Like". The young 'uns with two more mature guests, only a couple of weeks married, eschew tradition to top the heap. Surely someone's mum their mystery 4th member will be asked back after this stunning debut. A more than popular result in the house with all teams.

Tiffany was the US designer, yes I have heard of the lamps.

Boisterous Hound

Firstly, all the best to regular quiz-mistress Siobhan, struck down with a yet unknown ailment. In her place, "Brother" Louie brought his own brand of running proceedings to the night. Steve and G-Force were off on European holidays, if they were looking for better weather, they'd have done well to find it as a glorious day. Boost up some of those slacking Euro cousins on the blog stats guys.

Right, almost inevitably with Louie we kick off with something Disney like or that sort of thing. This week, cartoon characters e.g.

Green Lantern. Daren picked up this particular ball and took it pretty much to the end zone.

Next up, a not too challenging general knowledge round. No point looking for hidden demons here, the first commercial monorail was indeed Japan and the J in JRR Tolkien stands for John. Next up, names of dogs. Names note, rather than breeds so the dogs in Oliver Twist, Blue Peter, Famous 5 etc. We wouldn't really be doing justice to the team name if we didn't get ten here.

Timmy the dog. I've always pictured him as a golden lab but how wrong can you be?

Louie continued to mess with our heads by making Food and Drink round 4. Not too much around the ears here and I think another ten, our old friend the Harvey Wallbanger making an appearance. He did stick to form with the ten pointers though, the only one really vexing us being the Queen's job in WWII. We'd put ambulance driver, t'internet says truck driver but I think this is pretty conclusive. Think any sort of driver got the points.

HRH

The next round was the connections. Well, they were clearly all films but what links Blade, Austin Powers, Alien, Naked Gun.... They all spawned trilogies, credit again to D2 for that one.

The jeopardy required some careful treading and that's what it got from us. 41 in Roman Numerals, the official language of Iran and a definition of conchology? I think with a gun to our collective heads we get them all but enough doubt existed for discretion to prevail.

Can't remember much of the music, oh, I'll throw this picture in for Graham to try and name?

And that gents, was that. Outcome? A win by a cosy ten points or so, the jeopardy proving beyond everybody (Note to all, I picked up the £50 and will probably spend it at the races today so don't let me get away with that).

Those answers? XLI, Persian and the study of shells. But you knew that.

Adios