A Feast For Hounds

R, D & G present, late call-off by S stuck in the office. Felt like we were all at sea on the picture round this week. Celebrity couples kissing. However, some inspired guesswork and others struggling as well may have meant not too much damage done.

Current Affairs this week, q about political correctness by London Underground seemed to slip through our hands, but on reflection I think S marked us right anyway. Arizona has run out of cannabis soon after legalising it, and one other eluded us.

Round 3 is vegetables, D quickly making this round his own. Mushrooms can grow in the dark (not really veg we thought), and S's recipe for gumbo differs from D's. We went for celery as the principal veg, answer given was okra. Apparently the Cajun holy trinity of veg is onion, celery and green bell pepper. Okra looks to be further down in the recipes I looked at. Cavolo Nero and Daikon were correctly identified as cabbage and radish respectively.

R got the connection straight away, units of measurement starting with the League of Nations. Good knitting knowledge from D. Otherwise fairly easy.

I only knew 1 of the 10 pointers initially though once D said Sea Parrot was another name for the puffin I knew that I had heard this more than once previously. D on fire by now completed the (well-known?) saying "Enough is as good as a ........  Feast".

Chain letters round was geography heavy as usual, but also included the James Bolam sitcom "Only When I Laugh".

Mood in the team is to go for the jeapordy round if at all possible, with the Anoraks doing similarly. Q2 turns out to be the key, with Anoraks not knowing that the Manhattan cop on a horse played by Dennis Weaver was McCloud. Not to say the rest was by any means easy, an educated guess that David Ivan Davies was the real name of Ivor Novello, and a tortuous process of elimination to confirm that Podgorica is the capital of Montenegro.

Music round was aced, R identifying a Lionel Richie song the best get.

We've scored a perfect second half before, but this time the run started with the connections round, 130 out of 130 thereafter. No wonder then that our winning margin was sizeable, although McCloud would have made it very close with The Anoraks, who invented a TV detective called Hooper.

Advance warning for September, day out planned to Fontwell on Sun 10, P is 50 later in the month so could double as beano for him. Open house at D's on Sat 16 for those not going to Millwall/Leeds that day. Holding out for an early kick-off on police orders.

G-Force