Giant Hogweed Hound

In the week that a jogger allegedly pushed someone into a bus lane and a bus crashed into a shop in Clapham it was business as usual on Thursday night with regards to quizzing.

Pre match discussions centred on invasive species (botanical) and the social experiment that is Eden.

Teams were thin on the ground again, to the point that there was some doubt about whether the quiz would actually happen. The Landlord gave the a-ok on the basis that he would join the 'fluid' Busters team.

In another twist, the new team of youngsters unveiled their secret weapon, someone who had appeared on TV's 'The Chase'. Graham didn't recognise him and i'm not entirely sure that appearing on The Chase qualifies someone as a 'weapon'. Oh, hang on, I think I get the joke now.

If it so pleases you, the first round was pictures of drug cheats or 'athletes' as some call them. Dispatched with aplomb.

The Current affairs round required us to state the number of infected Dutch eggs in the U.K. to within 100,000. Our answer of 700,000 was almost eggsactly right.

Next up was an X,Y,Z round; x-rays, zed bed, Zaire and so on and so forth. No problems here

Connections round; Bastille, pancake, Robin etcetera allowed us to back fill the 9th and 35th (?) fences as being Valentines and not Bechers Brook


So, going into the 10 pointers we were in fine fettle with plenty left in the tank. Unfortunately at this point things started to unravel. We were unable to identify the food type that Provolone belongs to and this was a sign of things to come.

The second half saw us grappling with the last 2  connections. Sabayon is the French version of Zagblione and I'm not sure to this day what a catholic minister, beginning with'N' and ending in 'O'is called.
Given that the Busters team contained Pete the chef and at least 2 Irish Catholics, we could sense which way the wind was blowing.

Struggled through the jeopardy round (what did an Irish m.p. Blame for the state of the roads in Kerry? Faeries! )

Music round was fine as usual but we knew we were too far behind and I was surprised that we actually managed a creditable second.

Unsurprisingly, the Landlord's  'Busters' team won having aced the jeopardy round. One way of keeping the cost of the quiz down I guess.

Kevster recommended that we all watch Icarus although Robson felt he knew the story arc already.