The Hounds of New York

Daren, Graham and myself for this week. The latter two are entering one of those rare phases of the year that we do some volunteering work, so time a bit shorter than usual. Highlight of my day was a cycle to, and fine lunch at the Lamb Inn at Lamb's Green near Rusper. That doesn't really back up the previous statement does it?

The Lamb

The quiz, well first up was a bunch of European landmarks, The Little Mermaid, The Louvre, that sort of thing. Routine 8 or so here I think. Onto current affairs. Don't think any of us had been paying much attention as we missed a few here. A really heavy Egyptian woman had just died, China have banned something else and a virus, we all thought had pretty much gone a hundred years ago has officially been eliminated in the UK. Blink and you'll miss them folks.

The next round was fun in that each answer had an A as every other letter. So CANADA, YAMAHA and SAHARA as the first three answers set the tone. Despite such help, we didn't know that Diego Valasquez de Cuellar founded Havana and not Caracas and din't have much of a clue on the books of Yasunari Kawabata, though to be fair, we've probably mis-spelt correct answers worse, think we went with Katayama. Here's the fella.

The connections proved less tricky in terms of answers, we had all nine, but were still foxed by the connection. Well played to Daren here and his growing horticultural knowledge for coming up roses. Graham claimed an assist here but I'm not having it. The ten pointers were curiously straightforward and the overall feeling was that it was still all to play for.

A general diversion was provided here for most of the first half of the quiz by a bloke who seemed to have taken a wrong turn on the M1 and was vociferously supporting Castleford Tigers in their game against St Helens. I know, rugby league! To be fair, it was a one point win by a drop goal in golden point extra time so we should forgive the lad.

So, link-ups. Think we squared the circle here without much back-solving. Eulogy led to Young, AA Milne to Estonia and Ambush took it back to Hannibal.

So the jeopardy. Anyone going to give me this geezer?

But at least one team did. We had no clue though. We had a strong clue on the film containing the gang - "The Dead Rabbits". Not many films would fit the bill other than that implied by this blog title. We really didn't know and we've made the mistake before in the jeopardy of putting two and two together and not getting there. So pitching for 8. Music and I think the only one foxing us was "Truly Madly Deeply". Here's the link if you want to see the video, doubt if you do though.



So, maybe a few left out there but not a bad performance. Well, quite the blanket finish resulted.

149 - Some new team I can't remember the name of
149 - Hound
150 - The Anoraks

So a cliffhanger for the second week running but just the wrong side of that wire. Always the tendency to focus on the ones that got away but I still think pound for pound we're punching above our weight. Just.

The link hasn't worked has it but I really don't think anyone is going to miss it; and fine stuff from England in the cricket.