Spooky Hound

Three of us this week. Although Kevster and I arrived first, Daren clearly had a head-start on us elsewhere and wasn't to be trusted as scribe so Kevin took the honours. Also a change of scenery, Halloween celebrations required a 7 foot dummy next to our normal table which made annoying noises around every 30 seconds so we moved elsewhere. The next team just unplugged the darn thing. I don't known, grown men dressing up in "scary" costumes. Not always a fan of Americanisms but "lame" sums this all up quite nicely.

So the quiz, this fella anyone?

Not exactly mainstream. Think we got the other nine but "celebrity" chef is pushing it with this bloke. In this country anyway. Wolfgang Puck in case you were wondering. The current affairs, well more on this later but there were a few punts where we did back the wrong horse. So soap and not toilet paper was said by Ryanair to be non-essential and it was the Canvey Island not the Isle of Sheppey who declared independence. Or something.

Round 3 was triple words, so Wet Wet Wet, Spend Spend Spend and the like. Think we managed her to get the right answer for the wrong question, not knowing that 69 Paradise Passage (really) referenced Gimme Gimme Gimme the TV show and the Abba song in question was actually Money Money Money. Spot a pattern?

Bonus round here, as we didn't go last week Siobhan gave us that picture round for our amusement, so away go go.

Connections and a fairly tame link of hats, "balmoral", "sun", "halo" and the like. On the ten pointers, credit for whoever said that Dandy Horse was the forerunner name to the bicycle, know if wasn't me.

Onto link ups and somewhere along the line, we had credible answers and they did link-up but a few of them were wrong. So Tonto's horse was actually called Scout and indeed cocoa is mainly grown in the Ivory Coast and Ghana. But there were some good answers as well. Onto jeopardy and this was one we didn't know.

Handsome chap I thought. Goes by the name of a caracal, think bird was the only answer postulated. And Eric the Eel, knew he was central African and with a gun to my head would have correctly gone Equatorial Guinea but no confidence. Ah, Marge Simpson, another picture I think.

Now I've seen the Simpsons quite a lot but didn't know she wears a green dress. At least I knew I didn't know it but there we are. Music, I think we got nine songs and artists and had gone to the gents by the time the Maltesers question came.

Well, we din't win. And frankly we wouldn't have won with an optimised jeopardy round either, one for the Busters.

Much of the rest of the evening was spent debating whether UHNW (ultra high new worth) was better than CNW (colossal net worth). Yep, it had come to that; in the words of Siobhan, we were horrendous at the current affairs.