And the winning Hound is....

A lot to get through, so let’s get cracking. Pictures of posters for musical plays. I haven’t got them but the following were 2 of the toughest...

This one was Glengarry Glen Ross. I insisted it was on the tip of my tongue all the time. It wasn’t! Crocodile was actually a vulture as well.

We ummed and ahhed between Ladykillers and Mousetrap, both Daren’s suggestions. In our defence the words were removed.

The one that looked gangsterish was a The Great Gatsby.

No Siobhan this week, possibly a good thing after her damning indictment of our previous week’s current affairs effort. Julie setting and asking the questions this week. Happy to tackle subjects S usually avoids, hence dead Italian chef and a delicately phrased Kevin Spacey question. We were firmly back in 7 out of 10 territory.

Food & drink for Rd 3. The fruit tra
ditionally found in a Sussex pond pudding is a lemon, Mary Berry dies a version with apples which was our answer but not traditional. Also Chilli Con Carne is Texan not Mexican. At least one of our team had sensed a bear trap there. Not me, but I got matar as being Indian for peas.

Ok. Now pay attention. Rd 4 was the chain letters round NOT connections. A round usually reserved to kick off the second half. We missed a couple, wrong cathedral for biggest bell, St Paul’s not St David’s and Yucca is somehow related to asparagus.

We missed the first ten pointer. Which animal is mentioned most often in the Bible. Others had heard

 the question before, we hadn’t. Our choice of ass apparently only comes in fourth. Sheep was the






answer.

 

Second half kicked off with Science & Nature. David from Lady & The Tramp, looking I have to say less than his usual sartorially eleganct self, arrived having crucially missed the first half. The rest of 

his team successfully managed to hoodwink him into thinking that this was the connections round. Even better after a few questions they managed to convince him that the connection was scouting. I this K2 was a knot, Troop works anyway, and something else was a kind of tent. Our only clean sheet of the day, fairly perfunctory.

By this time news was reaching us by electronic means that a Hound victory had taken place elsewhere. 

Tina Hound had won Surrey and East Sussex Behind the scenes Employee of the Year! And here is 

the tipsy recipient herself all the way from a Golf Club in Reigate. A look at the award...

Not much later a taxi/limo arrived fir Mr & Mrs S, leaving Robson and I to both try and rescue the Jeopardy round, and to minesweep G&Ts and Kronenbourg left behind.

We failed on the former, having no idea how many units of alcohol are recommended as a weekly 

maximum for ladies by the UK govt.  the advice could have changed whilst we were quizzing quite frankly. We blew out by putting skin as the only organ on the human body that is able to regenerate. The required answer was liver, which was mentioned, but the question should perhaps have said 

internal organ? Another fairly dubious question asserted that the tortoise is the animal that usually lives the longest. Could write a thesis on this one, there is A jellyfish species believed to be immortal (still subject to predators and natural disasters but none known to die of old age). Clams have been recorded at 507 years old.

Maybe I’m just a bad loser. A new PB of 620 points, but still 70 short of The Anoraks winning score in 3rd place. Think we got a Bruno Mars song correct, another first.

This fellow and his well dockumented shortcoming also featured..

Oh yes, and ther were egg sandwiches.

G-Force

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