Hound, Where's Your Troosers?

St Andrews Day and Siobhan treated us to a Scottish themed quiz this week. Graham, Steve and myself formed the team this week and we were immediately, well not quite as we got there around 7, faced with a picture sheet of all things Scottish, with Scottish inventions to the fore.

Now the Scots have always punched above their weight in this field and we weren't restricted to the standard ones here. So marmalade, which we'd all assumed was invented by Peruvian bears, actually turns out by have been invented by an enterprising Scottish merchant, who had a storm damaged ship from Seville laden with fruit and presumably lots of sugar at his disposal. A Scotsman also invented the hypodermic syringe, though that one was probably just personal need.

Some Scottish people.

Next up, current affairs with what's now a more typical around 6 for this round. We knew where Harry and Meghan plan to wed and we also know who didn't know there had been a female PM in Britain (Really!). Escaping us though were the name of that volcano in Bali and the multi media personality done twice for speeding in the same area, who I've also forgotten again already.

The third round was unambiguous enough "Scotland", and we did pretty well here failing only to remember the castle where Madge and Guy Ritchie got married, despite recanting most of Macbeth in the process.

Connections and Graham will claim he got this in one but I don't believe him. A nursery rhyme apparently.

There was an old woman who swallowed a cow,
I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old woman who swallowed a horse,
She's dead of course!

Really not sure about that food chain, when has a goat ever caught a dog? Answers were actually in the correct order, Marty McFly, Spider-Man etc.

Ten pointers was where it started to unravel. Seventies documentary The World At War was narrated by whom? Our wrong answer was Richard Burton which I'll take the rap for suggesting but two other teams put this as well which led me to think he really should have done it. Maybe.. oh, that's not going to work. Actually it was Larry.

Sir Laurence.

Half time and we seemed to eat most of the sandwiches in the pub, I'd been to the gym and hadn't eaten, not sure of the others excuses, but on we go with Link Ups. Again, all fairly smooth until some Fred Astaire film tripped us up and left a bit of a gap there. So jeopardy would need to be good.

Well, we were confident that Madras became Chennai and the Curtis Cup was all about women's golf. We weren't confident on who played M in Goldeneye, what Chorophobes are scared of and what tea producing city is the jewel of north India. We swerved two, we should have swerved three, or maybe two different ones. To be fair, it felt like we needed to gamble. On the subject of phobias, gelotophobia anyone?

Music was pretty decent, just one escaped us but with the bust jeopardy, some way of and frankly a clean seven wouldn't have been any use. Onto next week.