New Bloodhound

3 of us in house. Myself, Nigel second time for Hound at the PA, and Gerry debuting at the PA but you may remember him from the Sun Quiz a while back.

Straight into the pictures...

An old favourite, items from the kitchen. Gerry pretty much mopped up on his own. You might spot the following amongst some slightly easier items; cauliflower florets, apple corer, salad spinner and egg slicer. Once we changed gherkin for banana in Q8 full marks were assured.

A bogey 6 on the current affairs round. Asda added a rubber duck in lieu of peanuts for an online shopper, and a Big Issue vendor increased his sales massively by investing in a contactless card reader. Oh and the TV licence went up. Comes up every year that one.

Round 3 olympics, thankfully not just The Winter version. Back on track with a faultless round, all of us contributing.

A good connections round, we only got the connection, all Olympians, after realising that Q9 was Vanessa Mae not Nigel Kennedy. Geena Davis was an archer (great get by Nigel), General Patton shot rifles, Menzies Campbell and Dr Benjamin Spock both rowers. We couldn’t recollect the actor who played Oddjob in Goldfinger. Harold Sakarta a Japanese wrestler.

10 pointers. Probably my best get of the evening was this ship;

The Graf Spee scuttled in Montevideo harbour in 1939 after the Battle of the River Plate. 

Nigel was straight onto Podgorica as the capital of Montenegro, a fact which escaped the Anoraks forcing them to go big on the Jeopardy.

Another maximum in the chains letters round, landscaping being the toughest to come up with.

We got 8 definites for the Jeopardy round, always helps when they ask for the star sign of those born on February 29 and you have just such a person on your team. Piscean Gerry is technically uunder age, perhaps that’s why he doesn’t drink? We would have got a ninth, the late Jan Ludwig Hoch mp for Buckingham and businessman is indeed Robert Maxwell. Didn’t risk it though as we had no idea of the rapper starring with Michael Caine in the 2009 film Harry Brown. It was this guy.

Plan B. The team sometimes calling themselves Plan B never got it. This Korean dish also featured. 

Kimchee.

Wrong title for the George Michael song but no other slip-ups in the music round. Scores on the doors and first of six teams by a comfortable 12 points. Only 6 questions wrong and 1 unanswered. I certainly know how to pick ringers!

G-Force