A Right Royal Hound

Two days from the big day and the Hound was on tenderhooks. Naturally enough, Round 1 was people who've married into the Royal Family.

Other than getting the wrong season for Peter Phillip's missus, we did ok there. And I'm going to say it, a young Camilla looking quite foxy as well.

Right, other than the actual time of the big event on the current affairs, which we didn't know, that was the end of all that. In more conventional news, Kristen Stewart abandoned her stilettos at Cannes, Mothercare are teetering on the brink and it was The Last Jedi that a bunch of storm troopers were promoting. Who needs real news when you do the quiz every week eh?

The next round was TV and film. Again, fairly routine stuff though we didn't know it was the Budget first televised in March 1990. We did know though that Hatchet Harry and Barry the Baptist were in Lock Stock and Jane & Michael in Mary Poppins.

Not Hatchet Harry and Barry the Baptist.

A fun round for the Connections with not the easiest connection either. A team effort dragged out Tim Lovejoy as Soccer AM presenter but "This Old House" and "Grimm" frankly weren't making it any clearer. The fog started to lift with "The Tube" and "Who Dares Wins" and we were in the realm of TV shows, affirmed by Life on Mars and "Poker Face". No number of clues were giving us the Bingo name for number 9. Doctors Orders, a laxative issued to soldiers in World War II and a, no doubt hilarious, medical sitcom, I'm guessing from the 1990s.

A slight deliberation on whether it was lace or silk manufactured in Burano on the ten pointers but then, it was the first half completed. Now, not wishing to be left of out the team's medical tribulations, I had a bit of a stomach bug on Thursday night so I'm hoping the PA sandwiches had nothing to do with it. Anyone else? Included vomiting out of my nose which was both unpleasant and slightly weird.

So the wrap-around round and the venue for the aborted 1940 Olympics foxed us from the get go. Thankfully though, clues emerged and the whole thing stitched itself together. Why apricot jam with Marzipan though? Is that just a flavour thing?

So onto jeopardy. Nowhere else is knowing what you don't know important. We knew we didn't know which Asian country is a permanent UN member, a toss up between China or Japan, we didn't know that we knew who made the 3310 (Nokia) and we didn't know that we didn't know the Confederations Cup is football, not the teasingly different Federations Cup, a tennis tournament.

Bear Trap? Well we fell right in.

A ceremonial lap on the music and I think a third place for the Hound. Some squad rotation required next week as G Force and myself both otherwise engaged. The Anoraks, LATT, Siobhan and Gerry etc. send their best to you Daren.

Right, those Mumbai scripts won't mark themselves.