Darkest Peru Hound

Fresh from watching Saudi Arabia have their shorts pulled down by Russia (allegations of arms deals and OPEC gerrymandering were floated) we expected the quiz to have a World Cup theme. It was therefore no surprise when the opening picture round was flags of 10 participating countries.

This coat of arms in the middle of one of the flags foxed Graham, despite our urgings to write Perú

Apparently irs not A Llama but a Vicuna, a close relative. The tree provides quinine and the strange object at the bottom is a horn of plenty with gold coins spurting forth. The suspicion was that Graham refused to recognise it as he’s still smarting from the 3-1 thrashing they handed out to Scotland in the 1978 finals.https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x35ztrs

Dad”s Army will be commemorated on stamps which is nice and Sian Lloyd had also been in the news but not the weather presenter,

Chain letters was slightly different this week with the connector being the last 3 letters being the first 3 of the next word. I think we navigated this fairly easily.

The sandwiches arrived at this juncture and were much admired.

The 10 pointers were to prove our downfall. Capital of El Salvador, check, biopic movie about Johnny Cash, check.  Mountain on which the statue of Christ the Redeemer stands? Well, Robin! Nigel and myself went early for Sugar Loaf, Graham mulled it over and came up with Corcovado but no one else was able to verify this, which proved to be costly.

After this, my notes are rather sparse. Perhaps some of the following will make sense to the other attendees but my drug addled brain stops recording memories after a certain point in the night.

Constellations
Todd Carty
The Louvre
Most popular pizza in the world.

Anyway, the scores were eventually read out and it was no real surprise when we finished somewhat of the pace.

Anyway, on with the World Cup and on to next week.

Here’s a picture of my garden swimming pool room from Zante,