Pre Cheltenham Hound

Not quite the first quiz for me for a while but I've missed more than I've made recently so great to be back there. Chelsea took the starring role in the pub though so we were all relegated to back round the pool table.

Just Graham and myself so a picture round on film characters was hardly up our alley. Not so tough though and we took a relieved 9, just Charles Xavier, unsurprisingly, escaping us.

Onto current affairs and this got very guessy. So its 2 locks of hair that the British Museum is returning to Ethiopia, Air India who require announcers to hail the Motherland (Jai Hind!) and the new Barbie doll is none of LGBTQ+ but merely Maori. Rather a let down. But we plumped successfully at a few including which sleb is accused of not sending some kids to school.

Rather unconventionally, music would prove to be round 3. Fairly standard fare, we only really had to get out the guessing trousers for which Spice Girl released an album called Schizophonic. Well, this one.

So next up was guess the year. Having got a good handle on it with when the Rubik's Cube was launched, none of the other questions really helped that much, other than maybe nudging us back so we went with a traditionally one year out approach and 1979. Some tougher questions in there, a theme that continued with the ten pointers. It was Eric Bana who played the Hulk, or rather confusingly, his character of Bruce Banner. Pyrosis is heartburn as well which we may have had before, not literally though.


So halfway and behind the 8 ball, would the link-ups round help? Well we linked them up but probably not really, working out a tomato could be a nightshade plant finally joined the dots.

What a useful plant!

So we needed to nail the Jeopardy, well 3 questions vexed us:

- which is the only World Capital that begins with I?

- what reality programme did Mark from Take That win in 2002?

- Whose oppo includes Sandman and Green Goblin?.

Well, it took a world tour for Graham to arrive in Islamabad but the other two were 50/50 at best so we parked it. Bah.

Some more modern music for a change, Maroon 5, Rita Ora, which probably helped us as much as everyone else and a Hound 2nd resulted, fair play to the team with Pete's brother in law for bagging the jeopardy.

Ok, next week, it all happens.

4 Days of Cheltenham!
No pub quiz! But apparently a really good Irish Band instead
Mansfield away at Crawley!

Not sure I can wait that long.