MOUTON - Le Reveal

[E.N.]

Having sold out on his principles, E.N. is rewarded with the outright lead after six questions.

Principles are for losers

[lorcand1990]

[Homer J. Fong]

E.N.'s perfect run finally comes to an end as he misses a Sheep. But it won't damage him too much as there was a decent variety of answers for this question, with the lowest Sheep we've had thus far:

Question 7: Name a French rugby player.

Antoine Dupont - 7
ari101
Edser
jluv
lorcand1990
Neowise
ShaneU
Wichita Lineman

Sébastien Chabal - 6
Butty Brennan
davetherave
E.N.
Irish Aris
jp liz v1
Kol

Fabien Galthié - 3
aaronjennings
Leg End Reject
nothing

Frédéric Michalak - 2
Declan A Walsh
Toto Wolfcastle

Serge Blanco - 2
Cj maxx
Zaph

ACES - 1:

Raphaël Ibañez - Sawduck
Mathieu Basteraud - Necro


And hopefully this will compensate for the last video:

[Leg End Reject]

Je déteste les questions sportives. ☹😞

[Homer J. Fong]

Time for some literature now. Which of these authors will you be (figuratively) sinking your teeth into? 

[Homer J. Fong]

Honestly, I thought Dumas would've taken this. But au contraire; it's a huge Sheep for Hugo.
Just as well I wasn't playing! 

Question 8: Name a French writer.

Victor Hugo - 16
aaronjennings
Cj maxx
davetherave
Declan A Walsh
E.N.
Edser
Irish Aris
jp liz v1
lorcand1990
Necro
Neowise
nothing
ShaneU
Toto Wolfcastle
Wichita Lineman
Zaph

Alexandre Dumas - 2
jluv
Sawduck

Voltaire - 2
ari101
Butty Brennan

ACES - 1:

Jules Verne - Kol
Marcel Proust - Leg End Reject

[E.N.]

Honestly, I thought Dumas would've taken this. But au contraire; it's a huge Sheep for Hugo.
Just as well I wasn't playing! 

[Homer J. Fong]

Time for some musique classique now.

Did any of these pieces inspire you while your were composing your entries? 













Or perhaps you preferred something a bit more modern?

[lorcand1990]

Honestly, I thought Dumas would've taken this. But au contraire; it's a huge Sheep for Hugo.
Just as well I wasn't playing! 


Alexandre Dumas - 2
jluv
Sawduck

[Homer J. Fong]

Given we had a super moon recently, it's perhaps appropriate that Debussy is the big Sheep here.
No love for Offenbach, despite having arguably the most "French" instrumental piece (i.e. the Can-Can dance!)

Question 9: Name a French composer of classical music.

Claude Debussy - 17
aaronjennings
ari101
Butty Brennan
Cj maxx
davetherave
Declan A Walsh
E.N.
Edser
jluv
Leg End Reject
lorcand1990
nothing
Sawduck
ShaneU
Toto Wolfcastle
Wichita Lineman
Zaph

Maurice Ravel - 2
Irish Aris
Kol

ACES - 1:

Hector Berlioz - jp liz v1
Jean-Michel Jarre - Neowise
Georges Bizet - Necro

[Homer J. Fong]

Honestly, I thought Dumas would've taken this. But au contraire; it's a huge Sheep for Hugo.
Just as well I wasn't playing! 

Pfft, in a normal world one Hunchback stands no chance against three Musketeers.

[E.N.]

Pfft, in a normal world one Hunchback stands no chance against three Musketeers.

[Homer J. Fong]

After 9 questions, E.N. retains his lead and it's now a five-point advantage. Shane has crept up to second, with Witchy in third. Leggy has fallen back a bit after over-indulging on Proust.

The ghosts of Jules Verne and Maurice Ravel curse Kol to hold the Spoon.

Scores after question 9:

Player Score
E.N. 123
ShaneU 118
Wichita Lineman 108
Cj maxx 106
lorcand1990 105
Edser 104
nothing 102
Declan A Walsh 102
Toto Wolfcastle 102
Leg End Reject 102
Irish Aris 99
jluv 98
davetherave 98
Neowise 88
jp liz v1 87
Sawduck 87
aaronjennings 85
ari101 84
Zaph 81
Necro 80
Butty Brennan 60
Kol 45

[Homer J. Fong]

Honestly, I thought Dumas would've taken this. But au contraire; it's a huge Sheep for Hugo.
Just as well I wasn't playing! 


Alexandre Dumas - 2
jluv
Sawduck

The show really should have done more with Red's love of French classics!

[nothing]

[Homer J. Fong]

Now for some more contemporary music.
Any of these artists take you fancy?

[Butty Brennan]

Get in! Just call me le spoon dodger. 

[Homer J. Fong]

If you went with Édith Piaf....then you should ne regrette rien! 
It isn't the biggest Sheep we've seen though; a lot of different answers were given here and we get quite a few Aces as a result, as well as some big names not chosen at all! 

And while there are no wrong answers in Sheep....I'm not sure how the Canadian Celine Dion would feel being on this list!   (French Canadian tbf....but not French-French!) 


Question 10: Name a French musical artist (singer, duo or group).

Édith Piaf - 10
aaronjennings
Butty Brennan
Declan A Walsh
Edser
lorcand1990
nothing
Sawduck
ShaneU
Toto Wolfcastle
Zaph

Vanessa Paradis - 3
Cj maxx
Irish Aris
Leg End Reject

Daft Punk - 3
ari101
E.N.
Kol

ACES - 1:

Françoise Hardy - Wichita Lineman
Celine Dion - jluv
Clearlight - jp liz v1
Izïa Higelin - Neowise
Jean-Jacques Goldman - davetherave
David Guetta - Necro

[E.N.]

Je regrette ce tout

[Homer J. Fong]

SCIENCE, BITCH!

Antoine Lavoisier, giant of chemistry;
René Descartes, giant of mathematics and philosophy;
Blaise Pascal, giant of mathematics and physics;

These are just some of the names that none of you heathens chose.

This one was a two-horse race;

Radioctive Woman



vs

Pasteurisation Man

[Homer J. Fong]

The tightest round so far but Madame Curie just about comes out on top. If one person had changed their answer to Pasteur, we'd have had a tied-Sheep.

Marie Skłodowska, as I'm sure you all know, was Polish....but she did become a naturalised French citizen following her marriage to Pierre Curie. And besides; no wrong answers in Sheep!

Question 11: Name a French scientist.

Marie Curie - 12
aaronjennings
ari101
Butty Brennan
Cj maxx
davetherave
Declan A Walsh
E.N.
jp liz v1
lorcand1990
Necro
nothing
ShaneU

Louis Pasteur - 10
Edser
Irish Aris
jluv
Kol
Leg End Reject
Neowise
Sawduck
Toto Wolfcastle
Wichita Lineman
Zaph

[Homer J. Fong]

We've been too kind on France thus far, but now it's time for us to boo them as we remember that they were colonial bastards just like the British. (And others)

Which French colony did you opt to remember here?

[Homer J. Fong]

Another decent spread of answers here but it's Canada that comes out on top.

Question 12: Name a country that was colonised by France.

Canada - 8
aaronjennings
Butty Brennan
E.N.
jluv
Kol
Leg End Reject
Necro
Sawduck

French Guiana - 4
Edser
Neowise
nothing
Toto Wolfcastle

Algeria - 4
Irish Aris
ShaneU
Wichita Lineman
Zaph

Senegal - 2
Cj maxx
lorcand1990

ACES - 1:

Tunisia - jp liz v1
Haiti - Declan A Walsh
Mali - davetherave
Côte d'Ivoire - ari101

[Homer J. Fong]

12 down, 8 to go.
E.N. retains his lead but it's been shaved to two points following his Daft choice on the music round.
Shane holds onto second place despite losing a few points with Algeria.

A big gap back to Lorcan in third; is it a two-horse race to win?

Meanwhile Kol......yeah.

Scores after question 12:

Player Score
E.N. 146
ShaneU 144
lorcand1990 129
nothing 128
Edser 128
Toto Wolfcastle 126
Declan A Walsh 125
Wichita Lineman 123
Cj maxx 123
Leg End Reject 123
jluv 117
Irish Aris 116
Sawduck 115
aaronjennings 115
davetherave 112
Zaph 105
Neowise 103
jp liz v1 101
Necro 101
ari101 100
Butty Brennan 90
Kol 66

[Homer J. Fong]

Time to remember Napoleon now.
I was originally going to ask for a military defeat...but I figured I'd just get 22 Waterloos!

So let's see where his most well known victory lay instead?

[Jluv]

EN is going to ace every question from here and I'm going to sheep them all and win!! Just watch😁😁

[Edser]

[Homer J. Fong]

No changes to the top three here as E.N., Shane and Lorcan are all on the Sheep.

Cj maxx; you might wanna double-check the results of that one! 

Question 13: Name a battle won by Napoleon.

Battle of Austerlitz - 12
ari101
Butty Brennan
davetherave
E.N.
Edser
jluv
jp liz v1
lorcand1990
Neowise
ShaneU
Wichita Lineman
Zaph

Toulon - 6
aaronjennings
Declan A Walsh
Irish Aris
Kol
Leg End Reject
Toto Wolfcastle

Battle of the Pyramids - 2
nothing
Sawduck

ACES - 1:

Battle of Trafalger - Cj maxx
Battle of Rivoli - Necro

[Homer J. Fong]

The real world is too stressful; let's take a diversion into the world of fiction instead. And time for another dodgy pre-made collage!

[Homer J. Fong]

Decent spread of answers but the lovestruck skunk triumphs over the inspector and the warrior.
Our top two miss out; is this the start of a Lorcan comeback?

Question 14: Name a fictional French character.

Pepe le Pew - 6
jluv
Leg End Reject
lorcand1990
Neowise
nothing
Toto Wolfcastle

Inspector Clouseau - 5
aaronjennings
ari101
Cj maxx
davetherave
Sawduck

Asterix - 4
Butty Brennan
Irish Aris
Wichita Lineman
Zaph

Quasimodo / The Hunchback of Notre Dame - 3
E.N.
Edser
ShaneU

ACES - 1:

Phantom - jp liz v1
Barbarella - Declan A Walsh
Gaston - Necro
D'Artagnan - Kol

[Homer J. Fong]

Onto a question about the neighbours now.
You had nine possible answers here, of which five were chosen.

[Homer J. Fong]

If we were playing Heeps or Peehs, I know at least one smart-alec would have picked Brazil here. But in the world of Sheep, it's Germany that wins out.

Question 15: Name a country that borders France.

Germany - 10
aaronjennings
Cj maxx
davetherave
E.N.
Edser
jluv
lorcand1990
ShaneU
Toto Wolfcastle
Zaph

Spain - 5
Declan A Walsh
Kol
Necro
nothing
Sawduck

Belgium - 4
ari101
Irish Aris
jp liz v1
Neowise

Italy - 2
Butty Brennan
Wichita Lineman

ACES - 1:

Switzerland - Leg End Reject

[Zaph]

Je suis ici maintenant et, quelle surprise, je suis tres merde à ce jeu.

[Homer J. Fong]

We're 3/4 of the way through and here is our scoreboard:

Scores after question 15:

Player Score
E.N. 171
ShaneU 169
lorcand1990 157
Edser 153
Toto Wolfcastle 148
jluv 145
nothing 141
Wichita Lineman 141
Cj maxx 139
davetherave 139
Declan A Walsh 137
aaronjennings 136
Leg End Reject 136
Zaph 131
Irish Aris 130
Sawduck 127
Neowise 125
ari101 121
jp liz v1 118
Butty Brennan 108
Necro 108
Kol 78
E.N. still holding onto that two-point advantage over Shane.
Kol needs to pick up 30+ points and hope Necro and/or Butty falter if he wants to avoid the Spoon.

[Homer J. Fong]

Unsurprisingly, the next question had the widest pool of answers given.
Let's all polish up our vocabulary! 

[Homer J. Fong]

Some of you must have felt like you've seen this before, as you chose Déjà vu as your Sheep.

Question 16: Name a French word that is commonly used in English.

Déjà vu - 7
ari101
E.N.
jluv
Leg End Reject
lorcand1990
Necro
Sawduck

Cul-de-sac - 3
davetherave
Declan A Walsh
Toto Wolfcastle

Baguette - 2
ShaneU
Wichita Lineman

ACES - 1:

Confit - nothing
Chauffeur - Cj maxx
Amuse bouche - jp liz v1
Rendez-vous - Neowise
Encore - Irish Aris
Chic - Butty Brennan
Champagne - Zaph
Bon appétit - Edser
Bon Voyage - Kol
Eclair - aaronjennings

There were actually a few clues in the questions themselves (and the accompanying gif!) that @ShaneU , @nothing and @aaronjennings may (or may not) have picked up on; if so, it was alas to no avail.

@E.N. stretches his lead to seven points.

[Homer J. Fong]

If you've stayed with the Reveal this long, chances are you are in desperate need of a drink. So it's time for some wine.
Which region did you choose?

[Homer J. Fong]

Of course, it's not *really* Sheep unless it comes from the Mouton region of France. Otherwise it's just 'sparkling woolly farm animal'. 

Nevertheless, is it time for @E.N. to break out the Champagne?



NON! 

Bordeaux is our big Sheep here and Shane is on it, but E.N. isn't!





Question 17: Name a wine-producing region of France.

Bordeaux  - 15
aaronjennings
ari101
Butty Brennan
Edser
Irish Aris
jluv
jp liz v1
Leg End Reject
lorcand1990
Necro
Neowise
nothing
ShaneU
Toto Wolfcastle
Zaph

Champagne - 4
Cj maxx
E.N.
Kol
Wichita Lineman

ACES - 1:

Burgundy - Sawduck
Loire Valley - Declan A Walsh
Provence - davetherave

[Homer J. Fong]

So before we sit down for our three course meal to cap the night off, let's have one more look at the scores after that potentially game-changing round:

Scores after question 17:

Player Score
ShaneU 186
E.N. 182
lorcand1990 179
Edser 169
jluv 167
Toto Wolfcastle 166
Leg End Reject 158
nothing 157
aaronjennings 152
Wichita Lineman 147
Zaph 147
Irish Aris 146
Cj maxx 144
davetherave 143
ari101 143
Neowise 141
Declan A Walsh 141
Sawduck 135
jp liz v1 134
Necro 130
Butty Brennan 124
Kol 83
Shane has now overtaken E.N. at the top, with a 4-point lead. Can he hold on during our repas?

Let us being with the starter:

[lorcand1990]

I hope @E.N. unwritten rules for sheep don't let me down here!