14th Janaury 2010

2010 is rapidly turning into The Year of the Hound.

SmithD2, Robsonhound and yours truly notched a second successive quiz victory, leading from gun to tape, to defend their title of weekly champions.

Having shivered to glory last week under the moniker of Snow Hound we thawed slightly this, and entered ourselves (!) as The Slush Puppies

There was no pre-match food to speak of (aside from a rather disappointing packet of Ham & Mustard crisps) but an interesting development in the footwear stakes with all three participants wearing trainers - identify them at your leisure;
1 white
1 blue
1 grey
We got but a couple wrong in the first round to lead jointly with The Hamsters - only got one wrong in the second, music, round and to claim the outright lead and ended up a point ahead of anyone else. Along the way we correctly identified the only false American town name from the following; Chunky, Kermit, Wham, Bum Pass, Bandy Legs and Yazoo but we went for five x True in the True or False round and it was actuallyTTFFF. Ridiculous. We struggled initially with the anagram (NICENESS) but Robson eventually proved he's not just all about the numbers and produced the answer just in the nick of time for our final, and ultimately decisive, point.

Our winning score of 110 is the highest I can remember and approximately equivalent to the number of cans of dreadful Australian lager that have now been won and are maturing chez Smithd2 ahead of the end of season wassail.

Three cheers for The Hound - hip-hip, woof-woof; hip-hip, woof-woof; hip-hip, woof-woof.