1st October 2009

Another Thursday, another quiz and to lend an Irish flavour to
proceedings, The O'Hounds made their way to the arena. In order of
arrival at the JF, the team was Daren, myself, Pete, Tina and Kevster;
in descending order of fine dining, pre-quiz meals were salmon, quiche,
a baguette, chicken and chips and a chicken burger and chips. Usual
rules apply.

To add extra spice to proceedings, one of the rival teams was made up
entirely of Sullivans, headed up Kevster's dad, a veteran of 30 years in
the Met. Tina knew she had to be on her best behaviour and no rioting
would be tolerated.

Onto the quiz and the O'Hounds came flying out of their blocks and led
after one round with 29/30. Onto the traditional music round and a true
team effort here with the answer sheet flying round the team with
everyone making contributions. We felt we'd done well here but after
round 2, although we were again disputing the lead with only 3 points
separated all the teams.

In the final round our standards slipped and with a poor true or false
round we felt we were back in the pack and would it be a tiebreaker?
Typically my short term memory has failed me and I can remember very few
of the answers, Guy Gibson,
www.wiki.answers.com/Q/How_long_is_a_venus_day (the question being is it
longer than an Earth year or was it a Venus year?) and Amy Winehouse are
about all I can come up.

Well, no surprise, all but one teams got exactly the same score and the
tie-breaker was, how many fans attended the first Wembley Cup Final?
www.wembleystadium.com/StadiumHistory/greatmoments/1steverwembleyFACupFi
nal.htm Apparently Daren knew this but in the confusion we went low and
the rest is history. The only consolation was the winners were our local
rivals Quizzards Sleeve and not the Sullivan family. All in all a
welcome return to normality.