Thursday 11th February

It was early doors for Team Hound on Thursday (consisting of That Daren, That Robson, That Kevster and That No Longer Anymore A Special Guest, But Still Special Nicky) and, with this additional time advantage, Kevster donned Theo's hat and led us through various quizettes from various newspapers which were breeding on our table.

During this brain-training there was much kerfuffle at the table beside us. Daren realised he should have kept his visage frontwards facing after he turned and was affronted by the same beauty that Kevster and Nicky had been subjected to for some fair few minutes.

As a result, whilst we wouldn't normally discuss the colour of our underwear, but foud ourselves doing so, today's quizette is who was wearing what colour underwear:

Mid-Blue, Black, BLack with lacy edges, Stripey Blue and Grey.

If you have cleverly noticed that there are 5 pieces of underwear to match to their owner, we have also included those belonging to Very Hairy Man With Bottom Protruding From His Jeans.

It was an evening for 'earlies'.. there were even early hot nuts and we speedily decided upon the team name (thank the Lord for small mercies) and assigned ourselves as The Dirty Hound. Whether this was a Freudian thought process related to the exposure of Very Hairy Man With Bottom Protruding From His Jeans, I'm not sure.

Onto the usual mixed bag of round 1. Etymology is important here as there's often words you don't know but with a bit of language knowledge,can get to the answer. Hence I was confident that selenophobia, closely linked to the element selenium named after the sun, was fear of the sun.Incorrect, helium was the sun. Worse was to come though. At the start of the question, which country's Formula 1 circuit... 3 of the 4 of us switched off, took a drink, scratched our ar$es etc, leaving this one to Daren. Imagine our shock, nay horror when Imola turned out to be San Marino, not Italy. Not an easy one to live down. We had a sweep on the points we'd get, it was after the round but that's not really important,Kevster won with 26 - enough for joint top.

*takes baton from Robin*

So, joint second going into the music round, The Hound were tucked into the pack letting the pacemakers (hopefully) exhaust themselves and planning to use Round Two to get into position to kick for home at the bell and romp to another crate of winner's beer. The questions came thick and fast - and The Hound met them head on - thick and fast'ish. Amongst others we got Showaddywaddy, Cream, Rod Stewart, Moody Blues, Gene Kelly, Frankie Vallie, The Jam, Avril Lavigne, Adelle, Kylie, All Saints, Rick Astley, Jason Donovan, The Searchers and The Mamas & Pappas - we missed out on Amy McDonald, Hot Chip, The Hoosiers and a couple of others that I forgot to write down! We went through the bell still in second although the field around us had thinned a little - the joint leaders were a point ahead of us on 62 as we gathered our thoughts, filled our glasses and hunkered down for the final chukka.

*hands baton to Daren*

As predicted, we found ourselves in the 'final' round which as always was a mixture, a melange, a potpourri and dare I say, a veritable hodgepodge of subjects.
Theo (Quizmaster) enlivened the action with the comment that "each team will be awarded a 'joker' subject where the points they score will be doubled. They won't know which subject the joker is being played in but the points will be added to their final score". Absolutely bonkers and in no way a strategy to ensure that the scores could be manipulated so that the majority ended up in a tie break.

sample questions.......

Films Which film opens with the words 'My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood. This is my street. This... is my life. I'm forty-two years old. In less than a year, I'll be dead'. (It doesn't actually)
History - When was the BBC founded
Sport - Name one of the 2 teams in last weeks superbowl
Entertainment- Which 'soap' currently features a character called Rabbit
True or False They were all true apart from the 'elephant in the room' which was about an elephant doing two laps of a circus riding a bicycle - clearly false
The Last 10 - Cant remember the anagram as i've lost my 'notes' - it had an X in it though and Robson got it almost instantaneously.

To our astonishment we ended up in a tie-break with 8 other teams.

How many floors in the Empire State Building? We said 110, Theo said 102, as did 'John Terry Is sleeping on the couch' and to those victors went the spoils.