25th November 2010 - JaegerHound...

Status Report for 25/11/2010

Venue: The Greyhound - Carshalton
Start: 8pm

I phoned Robin at around 7pm. Robson, Kevster and Daren were already roasting their chestnuts by the large, open fire. I was at home and couldn't face the 407 schlep, so I phoned for a cab and arrived at 7.30. As it was so cold, it all felt very festive. I got to the bar and 'Olive' couldn't cater for Robin's 'Special' needs, so we drunk Young's 'Ordinary'. Daren and Kevster drank their usual Kronenbourg and I tried hard to keep up!

Daren paid much attention to the open fire and successfully placed logs in strategic positions to make it look fantastic. Daren's tip of the week:

"Coal is for heat and logs are for flames."

We were informed that the quiz didn't take place last week, as only one team arrived. However, five teams turned up and filled the bar areas, including a beautiful young flibberdy gibbet next to us, sitting with her grandfather. Kevster's eyes were fixed in her direction, happily engaging in answer swapping with her and grandfather for the rest of the evening amongst quiz, fag breaks and Kronenbourg.

This week's quiz contained a picture round in which we had to name English kings and queens and I think we did pretty well. Full marks for the Speed Stars round set us up for rest of the quiz. We also scored well in the music round where we played our joker. Next up was Technology and Industry where Lord Nuffied made cars, Persil were the first makers of detergent, Howard Hughes was famous for his films and William not Edgar Hoover invented the vacuum cleaner. I asked my wife the other day - 'Who invented the skip - it was in fact Bennis Marrell - Ahaa!!


We did consistently well in the next 3 rounds: Pot Luck, TV Times and Board Games. Annoyingly, we couldn't get the manopoly property that has all the letters in the word manopoly.....There was also an argument about the spelling of Tony Blair's son's name - Euan or Ewan. Silly name anyway!

Our performance came out well at the end and we were involved in a tie breaker for first place. Both teams had amassed 57.5 points. The tie breaker question:

What is the total size of all angles in a hexagon? Obviously Robson territory. The other side said 360 degrees and Robson was correct with 720 degrees. £30 food voucher plus return of entrance fees gratefully received. With this Daren purchased jeigermeisters all round.

One of the answers in the games round was 'Tilt' a game I've not played. However, this seemed to attract us to a game on Kevster's phone during our breaks. Chips arrived a little later this week.

All in all, a very good evening, proving that The Greyhound seems to be the quiz venue to be at the moment. Not sure about this week - as weather may have an impact on what we do and where we go?

(Inter-company)Peter(kins)