'Brand' new quiz post shocker...

27th February 2014
Venue - The Purley Arms

Well, it's back - who knows for how long and yes, it is legitimate to wonder whether its return is for the best, but back it flipping well is so remember your old coping mechanisms and plough straight on...

The Hound is a much changed beast since last this blog was being regularly updated - there have been births (congratulations to all concerned), no deaths or marriages (congratulations all round), a divorce (congratulations to me), two 'new', regular, Hounds (congratulations to all concerned), several beer-sodden Hound events (commiserations to all involved) and countless quizzes participated in with an overall level of success that suggests that as a Championship football team we'd be play-off certainties eyeing up one of the two automatic promotion places.  If that makes sense.  And, to be honest - having read it back, I'm not entirely sure it does...

Whatever - the point is that it's been a long time since this blog was last updated but The Hound hasn't been euthanised.  Far, indeed, from it in fact so...

The Hound gathered in its current favourite kennel in good time for the traditional couple of nerve settlers - apologies at this stage but being somewhat 'out-of-the-habit' I've completely forgotten to investigate the pre-match meal regime *flogs self*... In terms of personnel The Hound was one regular Hound short - Daren having some sort of work commitment the following morning which for some reason left him feeling unable to drink very heavily the evening before (one can only suggest that now The Blog is back that sort of limp-wristed, career-before-Hounding, nonsense will be nipped in the bud...).  But the otherwise regular contingent, gloriously swelled by the already shattered but still-visibly-glowing-after-recent-events personage of Lord Peterkins of Fatherhood, were pumped and primed.

The first round is usually some sort of picture based thing but this week wasn't.  Instead all the vowels and 'spaces' had been removed from the titles of ten TV shows...

1 MLNPRTRDG
2 THTCRWD
3 MNBHVNGBDLY
4 DNNRLDS
5 NTGNGT
6 FTHRTD
7 GVNSTCY
8 TNMBRD
9 THBGBNGTHRY
10 BSLTLYFBLS

...  (I was dreadfully poor at this and only when I'd given up completely noticed that the title at the top of the page gave the major hint that they were all Sitcoms...!)

Anyway, no matter - The Hound got all ten correct.  We got 50% wrong in the following round but rallied with 90% in round three.  85% of round three was conquered and all three of the ten point bonus questions were (relatively easily and confidently) correctly answered.

Thereafter is increasingly blurred but I did manage to rescue the details of the Top Ten round - name the UK's Top Ten 'Brands'?

We went with;
Coca Cola, Apple, Nike, McDonalds, Microsoft, Samsung, Toyota, Google, Facebook and BP.

We got 3 right.*

Thereafter we got 70% and 80% respectively on the closing rounds and ended with a creditable score of 128 which was good enough to place us well clear of third place but well behind the evening's winners.

AND we missed out on the family bag of Minstrels by a relatively huge margin albeit that I've completely forgotten what the question was...  Hey-ho.

So the blog restarts with a loss.  It would be shallow, bordering on pathetic, to point out to readers that The Hound had gone into the above quiz having not lost for five straight weeks - and given that I'm neither shallow nor pathetic we shall see no such thing mentioned here.

Until next week - keep hounding around...

* BA, Rolex, Coca Cola, BBC, Heinz, M&S, Google, Gillette, Kellogs, BMW
(Any/all questions as to the measures/indices/logic by which these were established as being the UK's biggest brands should be kept to yourself 'cos I simply don't know.  Rolex?!  Pffffff....)