Thursday 3rd April 2014
Purley Arms
Following last week's comfortable and convenient end to our previously impressive winning run The Hound gathered once more to go full tilt at starting another successful streak. Steve Hound had sent prior apologies for absence and Lord Peterkins of Fathershire was attending to matters even more infantile than we were. No pre-match meals of note, except for the Hound himself who partook of Singapore Noodles whilst on the train. Although, now that I think more about it maybe that was the previous week...
Anyway, having gathered for our weekly social time together we immediately spent the first two pints worth locked in individual battles against our array of phones, pods and pads in an attempt to rack up the highest possible score on the all new, all conquering, '2048' puzzle - available now at your local app store. A number of impressive personal bests were notched up and then, in a cruel twist to the advertised prize, the winner of the highest 2048 score competition ended up buying packets of Wotsits for the other competitors - not entirely sure that was what he'd had in mind but there you go.
The first round was pictures of Famous Jacks - Dee, Straw, Nicholson, Sparrow, Charlton etc. The Hound fairly spattered itself in glory, stopping just one correct answer short of completely covering itself - all of us failing to recognise the hugely indistinguishable Jack Dorsey (who invented something to do with the interwebs - tweet your suggestions to @anonymouswebgeek using the hashtag, #whogivesatoss).
Looking through my notes for the remainder of the evening I seem to have recorded stuff we got right much more than the (more interesting) stuff we got wrong but, a potted nutshell of it includes;
- knowing that Dolce & Gabanna had massively disrespected Vicky Beckham's designer range #harkatus
- knowing the price of new 'top-of-the-range' England football shirt was £90 #coolingtechnology
- guessing that three couples married on the same day in the same church had just achieved 180 years of combined marital
- blowing out on the Jeopardy round despite knowing that Timothy the mouse was Dumbo's mate, the Ballroom is the earliest alphabetical Cluedo room and Cambridge have more Boat Race wins than Oxford #noughtoutoften
- not knowing that the soup whose main ingredient is a calves head is known as Mock Turtle Soup #easywhenyouknow
- guessing that the answers in the connections round (Joanna Lumley, Spike Milligan, Gerald Durrell, Cliff Richard et al) were connected by having been born in India, with special mention to Robson Hound for identifying this connection after just one answer #freak
- getting all three of the 10 point bonus questions right (Camponology; Viginia Wade's beaten '77 final opponent; Tarzan author) #seeanswersbelow
- more or less blitzing the music round merely confusing Liberty X for Hearsay #allsoundsthesame
- the Top Ten round...
... Ah yes, the Top Ten round - source of increasing puzzlement and frustration. This week's nonsense was name Britain's top ten most hated foods as according to a survey by a fridge manufacturer... After much huffing, puffing, scribbling, arguing, crossing-out, grumbling and rewriting we submitted a list which (I think) only had four correct answers on it - apparently we should've written; Snails, Tripe, Oysters, Squid, Anchovies, Black Pudding, Kidneys, Olives, Cockles and Liver. #absolutelyoffal
And then we topped that off by getting the 'box of Quality Street' questions massively wrong as well - collective number of years prison sentence handed down the the Great Train Robbers - we said 86, whereas 307 was actually correct. #thievingtoerags
So we didn't win the sweets and we didn't win the consolation prize of £50 cash either - for the second week on the trot finishing runners up. #longoverdueawin
Which merely leaves me to say that the now traditional post-match meal, cooldown and ice-bath were all epic. Again.
* answers to the three ten point bonus questions - bell ringer, Bette Stove and Edgar Rice Burroughs
#thatsallfolks
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