Wipeout Hound

Another Thursday and another quiz. The Hound had been laid low by a bout of seconditis recently and it was time for a change. We all arrived pretty much at seven or just after, Kevster had his drinking trousers on and feelings were high. It was going to be a good good night.

Well that lasted as far as the picture round. Nine characters, all apparently connected. The only connection we could find was we didn't have a f****** clue who most of them were. 3/10 to start with, not an auspicious start, possibly an all time low in fact. Things perked up though with current affairs and we started to hit some sort of stride. We've taken to doing "guess the connection" before Q1 and much excitement ensued when the first question related to the "comic" (I'm not a fan) strip Peanuts, which Daren had predicted as the link was the theme of the first question. It would have been a rather obvious connection though and the answer of Blanket was enough to point us towards Michael Jackson (how the heck did he come up with that name?). 10 pointers and we slipped up on a Hindu god - schoolboy stuff frankly, a quiz team should know their Hindu gods and we didn't. This left us around 65-3 chasing 160 at halfway, who would play the major innings?

The wipeout round followed and the scene was set. Now, what you should know of the wipeout round is that in there is going to lurk, like the Clarksonesqe nigger in the woodpile, a trappy rapscallion of a question. It looks simple but in there lies the danger as it lures you like a Siren to the rocky shores of quiz failure. If a question could relate to Ireland, that's a clue but the counter problem is though that you can see too much, dangers that aren't there and start to doubt everything. Well, we were going fine, entering answers for all the questions and then came "how many scoring areas in a dartboard?". 20 × 3 + 2 was the obvious math but Steve steered us towards the safety of 82, triples intersecting the singles. We had 10 answers, we've been there before but they all looked good, with no dissenting voices we went for it and for once were rewarded!


The music round was a virtual lap of honour as we scorched to a 20+ point win. The Hound was back! Naturally we celebrated long and hard, or at least might have done, long anyway but the pub kicked us out so we dispersed into the night, happy with our work. Good as well to have a bunch of hard-drinking Dorises on the next table, much better than that Johnny and the Moondogs pair.

Saturday Quiz

Two reports for the money this week; as Graham, Daren and myself plus 3 guests took the show onto the road at the Purrley Bury tennis club for the SHHIRT charity. A few cats whiskers, a cocktail don't you know, got us in the mood, Tina and Marie provided the insight into the celebrity fluff we're normally so bad at and we fancied our chances. The standard was high though and we couldn't complain at third place. A thoroughly enjoyable evening though.