7.15 - Steve and myself arrived semi-directly from work, via the KA, oddly enough to find Kevster and Graham in the pub garden. Whether this was to avoid another ear bleeding attack from death metal or take in the pleasant evening wasn't clear but we made ourselves comfortable. "Garden" is maybe a slightly flattering term for it, not being an enthusiastic smoker, I hadn't really been out back before, it's more of a yard, with a noisy vibrating thing and a strong smell of curry. Still, it was undoubtedly a pleasant evening and a happy hour or so was whiled away.
Naturally the conversation turned to the world cup and the one question for me that hasn't been answered, following the total domination of the last world cup in South Africa by Paul, the psychic octopus, which predictive cephalopod is going to come to the table this time? Will we get Sammy, the psychic squid or Colin the cognitive cuttlefish? Either could probably do better than me, Spain to win indeed.
No Daren this week, he was discharging responsibilities, and let's hope that's all so it was down to the four of us to get on with it. First up was flags of world cup countries and this was right up Graham's alley. Bafflingly though a collective blind spot left us failing to get Spain, think we got the rest though. Current affairs wasn't memorable, by me anyway, and surely the connections round had to be one of names of stadia, world cup captains, breeds of dog or types of cheese? Nope, it was flies, may, crane, dragon etc. bagged by Steve after 3 I think.
Films featured somewhere and on the 10 pointers, we got Michelle Mcmanus rose to "fame" (anyone remember Geraldine McQueen?) but a slight case of over thinking led us away from Kenneth Williams on most carry on films, can't remember who we did go for but we entered half time maybe slightly behind. An ongoing sweep on the time of the next goal in the Brazil game devised by Kevster was keeping us amused in the interim.
Suitably refreshed with beer and wotsits, we tackled the second half. Top 10 was a rather easy, name 10 world cup finalists and onto the business end of the wipeout. Key question here, which action figures were named after a film starring Robert Mitchum? Turned out to be GI Joe, though we did have some justification of our answer of Action Man as research shows that was what they were marketed as in the Uk. The film was the story of GI Joe though so fine answers such as Lonely Street, Tittle and Alfred Nobel were rendered moot.
Decent music though "Everybody's Talking" by Neilson evaded us. Having wiped out a win was out of the question, think we scraped second. No quiz next week as it's England v Uruguay and I guess future ones are dependant on the progress England make so Thursday 26th it is.
Saturday 14 June 2014
Sunday 8 June 2014
Thursday's Hound is thin of hair...
Stardate 5 June 2014: 7:15 p.m. - What is this abomination coming from the speakers in the Purley Arms, volume cranked up to 11? Daren was not impressed, and with the possible exception of one AC/DC number it was easy to see why.
Onto the questions... all you need to know is;
Blue Moon = 2nd full moon in any calendar month
Harvest Moon = nearest full moon to the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern hemisphere, usually occurring in September.
Jeopardy round blown and along with it our last chance of winning. We were also poor on the picture round (disney villains) and Top 10 boys name with Oscar and Ethan being amongst those that we missed. A question that often comes in different guises and always causes trouble is the biggest etc. mediterranean island by area. For future reference the top 5 in order are Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, Corsica, Crete. No doubt we will be asked for the sixth largest next time.
The box of Maltesers was however ours, for being nearest on a question regarding passenger traffic through Heathrow.
What we have learned from this week's trip to the PA apart from the above...
Fabregas may as well not bother coming back to the PL, his style of play doesn't suit any of the teams therein.
Any Bermudan visitors to this blog may well meet a hound in person before long. Ditto x up to 6 for those in Northern Cyprus.
Angelo Matthews is in with a chance of both the nobel peace prize and BBC overseas sportsman of the year.
Tony Yeboah scored more than one blinding goal in that year.
Kevster has 5 million in his sights on 2048 8x8 version.
There was also a small amount of debate regarding a playlist of songs with days of the week in their title. A survey based on my own itunes library (sample size 50,000, cover versions counted separately but not alternative versions of a song by the same artist) gave the following results;
Monday 31
Tuesday 13
Wednesday 9
Thursday 5 (0.01%)
Friday 22
Saturday 61
Sunday 54
Thus confirming Daren's comment re Thursday. The 5 Thursday songs for the record are Holy Thursday (David Axelrod), Thursday (The Futureheads), Sweet Thursday (Icicle Works), Thursday (Pet Shop Boys feat,Example), and Thursday's Child (Tansads). Others available on application. Special mentions for Big Country (Monday Tuesday Girl) and The Levellers (Saturday to Sunday) for fitting two weekdays into one song title.
Confusion reigns as to whether or not the World Cup opener will thwart next week's quiz. The England game the week after almost certainly will so it could be 3 weeks until the next blog.
Graham Hound
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