Hounds Reunited

Thursday 31st July
Purley Arms

For the first time in what felt like too long all regular Hounds were back on the leash and straining together in more or less the same direction...

And it paid off with a win.

The regular question-mistress was away on holiday - her stand-in provided a decent but subtly different quiz - once again we failed to identify a 'blog Hound' early doors and somehow I ended up with it again and had to pinch someone else's notes to make any sense of it...

Keeping it brief;
- picture round was sitcoms and presented no problems
- the 'current affairs' round was replaced with 'food & drink' questions, which we monstered
- the next round was on collective nouns for animals - slightly random, as were our answers - same for everybody though and we fumbled through with four out of ten
- we monstered the connections round, getting the correct connection early (all were Saints) and getting eight of the nine actual answers as well as the connection
- two out of three on the ten pointers, missing out on the fact that one's 'oxter' is your armpit...

Half-time came and went and then;
- the top ten was highest earning male actors - we fannied around with umpteen names and ended up getting four out ten
- we monstered the jeopardy round - I say 'monstered', the fact is we didn't have a clue on several of them but we chose the right ones to dodge and those that we answered we got right
- and when I say we monstered the music round, we really did - ten on ten...

All that for a total of 148.  We've had higher recently and lost but this was sufficient to get us comfortably home and add more funds to the Hound's coffer(s).

Woof.