This week and it was the pleasure and privilege of the Hound to wecome special guest Ashleigh - Kevster's daughter into the team. This caused a certain amount of puzzlement and consternation amongst the other regulars, I think most of them thought we'd kidnapped her, but it certainly added diversity to our number. Music post around 1995 and celebrity fluff would hold no fears this week.
Pre quiz fun largely consisted of crisp/Wotsit challenges between the two Sullivans; Ashleigh's bag opening and savoury snack presentation were superior but her use of the empty packet let her down badly and frankly wasn't of the standard required at this level. Other quizzers were Graham, Daren and myself.
Onto the main event and we kicked off with pictures. Generally these were toothsome actors/actresses and barring ER fella (Noah Wyle) and big-haired 80s type (Kathleen Turner) we got them but what was the connection? Turns out they'd all guest starred in Friends. In retrospect, odd we didn't get that but celebrating the 20th anniversary this would be a Friends themed quiz. This got me thinking, six in the show, six in the core Hound collective. So in no particular order and in the theme of those irksome "which Friend are you?" type quizzes that pop up we have:
Robson - Ross
Pete - Phoebe
Graham - Joey
Kevster - Rachel
Steve - Chandler
Daren - Monica
Just try not to imagine any of the couplings that have taken place over the years.
Next up, current affairs, haven't made any notes here, then the actual Friends round. Now given this show started before Ashleigh was even a twinkle in Rachel's eye you wouldn't expect this to be her strong suit but as we generally looked blankly at each other, she proceeded to hit it out the park. The names of Graham's chair, my monkey, Pete's alter ego and Kevster's daughter were all reeled off, the only gap being she only knew one of Daren's children. Trust she gave herself a stern talking to.
Connections, the only note I have here is "Barry from Eastenders", so fill in the blanks yourselves folks.
10 pointers, yikes, we didn't cover ourselves in glory here. What does an arctophile collect? We had competing answers from Joey and Monica of Teddy Bears and dolls respectively. Dolls won out but only as our answer, it was teddy bears. What do all the playing card queens hold? I'll take the rap for this one, having spent more time than most looking at them. The best I could offer was sceptre (spades only). We went with mirror but it turned out to be flowers.
Top 10 was EU countries by population. An ideal opportunity for the usual 7 and so it proved, with much debate around Holland, Turkey and Austria along the way.
Sometime around now, Monica's pint was spilled. Ross may have been responsible, hard to tell.
Onto the jeopardy and a few short pitched ones outside off stump warmed us up until along came "In which country was Demis Roussos born?". This was plainly a wolf in wolf's clothing and we naturally sidestepped it (the right answer was Egypt). Maybe slightly off our guard then followed the capital of Brazil prior to 1960 odd, i.e. Brasilia I'm paraphrasing here. Joey supplied Sao Paolo which was accepted without a murmur but Kaboom! It was Rio so nul points there.
Music and thankfully it was mainly pre 1995, it usually is, but with jeopardy blown and ten pointers mangled, our chances were not high. Weirdly we still managed second, without Emma G-G's contribution we would have been way out with the washing. Joey gave the Gellers a lift back to Purley and Rachel and Emma went for a kebab in Sutton. Happy days!
Saturday 27 September 2014
Tuesday 16 September 2014
(As it turns out - Not at all...) Straightforward Hound...
Thursday 11th September 2014
Purley Arms
With D2 away on holiday the four gathered hounds were delighted to have their number swollen to five with Lord Peterkins of Fatherhood making a welcome and gorgeous appearance just before kick off. Thereafter though the evening's sport was relatively straightforward, bordering on perfunctory...
The picture round - just bog-standard celebs in black and white photos - Sara Cox, Ronnie Ancona, Ross Kemp, Dave Gorman, Richard E Grant - you get the idea... 8/10
Round 2 - History - 7/10 - we got wrong the year in which women over 21 were given the vote (1928), the year construction started on the Berlin Wall (October '61) and something about South America where I distinctly remember saying 'INCA?' but everyone ignored me and we got it wrong but guess what the answer was...
Round 3 - Connections - one round earlier than usual I think (isn't it usually the fourth round?) - we got all nine AND the connection so for those that weren't there see if you can connect these answers; Brian, The Spanish Inquisition, Holy Grail, John Parrot, Albatross, Nudge, Liberty Bell, Spam & lumberjacks...
Round 4 - Food & Drink - 7/10 again (I think) - we got wrong; something about rotten Chinese eggs (?!?), the meaning of the term 'liaison' in cooking (something to do with sauce thickening) and something to do with a 'Green Fairy' cocktail...?!?
Bonus ten pointers - 2/3 - mistakenly thought that Billie Jean King had the most Grand Slam (tennis) titles - it's actually Margaret Court...
Round 6 - TV catchphrases/programmes - 10/10 - all far, FAR, too easy
Round 7 - Jeopardy - 6/10 - played this quite well - swerved four questions and rightly so as it turned out - a couple that tempted us (the four blood groups? - how many universities make up The Ivy League?) we maybe knew but weren't 100% so hedged bets... Special shout to Robson for knowing that the footballer named in the Only Fools And Horses theme tune is Trevor Francis.
Round 8 - music - 18/20 - all very straightforward - think we missed out on a 'Miracle of Joey Ramone' by U2, and that was it.
Second place scored 134 - the Hound pulled a smooooooth 145.*
(* In actuality, and only after an eloquent pointing out, from G-Force, of my utterly inexplicable brainstorm, it was the Hound who came second on 134 and thereby lost by 11 points - although apparently we took some small consolation in winning the sweets for the second week running...)
Nothing else to say other than my notes have 'Daren out - Pig in' written in very large letters on the only, otherwise, blank page - any ideas anyone?!
K
Purley Arms
With D2 away on holiday the four gathered hounds were delighted to have their number swollen to five with Lord Peterkins of Fatherhood making a welcome and gorgeous appearance just before kick off. Thereafter though the evening's sport was relatively straightforward, bordering on perfunctory...
The picture round - just bog-standard celebs in black and white photos - Sara Cox, Ronnie Ancona, Ross Kemp, Dave Gorman, Richard E Grant - you get the idea... 8/10
Round 2 - History - 7/10 - we got wrong the year in which women over 21 were given the vote (1928), the year construction started on the Berlin Wall (October '61) and something about South America where I distinctly remember saying 'INCA?' but everyone ignored me and we got it wrong but guess what the answer was...
Round 3 - Connections - one round earlier than usual I think (isn't it usually the fourth round?) - we got all nine AND the connection so for those that weren't there see if you can connect these answers; Brian, The Spanish Inquisition, Holy Grail, John Parrot, Albatross, Nudge, Liberty Bell, Spam & lumberjacks...
Round 4 - Food & Drink - 7/10 again (I think) - we got wrong; something about rotten Chinese eggs (?!?), the meaning of the term 'liaison' in cooking (something to do with sauce thickening) and something to do with a 'Green Fairy' cocktail...?!?
Bonus ten pointers - 2/3 - mistakenly thought that Billie Jean King had the most Grand Slam (tennis) titles - it's actually Margaret Court...
Round 6 - TV catchphrases/programmes - 10/10 - all far, FAR, too easy
Round 7 - Jeopardy - 6/10 - played this quite well - swerved four questions and rightly so as it turned out - a couple that tempted us (the four blood groups? - how many universities make up The Ivy League?) we maybe knew but weren't 100% so hedged bets... Special shout to Robson for knowing that the footballer named in the Only Fools And Horses theme tune is Trevor Francis.
Round 8 - music - 18/20 - all very straightforward - think we missed out on a 'Miracle of Joey Ramone' by U2, and that was it.
Second place scored 134 - the Hound pulled a smooooooth 145.*
(* In actuality, and only after an eloquent pointing out, from G-Force, of my utterly inexplicable brainstorm, it was the Hound who came second on 134 and thereby lost by 11 points - although apparently we took some small consolation in winning the sweets for the second week running...)
Nothing else to say other than my notes have 'Daren out - Pig in' written in very large letters on the only, otherwise, blank page - any ideas anyone?!
K
Monday 8 September 2014
Hounds Of Lust
Thursday 4th September 2014
Purley Arms
Ten pictures of book covers for Rd 1. 10 out of 10 scored with only The Mousetrap (which had a picture of a mousetrap on it) and The Hobbit (which had a picture of a hobbit on it) stretching us much.
A question about the elfin Kate Bush in the Current Affairs round led to the conjuring up of an enduring image of the bewitching songstress cavorting on a stage in Hammersmith clad only in white lycra some 25 years ago. Enough said. We then signally failed to know how much the first Range Rover might or might not sell for at some future date, A bit remiss of us in our divination skills. Get of the day went to Kev who knew that Bungay Town were offering punnets of mushrooms to anyone attending their next home fixture. Tangential to the questions was the surprising revelation that Tony Blair collects stamps and an unexpected picture of a tank and a Harrier jump jet on the 18th fairway at Celtic Manor. I haven't mentioned Q1 which was something to do with Boris Johnson as Kev seemed to be the only person on the team who even understood the question.
Near full marks on Rd 3. TV/Films, letting ourselves down on the age old conundrum of whether Indiana Jones was a teacher who dabbled in archaeology, or an archaeologist who taught in his spare time.
It's fair to say that we were slow on the uptake in the connections round, the penny finally dropping in Q7 somewhat fortuitously due to a feeble Jackie/Bobby Charlton jibe only made to pass the time. All of the other correct answers had famous siblings too. I personally own up to 2 wrong answers in this round. Not sure how I managed to name the wrong Laudrup brother ( a touch of irony, might have got the connection sooner if I had realised), and also not sure how anybody took my word for it on a film question. The slightest demurring of my Jessica Lange suggestion and I'm sure that I would have said that I actually meant Shirley McLaine (Oscar for Terms of Endearment, and sister of Warren Beatty).
3 ten pointers successfully negotiated, with the hound himself arriving just in time to fetch Ethan Hunt's surname out of the ether where Steve was chasing it down to no avail.
Top Ten round was replaced by film quotes. We could have done better missing out on 3, dismissing the correct answer by a large majority in the case of Fatal Attraction. It seems that the Glenn Close character was a nascent puppy boiler as well as rabbits. Most obscure quote came from the Marathon Man, the bit where Dirk Bogarde (I think) finds himself in the dentist's chair, a singularly less pleasant experience than that portrayed at Wembley in 1996 by Gazza, Sheringham et al. Further proof if it was needed was also given to the fact that there is little funnier than grown up (are we middle aged?) men quoting classic python (or other cult comedy) lines.
Didn't need to stick our necks out in the Jeopardy round and didn't do so crossing out 2 perfectly correct answers to be sure. The one we genuinely didn't know only appears in my scribbled notes as "W", answers on a postcard to the usual address.
Completely missed Toni Braxton and got the wrong Carpenters song on our way to 17 out of 20 in the music round, despite the usual technical hitches that go hand in hand with this becoming rather tired round.
A win then by a margin considerably vaster than that by which MK Dons beat Man Utd. All that was left was a routine domestic double gained by answering a question that boiled down to calculating (n/2) x (n+1) x 4, where n = 10. Simples.
No open top bus rides to celebrate this one then, but for some of the participants on to Fontwell Sunday.....
Graham
Purley Arms
4 hounds gathered (packed?) from the off, more about our late arrivee later. Good to see Daren back and raring to go.
Ten pictures of book covers for Rd 1. 10 out of 10 scored with only The Mousetrap (which had a picture of a mousetrap on it) and The Hobbit (which had a picture of a hobbit on it) stretching us much.
A question about the elfin Kate Bush in the Current Affairs round led to the conjuring up of an enduring image of the bewitching songstress cavorting on a stage in Hammersmith clad only in white lycra some 25 years ago. Enough said. We then signally failed to know how much the first Range Rover might or might not sell for at some future date, A bit remiss of us in our divination skills. Get of the day went to Kev who knew that Bungay Town were offering punnets of mushrooms to anyone attending their next home fixture. Tangential to the questions was the surprising revelation that Tony Blair collects stamps and an unexpected picture of a tank and a Harrier jump jet on the 18th fairway at Celtic Manor. I haven't mentioned Q1 which was something to do with Boris Johnson as Kev seemed to be the only person on the team who even understood the question.
Near full marks on Rd 3. TV/Films, letting ourselves down on the age old conundrum of whether Indiana Jones was a teacher who dabbled in archaeology, or an archaeologist who taught in his spare time.
It's fair to say that we were slow on the uptake in the connections round, the penny finally dropping in Q7 somewhat fortuitously due to a feeble Jackie/Bobby Charlton jibe only made to pass the time. All of the other correct answers had famous siblings too. I personally own up to 2 wrong answers in this round. Not sure how I managed to name the wrong Laudrup brother ( a touch of irony, might have got the connection sooner if I had realised), and also not sure how anybody took my word for it on a film question. The slightest demurring of my Jessica Lange suggestion and I'm sure that I would have said that I actually meant Shirley McLaine (Oscar for Terms of Endearment, and sister of Warren Beatty).
3 ten pointers successfully negotiated, with the hound himself arriving just in time to fetch Ethan Hunt's surname out of the ether where Steve was chasing it down to no avail.
Top Ten round was replaced by film quotes. We could have done better missing out on 3, dismissing the correct answer by a large majority in the case of Fatal Attraction. It seems that the Glenn Close character was a nascent puppy boiler as well as rabbits. Most obscure quote came from the Marathon Man, the bit where Dirk Bogarde (I think) finds himself in the dentist's chair, a singularly less pleasant experience than that portrayed at Wembley in 1996 by Gazza, Sheringham et al. Further proof if it was needed was also given to the fact that there is little funnier than grown up (are we middle aged?) men quoting classic python (or other cult comedy) lines.
Didn't need to stick our necks out in the Jeopardy round and didn't do so crossing out 2 perfectly correct answers to be sure. The one we genuinely didn't know only appears in my scribbled notes as "W", answers on a postcard to the usual address.
Completely missed Toni Braxton and got the wrong Carpenters song on our way to 17 out of 20 in the music round, despite the usual technical hitches that go hand in hand with this becoming rather tired round.
A win then by a margin considerably vaster than that by which MK Dons beat Man Utd. All that was left was a routine domestic double gained by answering a question that boiled down to calculating (n/2) x (n+1) x 4, where n = 10. Simples.
No open top bus rides to celebrate this one then, but for some of the participants on to Fontwell Sunday.....
Graham
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