Hounds Of Lust

Thursday 4th September 2014
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