The One With The Hound

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!