Lilly livered liberal Hound...

Purley Arms
30th October 2014
*posted by 'me' but written by G Hound*

My cryptic note for the pre-quiz discussion simply says 'Race Debate'. I'm pretty sure this related to a race that Kevin never ran when he was a cub, but nevertheless received a badge for. That must be it, what else could it mean?

 

Best first round for some time. No pictures of reality TV favourites or kitchen implements. Instead, film anagrams. All well-known films, all gettable eventually but made us work hard.

No notes for a lacklustre current affairs round, all I remember is that we weren't asked about the tree of the year, but we were asked about a baseball match where Kansas City lost in the final.

Halloween round, fairly routine except note for future reference;

31 October - Halloween

1 November - All Saints day or All Hallows     

2 November - All Souls day.

Great shout by Steve on the Dennis Wheatley question as well.

Connections - We got there eventually, all people/bands who have their own brand of perfume/after shave. We only missed some French bloke who makes things out of car hoods. So what.

A certain amount of confusion between Mickey Mouse and the Pope led to only 20 from the ten-pointers. 

Top 10 largest cities in the USA by population. After starting with New York you only need to name any city that you know in California or Texas to do well.

Most successful Jeopardy round for some time, answered and got right 7 out of 10. We dodged ornithophobia which turned out to be a fear of the things that ornithologists study. A bear trap if ever there was one. Apparently Ingmar Bergman, Scarlet Johannsson and Niall from One Direction all are/were ornithophobes.. Also dodged and didn't have a clue about Tonto's horse (Scout) or smallest US state by population (Wyoming).

The Jeopardy round also threw up a highlight when the quizmaster had to attend a call of nature JoLu (as I am now calling her) took over and what a sexy delivery she hass. Long distance flirting ensued until normal order was regrettably restored. No offence intended to Siobhan.

Romped home in the music for a routine victory overall.

To round off, a few of my cryptic notes that I never used this week;

Aitch not Haitch

Tabloid Sh**e

Jack the Lad Swinging

Charlton

Dean Farley

Cr*p Larry's Band 

Teenage cr*p

Most of the asterisks seemed oi stem from Robson's pre-quiz snifters at the KA. None of it offensive though.

Onto Saturday night when it is hoped that a Hound quorum will attend and behave reasonably at a quiz in the Scout Hut..... 

G-Hound