Houndless Opportunities

Purley Arms
Thursday 27th November

Opportunities not taken. No Robson this week. An own goal and a missed sitter deservedly conspired to let in 'Busters' by 3 points. We managed to collectively (a) mishear 'Jane Eyre' as 'Wuthering Heights' worth 10 points, and (b) wrongly recall the German Flag to deny us 14 points in the Jeopardy round having successfully dodged 3 much harder q's. The middle stripe is NOT yellow. I was going to refer to these as schoolboy errors, but to be truthful the schoolboy in question would have to have been at least as drunk as we were.  

Not for the first time being in the Purley Arms felt like being in a parallel universe, one where hoards of females descend drinking large quantities of wine and being intimidatingly loud. It might have been this that prompted Daren to say "My dough has risen", I'm not sure, but it is a matter of record that he did say it. It later transpired that it was scouse Chris's birthday and she decided to celebrate by getting the girls together to do the PA quiz. Fair enough I guess.

It also emerged on the night that a tricky dilemma has presented itself to the Kevster, one that might involve him going on the lash with the Hound, pissing into small receptacles on the M25, not going to the cinema in Nottingham and persuading his Mum to pick him up in a drunken state from one of Surrey's many fine pubs, not necessarily in that order.

 

Scottish flavour to the picture round (it being St Andrew's day at the weekend). Full marks ensued, good get of Rhona Cameron by the Kevster, the other difficult one being correctly guessed as John Logie Baird which I think came up previously in Commonwealth Games week.

Current Affairs handled pretty well considering we all claimed to have being working too hard to look at the News, all right not ALL. Underestimated the auction price of Dooley Wilson's piano from Casablanca, and failed to get something to do with Steff McGovern's accent.

Rd. 3 was on nicknames, including the now mandatory Chelsea question (Chopper Harris), good job it wasn't Rolf Harris, might have got some colourful answers. 10 out of 10 a decent haul.

Connections was varieties of plums/damsons. Definitely a case of plumbing the depths. Had only heard of Victoria so not a lot to go on. I somewhat doubt whether the Hermann Goering variety is a best seller, especially in Germany but there you go. We went for Wagner's ring (Fnaar!).

20 points out of 30 in the next round, see also above. Top Ten was again replaced by True/False round. 16 points for this one. Not much to say about T/F questions.

The Bear traps avoided in the Jeopardy round included the number of yards in a mile, our closest guess was 1756, the answer 1760, (note to Kevster, therefore making the old 440 yds a 1/4 mile and the old hurdles race 1/16th mile). 7 lions on the Royal Standard was another, we would probably have gone lower. 

17 or 18 points on the music round but the damage already done. Debbie seemed very please that we had lost, last time we donate prize money to her causes. 

We have to be more ruthless, or not.

Graham