Christmas Hound

Now regular readers of the blog may see the Hound as an unstoppable quizzing juggernaut steamrollering all in its path, rarely getting a question wrong. Well, by way of a counter view some of the wrong answers this week included:

- Mistaking various types of nut for types of jellyfish
- Entering Bruce Forsyth as an answer, the correct one being the King of Thailand
- Mistaking a picture of Mother Teresa for Lenny Henry

How did all this happen? Were the questions tougher, or us more pissed? Let's rewind.

I was bit late, Southern Rail had claimed Steve as a victim but I wasn't going to miss the last quiz of the year. Already in situ, Kevster, Daren and Graham were discussing the fiendishly difficult GCHQ Christmas quiz, what do they get up to down in Cheltenham?

Additionally Leeds were at Wolves on the telly and already 1-0 down.

First up and to make it more difficult all the faces were dressed as Santa with rather full white beards and Christmassy hats. Other than the aforementioned, we nearly mistook Cheggers for Bill Clinton, and we did mistake Donny Osmond for Ben Whishaw, probably not for the last time. Equaliser for Leeds!

We did ok on the current affairs and I think even question-spotted a couple. Next up was a brain teaser round featuring logical type questions. We actually spent more time debating the phrasing of the answers than actually arriving at them, I give you:

"Why can't you take a picture of a man with a wooden leg in British Columbia"?

Now "you can't take a picture with a wooden leg" restates the question rather than the concise "you need a camera"

Wolves 1 Leeds 3!

Connections and the randomness pointed us towards birthdays and with Graham having one, we'd be shot for not getting Christmas birthdays, multiple Brit award winner Annie Lennox sealing it.

Ten pointers were bagged, Patty and Selma being Marge's sisters, Sunderland not playing in claret and blue and various cocktails being non alcoholic. Half time assessment, the ten pointers nudging us in front but the Santas not helping.

Next up, now I don't know if Siobhan had backsolved this but how appropriate that the letter themed round would be Z for the last quiz of the year. Notes get a bit shaky here, zoology, zirconium, Zucchini and Zambia may or may not have been answers.

Final score, Wolves 2 Leeds 3!

Then we came to the meat of things with the jeopardy. Box was jellyfish, clout was jellyfish, or was it cloud? We went with it anyway. Where was Eric Liddell born? It looked like a banana skin, it smelt like a banana skin. We went Scotland anyway.

The way the results came out we would have had to nail the jeopardy to win, I.e. put down all our right answers and none of the wrong ones, something we've struggled with recently. Hey ho. Not sure we answered the original question, just call it a bad day at the office, something there's been fewer of recently.

So there we have it. Another year's quizzing. Or is it? Stop press, The Oval on the 30th for red wine, Xmas jumpers and a chance to exercise the brain one more time, like I won't spend much of Xmas day playing quiz up anyway.

The Strange Case of Hound and the Mammoth Jugs

Mr. Robson Holmes, who was usually very late in the evenings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the usual table. I stood at the bar and picked up my pint which  was engraved with the date "1664." It was just such a pint as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry -- dignified, solid, and reassuring. 

"Well, Daren, what do you make of it?" 

Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation. 

"How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head." 

"I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated Samsung Tablet in front of me," said he. "But, tell me, Daren, what do you make of this week’s picture quiz? Since we have been so unfortunate as to be landed with ‘Visual puns’ and have no notion of the answer to most of them. This fiendish opening round becomes of importance. Let me hear you answer by an examination of it." 

"I think," said I, following as far as I could the methods of my companion, "that number 7 is a is a pair of tea cups with mammoth’s heads and tusks for handles”. 

"Good!" said Holmes. "Excellent!" And so begun ‘the Strange Case of Hound and the Mammoth Jugs’.

Back in the real world, Kevster, G-Force, Steve, Robson and I pored over the 12 ‘Visual Pun’ pictures with some consternation. Most of them were so blurred that it was difficult to discern anything visual let alone decipher the punnerry

Pre quiz agenda items had consisted of the troublesome trysts of Kevster and the venue and format of this year’s Hound Xmas do. Robson, revealing his wild side, also offered to hold his house warming party on a Tuesday morning at 11.00. 

The visual puns troubled us for most of the first half of the quiz, especially the elephantine mugs and we finally settled on Tea Trunk as being marginally better than no answer at all. When the actual answer of ‘Mammoth Jugs’ was given, Kevster was apoplectic and audibly deflated all at the same time.

The rest of the first half of the quiz followed the usual format – Current affairs, History and then Connections. The connection caused a few more problems than usual: What links Ham, gate, jersey, port. Graham got that one by question 5 which is a bit slow for us.

Unfortunately the 10 pointers got the better of us – the origins of Masala Wine and the tube line Tuffnell Park is on proving elusive.

Having undertaken some market research during the half time interval it was obvious that some of the other teams had got the 10 pointers so this meant we would have to go for the full ten on the jeopardy round, always a risky strategy but Hound is as Hound does.

This week’s round 5 was brought to us by the letter Y. Fairly easy given there are only 14 words in the English dictionary that start with the letter Y as far as I’m aware and Yo Yo is 2 of them. Yogi Bear and Yootha Joyce made welcome appearances here.

And so into the valley of jeopardy rode the 5 (half a point and half a point more)

Unfortunately the designer of the VW and the club that Bruce Grobelaar scored for were to be our downfall (Porsche and Crewe Alexander)

And so the music became incidental. Fortunately we didn’t recognise the squealing f**kpig that is Justin Beaver but I imagine that we got most of the others.

Come the scores and our 10 pointer and Jeopordy failures cost us dear, finishing 2^nd last (oh the shame) although only 16 points off of first,so one of the 10 pointers and not answering Hitler and Southampton in the jeopardy round would have given us victory. All if’s, buts and maybe’s I know.

And so dear reader, this is where we leave The Hound for another week but look out for the next instalment – coming soon

Intercontinental Hound (19/11/2015)

Daren in Mexico, Robson bound for South Africa, looking forward to some good blog hitting statistics. A few games of macala to settle in and then an unfamiliar quiz mistress this week, with a pretty tough (we thought) set of questions.

The picture round was a mixture of Bond villains and Bond girls. Could have been worse had Robson not seen the new one after checking out yucca plants at IKEA, a couple were from that. The character names were requested which proved tough for e.g. Jane Seymour's character in Live and Let Die  and a few others. Quite a bit of groaning from all and just the film would do in the end.

IKEA came up again in the current affairs round, I am typing this up well after the end and have little recall of what was actually asked, but other answers included Japan, One Direction and Putin.

Round 3 was Science & Nature. The highlight of this round undoubtedly being what part of the body can be treated using a 'cockup splint'. It turned out to be wrist. Had this been the connections round, the answer would definitely have been merchant banking with other entendres for doing it by hand as well. Limnologists study lakes, arches, loops, whorls & composites were correctly identified by Kevster as fingerprints but I had an idea she ultimately gave a different answer? Other questions about chromosones, catgut, aluminium and helium.

The connections round concerned killers, Chrstie, Moat, Bird, Haig, Nilsson, Jack et al.

We missed the middle ten pointer which was "How many of the Magnificent 7 were alive at the end of the film", I think it turned out to be 4. We got 1936 as the year of three kings, and Utopia as Thomas More's island paradise.

The "W" round managed to wind me up. We got (Bruce) Willis after establishing that the surname starting with W was sufficient. We hen failed to get the Hitchcock film starting with W which was "Rear Window" I kid you not.

We were nowhere near getting the Jeopardy round maximum, too many where we didn't have a clue.

A respectable effort at the songs, not much was missed, but third place only with Lady & The Tramp convincingly out front. 

Could do better......

G-Force






         

Poetic Hound

This report fits neatly into 3 chronological sections:

Part 1 7.00 - 8.30

Kevster and Daren stared at each other (their words). Graham and myself  were delayed meeting up with some former L&G colleagues, one now Hong Kong based.

Part 2 8.30 - 10.30

The meat of the quiz if you will. First up:

Graham assured us he was top ten in the world on Famous Duos so this would be a breeze. Not many gaps as you see and Daren added 3- Rogers & Hammerstein.

Current affairs, which country in Africa has been declared Ebola free. We circled around W Africa, hankerchieves over faces before settling around Guinea, it was Liberia. Apparently additionally Kieron Dyer is to be on IACGMOOH. Paddy Power soon to open a book on how long he lasts until he breaks a leg.

Round 3 - Bond. The one featuring Halle Berry in a bikini vexed us, Die Another Day. What though, other than clothes/jewellery was Sean Connery never seen without as Bond? A cigarette, his Walther PPK? Cue collective head scratching.

Round 4 - Connections. The fall guy to Nayim's chip and the actor who played Dr Richard Burke in Friends sealed it for Graham. Question spotting ensued, Lord Kitchener, Merv Hughes and Jimmy Edwards would surely feature. No but the porn star with most "acting" credits did. We had Jeremy but Jeremy who? At this point Kevster found the need to relieve himself and dashed back excitedly with the solution. Ron Jeremy! What had provided the clue? We'll never know but lots of witty banter ensued.

Ten pointers - really quite easy.

Round 5 - the V round - Again our question spotting was a bit hopeless failing to predict Voldemort, Viagra and Venga Boys. We even talked ourselves out of Vince Vaughan, surely a double shot.

Round 6 - Jeopardy and question 1 was a teaser, the name of sharks' young. I'd have thought eggs but Daren was confident with pups and we cracked on. None of the others were quite as testy, the dartboard question helped by there being one in the pub. Should we go for it? We are Hound! It's what we do.

Music- one blank but even got the Ed Sheeran question. For chocolates, how many gas streetlights in London are there? Apparently, 1500, we were about 1500 out.

10.30 onwards

The Limerick

There once was a quiz team called Hound
Whose answers were unfailingly sound
No matter how pissed
There were no questions missed
And so off they walked with fifty pound

Credit Kevster for most of it, improvements by comment please, can't get the last line right.

Results, Hound 165, the rest nowhere, 107 being second.

Oh, his toupee was the Sean Connery answer.

Hound Punts Update 02

Update on our individual prediction punts, using the current cash-out value as the means of gauging progress...


Mr Green's - current cash out value, £11.71

D2's - current cash out value, £9.88

Mine - current cash out value, £9.93

Robson's - current cash out value, £0.00 - the Swedish season has finished and IFK Goteborg finished second

G-Force's - current cash out value, £10.45

A Tale Of Two Quizzes...

It was the best of quizzes, it was the worst of quizzes, it was a quiz of wisdom, it was a quiz of foolishness...

Thus wrote Charles Dickens - paraphrased to hell and back maybe but bear with...

Quiz The First

Applegarth, Braithwaite near Keswick
28th October 2015

Simply getting the teams picked had been a mission in itself - four teams of three, must be mixed gender, can't partner anyone you're married to nor can you partner anyone you're a parent to or a child of.  The twelve contestants chewed it over for a while before eventually the youngest amongst us grabbed a pen and some paper and worked out all the options and combinations - from which the team captains then randomly selected their players.

Twelve family members had gathered to celebrate the 70th birthday of the thirteenth attendee and, given that most of us present had on many occasions either joined or crossed swords in quiz battle, I had offered to compere a quiz for everybody.  And now finally, 72 hours, a couple of long walks, several large meals and one visit to the local vets later, the teams were identified, gathered and ready.  Quiz on...

Fortunately our location's extremely flakey wireless broadband network had one of its better hours during the opening round of the quiz - 'Feel Free To Use Your Phone' - featuring a range of questions unanswerable without the help of the internet even by a team of Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Brian Cox, Magnus Magnusson and that camp, bitchy, fella from The Eggheads. (eg - what is the post code of the London Theatre shares its name with the chemical element that boils at 2963 degrees centigrade? *)

Over the course of the day nine more rounds followed covering a range of topics from identifying dog breeds from various puppies through to guessing the mileage between varying combinations of attendee's post-codes with more traditional music and 'connections' rounds thrown in.

Suffice to say there were breaks for food, even more breaks for drinks and eventually a winner was declared around 0130h on Thursday morning.  Congratulations to Jane (Hamster), Ashleigh (Hound) and Mark (brother-in-law of no previously fixed team affiliation) who won by a handful of points with only one point covering the other three teams.

 The Applegarth Quizzers

 

 

 

Quiz The Second

Purley Arms, Croydon
5th November 2015

Pre-quiz chat included our nominations for possible answers to this week's anticipated 'U' category - we came up with, Ultravox, Uncle Remus, Ultraviolet, Uncle Bulgaria, Umbilical cord, Ursula Andress, Uzbekistan and Ullysses.

Mention of James Joyce's great work led to my making a statement -"I was recently given a copy of Ulysses but it's sheer size has put me off - thickest book I've ever had" - which I can now back up with evidence which I think you'll agree conclusively proves my claim...

Joyce's Ulysses - all 980 pages of it...

 

Anyhow.

 

Round 1 - ten politicians to identify from photos of one of each of their respective two faces...  We were confident we'd got 10/10 but we got number 8 horribly wrong.**

 

 

Round 2 - Current Affairs - footballers have bad teeth, Cameron 'wore' a digital poppy, Nigella Lawson has a recipe for avocado on toast and Tom Waits feels ripped off by Adele's new single.  Apparently.  We usually get seven out of ten here - with hindsight the writing was on the wall early on.  6/10

Round 3 - November 5th - other than knowing Guy Fawkes actual name (Tom Guido apparently) and who starred in Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Hanks & Bruce Willis) we had reasonable treason/firework/gunpowder/bonfire knowledge.  8/10

Round 4 - Connections - Gordon Brown, Wayne Rooney, Katie Price, Mario Balotelli, Jonathan Ross, Tony Blair, Sepp Blatter, James Hewitt and Lance Armstrong all share what in common... ***   9/10

Round 5 - 3 x 10 pointers - breezed them   30/30

Round 6 - 'U's - Umbro, Unibomber, Ugg Boots, Ulysses, Ugly Betty, Urals, Usher, Uriah Heap, Under Milk Wood and Uwe Rossler - we only got one of our pre-quiz predictions correct but all of the actual questions correct.  10/10

Round 7 - Jeopardy - not our best effort at this - confident on half a dozen of them, wary of a couple and stumped by a couple more we played safe and banked what we knew.  6/10

Round 8 - Music - with no anodyne male crooners to trip us up this week we styled it out for a smooth 20/20

In all, seven teams competed with final scores ranging from 89 to a very impressive 173 - the Hound came third with 148.

So, there you go - a tale of two quizzes.  All that remains is for me to post this and then do "a far, far better thing" and get myself some food.
 


*  W1F 7TF
**  Jacqui Smith and NOT, as we thought, Harriet Harman
***   They've all had effigies of themselves burnt publically

Hound, As Leeds Lose. Oh What EvEr Next?

 

Same team as for Saturday's away draw with Bolton. Sombrero Steve's first home match in charge, looking for a home win for the first time in nearly 8 months. Could there really be cause for optim... No!, didn't even notice that they had kicked off and Blackburn are ahead after 17  seconds. Worse news that Rhodes didn't score it, his customary goal yet to come, oh there it is 5 minutes in. Maybe I won't be quite so distracted as I thought from the quiz. Can't hear what the Elland Road crowd are singing, but imagine that both the Italian and the Scot are squirming in their seats. Definitely wouldn't trust the Scot near my pie and chips, and don't trust him near my team either. Surprisingly little abuse for me, decked out like a Christmas tree, from the resident Chelsea contingent. Sadly, they probably find Leeds underperforming (a euphemism if ever there was one) almost as predictable as I do.

First half of the quiz was heavily Halloween themed. We got all of the horror films in the pictures round, except for incorrectly naming 'Child's Play' as 'Chucky'.  Poor Current Affairs round, not knowing the name of a gun toting dog, venue of the Bond premiere, the former occupation of Jimmy Morales now Guatemalan president, or which foul mouthed actress said something or other. Answers were Barbara Windsor, TV comic, Trigger and the Royal Albert Hall, though not necessarily in that order. Missed two in the vaguely Halloween related round, decent effort.

All of 1-9 answered correctly in the connections round, but 3 bewildered faces as we sought to even find a connection for any chosen 3. The answer was staring us in the face, though Robson rather weakly claimed it was more difficult upside down, don't stand on your head I say. We now have to add checking for acronyms to the golden rules of the connections round, after considering that they all have a birthday today, or all relate to some specific kind of flora (we went for daffodils, don't think that this will even enable you to guess one of the answers), etc. See if you can get from the following list (see also Blog title).

Heptagon
Adele
Little Women
Life of Pi
Orang-Utan
When Harry Met Sally
Eagle
Elle McPherson
Norwich City

To be fair, only the young uns with their accompanying elder actually got it right.

Missed Templeton Peck in the 10 pointers, look it up yourself.

Second half (no, we are not still discussing the football). Ten answers starting with 'T', including tenuously 'The Nineties', at least Siobhan apologised for this liberty. An apology regarding the question itself would probably have been appropriate as well, a quick google comes up with the dates of 1887, 1913 and 1848 for Trafalgar Square riots  ahead of any mention of 1990 which to my mind is much better known as the Poll Tax riots and was far more widespread than just Trafalgar Square. We put the 1910's, so surely worth a picture of that year's shenanigans.

 


Bit peeved not to get 'Twelve Oaks' as the Wilkes plantation in 'Gone With The Wind', but bad luck that the other plantation 'Tara' starts with a 'T' as well (or one could argue a well laid bear trap). I would also  question whether Ipswich town are really nicknamed 'The Tractor Boys', but I guess it is in common usage. Ooh Arrrr!

It seems like the Jeopardy round has been beefed up since 3-4 teams nailed it on a couple of occasions. We only answered 5 this week and were still indebted to generous marking after mis-stating 'A Beautiful Mind' as 'A Brilliant Mind' - Daren being the first to point out that this was more closely related to an eighties classic by Furniture, than it was to a book/film about a mathematical genius.

Ones we missed were;

McCarron Airport - Las Vegas
Indy 500 celebration drink - Milk
Alfred Jingle - Pickwick Papers.
Bishop's hooked staff - Crosier.
Louis Reard 1946 invention - Bikini

Disappointed not to get the Dickens Q, but did manage to narrow it down to 4 one of which was the correct answer. Not worth gambling, far too much guesswork required.


Usual story in the music round, only missed P!nk's song and one other by I can't remember who. Hang on, I also have a vague remembrance of Adele being mistaken for Will Young? With a low score of 126 maybe we deserved to lose by 2 points on this occasion. Robson predicted a second place finish very early on, a self-fulfilling prophecy or just not good enough? The latter I fear.     

G-Hound


   

Whispering Hound

Right, good to be almost back up to full strength. Other than Graham who was out in Malta, checking what the flag looks like presumably, the regulars were all present and correct. Daren looked chirpier than he's been for a while and Kevster was approaching the end of his beard cycle, albeit accompanied by the campest ringtone I've ever heard.

Steve was also in fine fettle and gave us the reason behind his non-attendence a few weeks back. For a while now he's been a single man and while enjoying the freedoms that brings, we all have needs and had decided to dip a toe into the shark-infested waters of internet dating. He'd struck up a conversation with Roisin (Gaelic for Rose folks) on match.com who was, pausing for dramatic effect, a trainee dog whisperer.

This instantly threw up more questions than it answered. We did wonder whether Steve was having his chain yanked and this was a ruse to attract blokes but it had only come up in subsequent chat. During training she was working as a dog walker, presumably whispering to stop them fouling pavements, attacking people etc.

So how did the date go? Well it didn't, due to meet at the White Horse in Reigate, sadly one of Roisin's own dogs had a stroke and she had to stay in to look after the poor fella. Will they meet up? Keep reading the blog for more updates.

The quiz, well it was going to be an anticlimax after all that. First up:

Comments have been made that my pictures aren't that good. So here's allegedly a better one.

Doesn't even have colour.

The first picture is more relevant to the quiz, dingbat type things, twelve up there, think we got the ten we needed.

Given most of us were actually there this week I'll just provide highlights:

- Kidderminster has the most expensive pies in football
- By contrast, the most expensive cheese is a Serbian goats cheese
- Troika, Creme Anglaise, Millie and Aloha are all roses
- 10 pointers were pretty easy
- The Sri Lankan flag has a lion holding a sword
- We really weren't close on the Jeopardy and only submitted about four answers, one of which was wrong
- We actually recognised Ed Sheeran in the music, and almost got the track!

So the results, now busting the jeopardy we weren't confident.

102- BLTN - a couple of whom looked well up to the job if Roisin proves elusive
119 - The Lady and the Tramp. Plus the rest of the world and his wife. Barely room for them all round the table.
128 - Hound
137 - The Busters

No complaints, we were where we were. Kevster's in the Lake District next week, Daren's back at work and Graham should be back in the UK. Plus ca change for me I expect.

Miniature Hound

A late start today and low-key was the only way to describe it. Getting there just before 8 we were still the first there and the rowdy lot round the corner were fewer in number and less rowdy. Under the Hound Articles of Association, we weren't even quorate, owing to a variety of reasons we numbered just two. But you know how it is, gets to Thursday after long days at work, not had chance for a beer, no time to relax etc...

Of course none of this applied to me. But Steve had some justification so we fronted up. We'd thought of maybe joining another team but with only 3 other teams there it was hardly appropriate, Siobhan didn't even bother with the microphone.

First up was this lot:

Not me you understand, just providing context.

We excelled with our boy/girl band knowldge with Steve bagging Jo O'Meara from S Club and myself Simon Webbe from Blue (with prompting you understand). 3,7 and 10 were more elusive. 7/10

Current affairs was a make do job. However if you find a pizza in Finland for under 6 euros, there's probably tax evasion going on, Graham, you went recently so presumably can confirm. 7/10

Now, the Art & Literature, actually just literature, actually really just books, was devised specifically for Graham. So he would have known how long the Owl & Pussycat were at sea, who Valentine & Proteus were and what Thomas Keneally wrote. We didn't. 7/10.

Connections and Steve bagged it after answers of Quentin Crisp, Jose Carreras and Salvador Dali. Anyone? They are of course preceded by "San". This led to the usual question spotting but Miguel proved elusive. Not surprisingly though, a Spanish theme continued and we tucked them all away. 10/10.

10 pointers and now it gets serious. So where's Batman? Not the fictional caped crusader but the town in Europe? Not a clue. Thankfully though the smell of hydrogen sulphide was more familiar, particularly after a few pints and I think it was Kevster who supplied the 2012 Olympic mascots at a previous quiz which were still in the archives. 20/30.

Refreshed with wotsits are we're up to R - cue inane piratical noises from TLATT. You know we did ok here. The famous first line "Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley" eluded us though. No doubt Daren or Graham would have known. A thoroughly respectable 9/10

Jeopardy and with only two, we had to tread carefully. However Steve knew the place Joan of Arc was burned (not, the stake obviously) while I knew who Shawn Carter is (doesn't that just say it all) and we were off. Three questions vexed us, Bert and Ernie were characters in a film, what was the codename for the D Day landing and what does the C stand for in Unicef? I had Operation Overlord as a large WW2 operation somewhere and children seemed logical but we didn't know the whole acronym. 1 escaped us completely though so we opted out of guessing. 7/10 - surely not enough based on recent weeks.

Music and we knew them all except for the most recent two, something by Bieber and something by Pink. So, probably did the rest of the pub. 8/10

How many nights in Arabian nights? Our speed to the answer was only matched by its inaccuracy, no double tonight that's for sure.

Onto results and it wasn't going to take long. My private prediction was 3rd. So:

108 - The Busters

124 - TLATT

126 - Anoraks

132 - Hound!

We'd won. We naturally basked in the glory, the rest of the team are passengers, that sort of thing but it was with a score that wouldn't make the podium most weeks on a quiz that really didn't feel much different. Odd. Pleasing as it was, hope we're up to full strength next week.

Missing answers:

Ollie Reed, Kym Marsh, Marlon Brando

A year and a day, Two gentlemen of Verona, Schindler's Ark

Turkey

Rebecca

A wonderful life

1001

Hound Fever

4 hounds congregated, myself, Steve, Kevster & Robson. Plenty of concern from other teams re Daren's continuing absence, best wishes to be passed on.

Early doors Robson regaled us with a tale (tail?) from a recent run, involving a pitiful creature somewhat disorientated not knowing whether it was coming or going, and a small white terrier. Mugswell has rarely seen such goings on, and set me wondering if there is an official record marathon time for somebody carrying someone else's dog or other pet, I think that we should be told?

First round was pictures of TV comedies, all successfully named with 'Scrubs' and 'My Name is Earl' being the only ones to stretch our collective knowledge, and then not much.

Two gaps in the current affairs round, Stevie Wonder has recently divorced in LA and been told to pay £25,000 pcm for maintenance of his child from the marriage in question.' Sufragette' premiered in Leicester Square this week to a background of female protestors. Little did we know but this was more points than we would drop in the remainder of the quiz!

Round 3: Stephen King books/movies. Our Steve would have come close to a clean sweep on his own here, even being selected as an adjudicator for one of Siobhan's answers that was challenged, the rest of us managed to make the sweep clean. All the old favourites were covered, Shining, Misery, Carrie, Shawshank Redemption, Cujo, Running Man etc., except no room for the masterly suspenseful 'Duel'.

Round 4: Connection was celebrities not necessarily known for singing who had UK hit singles. We got it around half way through which is I guess par for the course. Another full house.

Ten-pointers all negotiated safely, guessing that the Big Savoy 5 (formed in 1926) became the Harlem Globetrotters was as far we had to stick our collective necks out here.

Two televised fiercely contested Euro qualifiers came to a close during our interval, with at least one Irishman present seemingly hitting the ceiling if his scream was anything to go by.

The format for the first round of the second half of the quiz is by now encouraging familiar. A little game to guess answers starting with Q before hearing the questions was won by either Quisling or Quantam depending on your viewpoint. My viewpoint favours the Norwegian traitor. Steve again on fire with Quinzy for a complication of tonsillitis, only an extinct zebra like animal escaping our ken. Still can't remember what it was called. We also learned about Kevin's Quantocks during the course of this round, not a pretty thought.

For the second week running, there were multiple Jeopardy completists. The first question about macaques calls for a picture of said animals. As I recall, and let it be a matter of record, nothing controversial was said at this stage. Moving on swiftly.....



   

Questions 2 and 3 less than encouraging, the old Gorbachev/Yeltsin dilemma for the first president of the Soviet union reared it's ugly head, and a clear Bear Trap regarding the US film adaption of Nick Hornby's 'Fever Pitch'. Clearly not going to be about soccer, but is it American Football or Baseball?

After this we picked up with 7 certs, and managed to come to a majority verdict in favour of Gorby with no dissenters. On to the music round with still the one 50/50 decision outstanding. All songs nailed except the Rihanna song title. Steve then took it upon himself to go with baseball for the 'Fever Pitch' question with no time for anyone to dissent, and the rest is history, a storming 183 points from a possible 190.

Lastly, but certainly not leastly, the Hound blog pays tribute to the Lighthouse Family. Vocalist par excellence Tunde Baeyiwu, and keyboard player Paul Tucker. 'High' an Australian number one no less, and the 'Ocean Drive' album surely defining the nineties for some (see Gemma below). 

Big up to Gemma Gould, an uber fan who persuaded the guys to reform in 2010 for a UK & Ireland tour finishing triumphantly at Morley Town Hall in Gemma's home town. Gone (hopefully this time) but never forgotten.


  
G-Hound

Towering Infernal Hound

A slightly odd one this week. Having arrived first at the pub I was ostracised for the first twenty minutes or so. Hopefully this was because the usual Hound table was occupied, thankfully at around 8pm it was freed up and normal service resumed. The same could not be said of the table behind us, The Lady and the Tramp and The Anoraks arrived at around the same time and an almighty fight broke out. Missing Debbie though, TLATT were disadvantaged and skulked off to a dark corner.

Onto the quiz then, missing Kevster, carousing with brother, and Daren, dead from the waist down (an improvement on last time frankly), we were a tight threesome. Pictures were sports personalities:

We got all those, question answering being stronger than photography.

Round 2 - current affairs. Despite two of us having as much time and we'd like to keep abreast of things we didn't know an RAF uniform would cause offense in hospital, Hugh Jackman fancies George Clooney, Jaywick is a sh**hole and the Palestinian flag was just raised over the UN building ( 0 for 2 on flag questions.)

However what the heck we did know about was numbers or rather numerical answers. Actually, not quite true, the psalm number of "Lord is my Shepherd", wives of Charlie Chaplin, number of "gentle breeze" on Beaufort scale and Clinton's auguration year also escaped us (see below). We more than made up for it though by demonstrating the cube root of 8 is not a single number and has 3 solutions, albeit 2 of them imaginary.

Connections and no excuses from the individual questions as we bagged them all. We completely failed to string them into types of "ant", the absence of "army" as an answer eliminating any hope I had.

10 pointers and we wrestled with the film Heaven 17 had taken their name from. An answer was dashed in, along with Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt's claim to fame and the Margaret Mitchell novel.

Steve played the D2 role at halftime and established there was no clear water and Jeopardy would have to played on its merits. First would be the "P" round ( yes, Graham did say it). Other than a baffling mix up between North Korean and Cambodian capitals, we arrived relatively unscathed, maybe one day we'll arrive scathed?.

Seven answers were more or less 100% (coughs), leaving us with the birthplace of Stollen, location of the largest malt whisky distillery in the world and components of bronze. We surveyed the room, we had plausible answers for all 3 but none were 100%. What to do?

Solution - defer the decision and let the music play, which was one of the song titles we didn't get, along with some One Direction thing. Graham though was ready for Bruno, shame it didn't come up this week.

Right, answers of Germany, Japan, copper and tin and a pathetic effort at the steps on the Leaning Tower of Pisa were handed in and the Hound crossed its paws.

Rather what we actually did was google those answers we weren't sure of and the afore mentioned 3 were all correct! Being cautious sorts though, we checked others, yes, John Lowe was Stoneface, yes Monet did paint the Water Lilies, no, Paul Newman wasn't the fire chief in the Towering Inferno.

Disaster and we awaited the results with dread. Apparently 4 teams had bagged the Jeopardy so at least our decision to go for it was right. The scores climbed, 145, 147 but no Hound? 153, 158, still no Hound, what was going on? Then Siobhan announced, winners on 166, Hound!

This couldn't be right. We looked at each other, we couldn't be having this and asked Siobhan to check our jeopardy round. Quick recalculation, winners on 158, The Busters! Blushes spared and collective sighs. The Busters generously bought Graham and myself a pint each and we talked the evening events over. Until next time.

Appendices

24, 4, 3 and 1993

A Clockwork Orange, the last men to walk on the moon and Gone With The Wind

Possible trips to Wimbledon dogs, 7th November and 5th December. Check diaries and report back.

Vast quantities of sloes near Warlingham RFC. Unless our vast readership gets there first.

Bighound Strikes Again...

Purley Arms, Croydon
24th September 2015

Apparently we're on a run of (almost literally) hysterical Hound/Smiths pun blog titles and in my desperate attempt to conform I've gone and given away the result before I've even started - yes, we won - that's two on the trot now and more useful beer tokens to put towards this year's Xmas Xtravaganza.

Speaking of which topic, it formed part of the early discussion before the questions got underway - what is the collective Hound to do for Xmas this year?  I propose initial suggestions be submitted via a comment below for dutiful consideration and subsequent discussion.

Further 'pre-match' discussions included a de-brief on the annual, late summer, outing to the races with all who attended reporting an enjoying trip to Plumpton despite Robson of House Hound doing his level best to jigger the entire outing by forgetting the tickets.  Other discussion highlights included Robson, still of House Hound, declaring that he had played host to a house guest from Whiffenshire, G-Force and the Green one making Focused size comparisons and G-Force attempting to bring up the fact he'd bought a new washing machine for Mrs G-Force only for me to cut him off mid-flow, so to speak, as my washing machine had been, AND STILL IS, on the blink.  Please see the not-at-all-in-any-way-suggestive photo of my washing machine's filter below - an item with which I have spent far more time this last week than is good for anybody...

There was also contemptuous dismissal of the (actually) hysterical (online mostly) reactions to the lurid revelation about the Prime Minister's University initiation ceremony although it does allow me to continue the Smiths theme and link to the only satirical take on the bombshell that actually made me smile - an adapted take on a classic Smiths song, 'Pig's Mouth Strikes Again' by the long established tribute act, The Iain Duncan Smiths - song and lyrics to be heard and read here along with a charitable donation purchase as you see fit...

Onto the quiz then...

1 - Pictures - ten items of food - fortune cookies, Pineapple, Toblerone, Corn on the cob, Dragon Fruit, Artichoke, Terry's Chocolate Orange. bulb of garlic and dried apricots being the nine we got correct - the one we missed was some strange sort of squat, yellow pepper looking kind of thing - can't for the life of me remember what the given answer was...

2 - Current Affairs - more fairly standard stuff although we failed to get the King of Thailand (can't remember the question) and one of us *ahem* was overruled on a Bond theme related question so we ended up incorrectly putting Shirley Bassey and not Adele.  8/10

3 - Sport - I took my chance to immediately get my own back here (ultimately) incorrectly suggesting Fatima Whitbread when it should have been Tessa Sanderson and none of us got that 'Brown' is the belt in Judo awarded before the black belt is gained.  The round did contain a couple we were able to 'work out' so to speak as opposed to know - the actuaries amongst us disdainfully dismissed, 'how many shots would it take to compile a 147 break' with a hasty "36" and G-Force got into full on list mode to determine the most popular suffix for a Football Club...*   8/10

4 Connections - we struggled with a few specific answers but were confident enough of the connection by the end that we went back and filled in our gaps only to get a couple of them wrong!  The nine answers were Bernie Hyde (although we put Frank Bruno), George Michael, Stephen Fry, Lester Piggot, Ricky Tomlinson, Boy George, Ian Wright (although we put Mickey Quinn), Paul McCartney and Cynthia Payne - what connects them all...!? **   8/10

5 - 3 x 10 pointers - Who was Man of the Year in both 1939 and '42?  In which county is Toaster?  And which artist painted the Laughing Cavalier?  We returned a respectable but, with hindsight disappointing 20/30  ***

6 - all began with the letter 'O' - piece of cake with a clue of that significance - 10/10

7 - Jeopardy - a good few here we weren't 100% about so swerved - how many Jenga pieces are there in a box?  Which is the only US President to have served three terms?  And something I can't remember but for which the answer was Tom Collins!  ****   7/10

8 - Music - 18/20 failing completely to get either song or artist for 'Marry You' by Bruno Mars.  The bitterness of missing out on a full house sweetened considerably by the mutual satisfaction of collectively not having a clue about Bruno Mars or his music.

All of that was good enough for 138 points and first place with second place gaining 116.

The only other thing my crumpled sheet of notes reveals is, in very large writing, 'First Premiership Goalscorer?!?' which I vaguely remember was, for some reason that completely escapes me now, contentious.  Anyway, it was Brian Deane although I would've staked ten of your English pence on it being Teddy Sheringham.  Ho-hum...

And so to close with the earlier promised picture of the filter from my washing machine...

... oh, do stop giggling at the back of the class there you lot...




*  most popular Football Club suffix is 'City'

**  they all spent time in prison

***  Joseph Stalin (we said Adolf Hitler!?!), Northants and Frans Hals (special mention there to G-Force for sticking by his Laughing Cavalier artist shaped guns)

****  54 pieces in a box of Jenga and FDR was the 3-term US President apparently...

Hound Punts Update...

Update on our individual prediction punts, using the current cash-out value as the means of gauging progress...

Mr Green's  -  current cash out value, £9.88

D2's  -  current cash out value, £16.61

Mine  -  current cash out value, £9.67

Robson's  -  current cash out value, £7.26

G-Force  -  current cash out value, £11.62

Hound Soon Is Now?

Quorate by just after 6 pm, 5 hounds joined by two guest hounds, Mr S and Jane, great fun subsequently had by all.

Q: How do you make a Maltese Cross?

A: If you stretch the definition to include other Mediterranean islanders then trip him up on a flags question would seem to do the trick. As any schoolboy knows the whole island of Malta were awarded the George Cross after WWII leading to the medal itself being depicted on the Maltese flag. Well, I must of been off school when they pointed out that the medal has St George and a dragon on it. Daren guessed it to be fair, even if his logic wasn't 100% correct.

Two birthdays to report, Kevster becoming semi-obtuse before our very eyes, and Steve's coming up  at the weekend on the same day as my nephew. My nephew is getting a LEGO ninjago boulder blaster, Steve may have to settle for a pint at Plumpton races on Sunday. Kev was toasted with two rounds of variously coloured shorts, of the kind that one would normally associate with binging teenagers, purchased from our winnings (apologies for the result spoiler).

Being his birthday, Kevin naturally reminisced, regaling us with tales of lucky heather, god-squad dodging, naked protests and (it says here) hamster squeezes. Robson had problems with the size of his data and appeared quite pixilated and irked at one point. Daren visibly winced when mentioning his latest contact with a rubber glove, before reeling off an impressive list of drugs that he is on that would probably have kept even the Happy Mondays quiet for an hour or two. Steve arrived slightly later then the rest of us having come from something called 'work'. Strange times indeed. I merely reassured everyone that the pig continues to be well looked after chez moi.

There were questions too, relating to Coronation Street characters, dragons, things with a size (big, small, long, little etc.) in their title. Things starting with 'N', songs by Elvis/Freda Payne/Dolly & Creedence. The latter spookily being number one on the very day that Kevster was born, it was the one sometimes misheard as 'There's a bathroom on the right'.  We nailed the 10 pointers and got all of the jeopardy answers including the two that we crossed out. A win by a decent margin.

Today I have mostly been listening to Spear of Destiny and the Cure. Both seem to have a good groundswell of support in the Hound, so many classic songs. As well as Plumpton races notice is duly given of another Hope beer festival next weekend.

Hound In Glove

An early start for me this Thursday. With an error that couldn't even be described as schoolboy, I arrived at the gym without any footwear. This curtailed it all somewhat and consequently I was first in.

Having not been sure of a quorum 24 hours before, it was a pleasure to see all the regulars roll in though Graham didn't make it until 9ish. Daren explained that the jam had oozed out of his doughnut, thought that had happened years ago frankly. Kevster then regaled us with a biblical style tale involving 15,000 of the sugary deep fried jammy things and the London to Brighton bike ride.

The pub was filling up and the oestrogen positively wafted over from the table oposite, someone dropped and smashed a glass, everybody cheered, naturally.

"King" Louis would be this week's quizmaster and announced the picture round would be "name the fruit". Expecting the likes of Stephen Fry, Elton John etc. I was mildly disappointed to see this lot.

Being Louis there was one on the other side, a blackberry I think.

Louis is no respector of convention and round two would be the week in television. So we had

- Who's hosting BBQ Champ? The man v food fella, Adam Richman. Is he?
- What century was Ripper St set in? Never seen it but surely Victorian?
- What is the Lotto Quiz. In it to win it was our best shot but has that finished?Something with the tedious Nick Knowles in probably
- What Saturday night favourite is back. Strictly! Squeals from the table opposite.
- Which Atomic Kitten is in CBB? After Heidi Range I had nothing. Fortunately Steve wrestled Natasha Hamilton from the memory bank. Which bank? I didn't ask.
- Who hosts Room 101- we all knew
- Who's back co hosting with Phil Schofield. Liked Daren's answer of Gordon the Gopher but Holly Willoughby was more pragmatic and at the end of the day, more right
- What TV quiz show does Ben Shepherd host. Who?
- Who's got Champions League? BT sport. Might have to get that.
- Who hosts Eggheads? Did he want Dermot or Jeremy? We put both
- Nothing on Uni Challenge or Only Connect. Isn't VC-M massive though?

Next round and another curve ball from Louis with the connections as round 3. Crazee! It was monarchs of England/UK etc. and they're not an imaginative lot, 8 Henrys and 8 Edwards will testify so it wasn't tough.

Next lakes, inland seas and rivers. Cannon fodder for us Oceans, Lakes and Rivers fiends so on to 10 pointers.

Where was the Magna Carta signed - well technically it was sealed but we all knew.
Whose real name is Royston Vasey - standard quiz fare. Is he actually funny?
What's the church in Barca - Sagrada Familia from Daren. Someone should tell Louis van Gaal this as he's just spent £20m on him.

Round 5 and music anagrams. Here's a picture to save me typing.

Jeopardy and cutting to the chase, it emerged that Graham had a tellytubby a gram for his stag party! Just let that one sink in for a while, it was Po by the way. In terms of the actual quiz, what's a place of worship with a spire on an OS map. I'm probably reading more maps than most, but I also get lost more and ultimately wasn't confident enough to go 1 on 4. Along the way we also struggled with the live wire in a plug but ultimately got there, maybe get the electrician in next time.

Music

I like this picture thing.

Would we win? Daren and myself said no and we were the ones proved right. High scoring though.

You Houndsome Devils

Bit late getting there today, detained on the golf course. Ashleigh was a late replacement for Steve who joined Daren on the injured list. The chocolates she brought along were more than welcome.

Kevster chucked in the Wimbledon 8 as a possible future Hound event, why the hell not? Apparently Ollie Reed managed two laps in one hour forty, we'd struggle to do that as a relay but has to be on the list.

Onto pictures and a bunch of newsreaders to kick us off. Knowing your Kirstys from your Kates would be important here and we kind of failed.

Current affairs and one of the more memorable questions was centred around Jermain Defoe's advert for a PA to water his flowers and grow his global brand. There's a few of us possibly entering the job market soon but somehow that one doesn't quite appeal. Otherwise we did ok, actually we didn't but who'd have known ketchup was rebranded in Israel as tomato seasoning?

Looking at the next round, I guess but don't recall that the theme was 20th century history. Been bashing the history topics in quizup so this was fun. Biafra was a new one for me though and hadn't realised the guillotine was recently abolished ( by Mitterrand ). Here's the pig.

Connections and didn't this prove to be a tricksy round. Frankly reading the answers back myself Barrel, Train, Camel, Dole, Yoke, Army, Wedge, Kindle and Murder it's still not leaping off the page. Collective nouns though was the solution.

Haven't made a note of ten pointers but recall that it was JRR we failed to name. Sure we've had this before, probably will again and still fail. John Ronald Reuel for posterity.

Next round was a list of Ls, think we got them all. Thought, we could revise everything beginning with M for next week? Then again, maybe we won't bother.

Connections and the first question "Name Moe's cat in the Simpsons" kind of put a dampener on things. We didn't know what Grevys or Burchell's was, sounded antelope but proved to be zebra. After Mr Snookhams though, we settled for what we could get and came through unscathed.

Think we got all the music, so it was onto the chocolates question. Now Graham had pre-prepared an answer of 62 so when the question of how many times was Tower Bridge raised in a year, in the absence of anything else, we went with it. Around 1000 apparently, have never seen it.

The results, not an epic Hound performance but one where we'd had to roll up our quizzing sleeves. Cutting to the chase Dave Ja Vu 126, Hound 126 and to add spice, DJV were the team formally known as the Hamsters. So tie-breaker and how many Tolpuddle martyrs were there? We didn't know and went 15, DJV 8, the answer 6. And you know what? They weren't even martyrs. Pathetic.

Well with the senior members of the DJV team about to decamp to Avonwick in Devon, it was all too much. Too young. One more quiz as an L&G employee.

Hound Predictions 2015/16...

Mr Green's

D2's

Mine

Robsons

G-Force

We're on.

I have the table's breaking down the different combination payouts if anyone wants theirs...

配方猎犬

 

Stardate August 6-15 and the away team had landed on a rocky outcrop known as the Purley Arms, frequented by the flotsam and jetsam from all 4 corners of the universe (if the universe indeed does have corners). A ‘wretched hive of scum and villainy’ and that was just our table.

 

Unable to escape we were forced to imbibe some sort of amber liquid, which slowly rendered us senseless, and then subjected to a 2 hour interrogation by the evil empress Sio Bhan.

 

First up was Dingbats. All of which were easily despatched apart from ENTURY *

 

Second round was current affairs, the first of which vexed us no end. Something along the lines of “what have biologists challenged the UK to come up with a top 10 of ?”.

“What madness is this?” I hear you ask 

“Exactly” I reply (I’m not much of a conversationalist)

Biology, as I’m sure you will agree, is a bit of a wide remit ranging as it does from Amoebas to Zebras so we plumped for insects which I believe was right.

 

Round 3, as it’s popularly known, was Cowboys, Indians and Outlaws (I know what I am, but which are you?)

This round’s most vexatious question was what custom did some Indian Tribe introduce? We were torn between scalping and war paint, as is so often the case but it turned out to be Ghost dancing. (For some reason, someone has written ‘Daren Sucks cock’ on the answer paper at this point. I hope it wasn’t me).

 

Round 4 -Loads of various people, Aldrin, Hanks, Murdoch but no obvious connection. Graham postulated, Steve Pontificated, Kevin Conjectured and Robson re-arranged himself, all to no avail. We got it into our heads that they were characters from Toy Story but turns out that they’d all appeared on the Simpsons.

 

10 pointers I think we managed all 3 which, if my maths is correct, equals 30 points (Robson, please confirm). The only one I can remember is Glandular Fever. Another one that I remember is the League of Nations.

 

I have no notes for the second half – the amber liquid was obviously kicking in by that stage.

 

There was a round where every answer started with an I. I think we aced it. Aye, we did.

 

On to the housewives favourite, the Jeopardy round (Jeopardy jepərdē –Noun = danger of loss, harm, or failure: synonyms: in danger · in peril) If I’d known any of this, I wouldn’t have entered, I’m not sure my Insurance covers me for this.

Anyway, enough of such ramblings, we swerved one question on the basis that we had the 3 x 10 pointers in the bag (It is 30 isn’t it Robson?). Much to Steve’s chagrin it turned out that the proposed answer of Hurling was actually right but no matter, onto the music. 

 

I cannot recall any of the music but helpfully at this stage someone has added to the notes “Daren is a Puff”. I know what you’re thinking - but who did the original?

 

Scores ranged from 80 – 154 with the Hound managing one of those.

 

Robson bought me a vodka to celebrate and then I woke up to the alarm telling me it was 6:10. Had it all been some weird dream? Tune into next week’s episode to find out.

* Long time no C

 

2015/16 Hound football predictions/punt...

I understand from recent communications that I'm to organise this year's collective football predictions/punt - therefore...

My thoughts;

• last year's was a shambles!
• the odds were ludicrous and we were almost all out after the first two 'hurdles'
• this year's should be more realistic and structured so as to maximise the chances of some sort of return

 

Accordingly I suggest;

• five predictions
• each prediction to be the winner of a top domestic European league of your choice (see below for the list of all 'premier' leagues covered by Bet365)
• entirely up to the individual which league/winner they choose
• bet to be placed as a 'Super Yankee', i.e. overall bet broken down into 26 individual, smaller, bets covering each of the possible combinations of 'win'
• stake to be decided by each individual according to their means/confidence
• people can choose straightforward 'five-fold' bet if they prefer

The 'Super Yankee' option should maintain interest in our respective punts for pretty much the entire season.  Keep it as straightforward as you want - England, Scotland, Spain, Germany and France - or go as diverse as you want - Portugal, Switzerland, Turkey, Wales and Denmark. 

 

For example;

1 England - Man Utd @ 5/1

2 Spain - Real Madrid @ 13/8

3 German - Bayern Munich @ 1/10

4 Holland - Ajax @ 6/4

5 Wales - TNS @ 4/9

 

As a five fold that returns at 58.43/1 but you get one prediction wrong and you get nothing.

 

As a 'Super Yankee' at £0.10 per stake (£2.60 total outlay) it returns as follows;

Wins         Odds          £££s

1/2           14.75/1       1.57
1/3           5.60/1         0.66
1/4           13.25/1       1.42
1/5           7.66/1         0.86
2/3           1.88/1         0.28
2/4           5.23/1         0.62
2/5           2.79/1         0.37
3/4           1.61/1         0.26
3/5           0.58/1         0.15
4/5           2.43/1         0.34
1/2/3        16.32/1       1.73
1/2/4        36.40/1       3.74
1/2/5        21.75/1       2.27
1/3/4        14.67/1       1.56
1/3/5        8.53/1         0.95
1/4/5        19.58/1       2.05
2/3/4        5.85/1         0.68
2/3/5        3.17/1         0.41
2/4/5        8/1              0.90
3/4/5        2.77/1         0.37
1/2/3/4     40.14/1       4.11
1/2/3/5     24.02/1       2.50
1/2/4/5     53.03/1       5.40
1/3/4/5     21.64/1       2.26
2/3/4/5     8.90/1         0.99
1/2/3/4/5  58.43/1       5.94

 

By way of another example;

Austria - Rapid Vienna @ 7/4, Denmark - FC Copenhagen @ 7/10, Ireland -  Dundalk @ 1/6, Portugal - Benfica @ 6/4 and Turkey - Galatasaray @ 7/4 comes in at 36.49/1

 

List of 'premier' domestic leagues covered on Bet365;

England, Scotland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Holland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Russian, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey & Wales

Those who were interested could possibly choose to add a sixth variable into the mix - I would suggest the winner of Euro 2016 - but to cover all the options as per the 'Super Yankee' idea above means 57 smaller, constituent bets - giving rise to the name the 'Heinz' - meaning the minimum stake would be £0.10 x 57 = £5.70

Any questions/suggestions then comment below for a response...