Partridge Bound Hound

The Purley Arms

15th January 2015

 

A trip to Partridge Green on Maundy Thursday now seems a real possibility for the Hound. A virtual tour of one of the pubs there indicated that Espresso and Dark Star Original are available all year around, but was less clear regarding the much vaunted Dark Star Imperial even on a seasonal basis, and downright vague about where the ladies loos are.

 

We were again welcoming the youngest (so far as I know) member of the Sullivan family to our team this week. After her success the last time out we were expecting big things, and were not let down as she demonstrated how to eat wotsits using only her fingernail (and her digestive system obviously). She also broke the previous record for the 4 yard dash to hand in the sweeties question by some margin. Welcome back any time. There was in fact a lot of  potato/maize snacks based banter which seemed to rate Frazzles as the Hound's favourite even ahead of Tyrells chipotle thingies.

 

Quiz went as follows;

 

Rd 1. Routine pictures of chocolate/sweetie wrappers in close-up.   

 

Rd 2. Current Affairs. We went round the houses to get Jaguar as the British car firm from the midlands planning to add an SUV to their range, but get it we did. A near miss involving Peter Pan and Alice In Wonderland was the only error we made.

 

Rd 3. TV/Films. Everything seemed to be from our era or comfort zone  and none too testing.

 

Rd 4. Only 1 team got the connection, I can't remember what it was right now. Not a great round, we couldn't remember the guy who designed the London Underground Routefinder (I'm told it is not a map). Also missed Amy Johnson and Michael Faraday. I remember now it was blue plaques on houses. I guess most people have to live somewhere.

 

We got 2 of the 10 pointers, but failed to identify the Maxila as the Jaw Bone, which may have ultimately been what let L&TT in to win the quiz. 

 

Rd 5. Top 10 UK airports (really must swot up on these). Should be called Rd 7 as that what we inevitably get.

 

Rd 6. We got the eight answers submitted correct, which is better than some recent attempts. Unfortunately we also got the other two correct waving goodbye to 24 points for not writing them down, or more accurately for writing them down but then crossing them out. The number of witches in a coven was the one which felt like a bear trap, we only settled on 13 quite late in the day after Steve made a connection with Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot'. Informed risk taking seems to be the way forward.

 

Music Rd. Our youth culture correspondent pulled Taylor Swift out of the bag. Kev and I were less successful, failing to remember Womack & Womack - 'Teardrops' despite both owning classic vinyl versions of it. Any quiz that includes Bobby Goldsboro's 'Honey' is though, all right by me. I just love the bit where she crashes the car and he just says 'What the heck'.

 

Not good enough on the day, third place I think. 

 

Not all was lost. Ashleigh's aforementioned dash along with Robin's call of nest for the family name of vipers secured the Maltesers for The Hound.

 

Random notes that I took, that don't really remind me of what they were about as follows;

 

No 1. in Nevada (something to do with Quiz App)

Schitzu/Pekinese.

Eye-Eye (some kind of animal reference)

Willie Wacker (German Andy Capp I think).

 

  

G-Force!