5 in Five - Chapter Two (aka Professional Hound)

Monday 9th February
The Woolpack, Banstead

Monday night so this must be Banstead. 5 Hounds gathered around the ‘Reserved’ table and settled down to see what would transpire.

 

Food: There were 3 burgers ordered. I can't state with any authority if they were any good as I didn’t personally partake but Graham’s one took a tooth out and his onion rings were ‘the size of a steering wheel’ albeit slightly tastier.  Kevster proffered up the notion of a 5 ‘Epic’ Kebabs in 5 nights challenge. I’ll leave him to update.*

 

 

 

Graham's almighty rings of battered onion

   

Characters: The Seating area soon filled up and the main preoccupation of the other participants (when they weren’t sipping their non-alcoholic deinks) seemed to be an on going game of changing tables. This was ably abetted by the bar staff who at random moments would come in and change the seating configuration.

 

Kevster spotted someone who was ‘smaller than a hobbit but with longer arms’ and we all enjoyed the one man Demis Roussos tribute act.

 

Duncan: The quiz master managed to get our collective hackles up almost immediately by accusing us of being a Professional quiz team on the basis that we had our own pens. He went on to earn our collective disdain by using some weird DJ voiced sound track to the quiz which was all bells, whistles, hooters and horns accompanied by a Patridge-esque monologue.

 

Questions:

 

Round 1 was TV character Photos. Scored 30 out of 34 – Interestingly this was the only round marked by handing your paper to another team. Joint first place.

 

Round 2 – Pass out -  You had to answer 3 lots of 5 questions and then strike one of them out – Odd. Questions became gradually more difficult. One that tripped us up was ‘what 2 words appear in the vertical lines on a cheque’ & ‘who officiated in the Hare & Tortoise race? 17/24 & back to 4^th place but in the money paying positions

 

Half time and Time for Bingo with a House prize of £220. Kevster came within 1. Graham became so mad he ripped up his bingo card not once but three times!!!!

 

Irritatingly close...

 

 

Round 3 - A music round with 2 lots of 20 tracks and artists but you were only allowed to answer 1 set. We went for the 60’s 70’s & 80’s selection unsurprisingly. We scored a 17 and now our suspicions were raised by the Quiz Master claiming we were in 5^th on 61 points but 30 + 17 + 17 = 64. We queried this with him and he grudgingly corrected our score. I almost threatened him with naming and shaming him in a blog with a readership of literally 10’s

 

Round 4 – Wipe out – Answer 1 wrong and you lose all your points so we trod gingerly and stuck with 5 out of 8 that we were confident of. We should have known what was coming...

 

Results: Strangely 4 teams who had not troubled the scoring previously managed to get all 8 Wipe out questions right and in a no way engineered result Hound finished 1 point off the Money paying positions in 5^th.

 

Conclusion: I shall not be going back. It was a very odd quiz what with having to discard half your answers and the Quiz master and his sound effects were quite tedious. Worst of all – It’s on a Monday night – I mean, really?

* Kevster passed on the challenge of 5 (epic) Kebabs in five nights and says he was foolish to ever think it was even remotely on

(written by Daren and posted on his behalf)