The Windsor Castle, Carshalton
It's Tuesday so it must be Carshalton. The music quiz at the Windsor Castle. I've never liked those lists "1001 things you must do before you die", but if forced under gunpoint to make my own list then winning the music quiz at the Windsor Castle would feature in the top few hundred. For quite a while it didn't seem very likely..... tbc
It was at this point having already made inroads on a packet of chocolate chip Maryland cookies that I broke off to watch the full splendour of Gael Whatshisname's from Breaking Bad's version of Major Tom (the Peter Schilling hit). Glorious, watch to the very end (Kevin, being far more technically competent than myself you could probably add a link to the youtube video here)...
... if not, then a picture of Robson's 'Windsor Chicken' would suffice with a caption along the lines of 'a typical Windsor Chicken seen last night'.
"... a typical Windsor chicken seen last night..."
The newspapers that were being slagged off along with any politicians that have the temerity to stand for any office and I think the amount of money paid for football rights would probably break up their coverage with just such a picture and caption.
At this point of the evening Canned Heat were playing for the first time, a totally innocent occurrence you might think. Far from it. Two elderly hippies setting the quiz already had their eyes on sarcastic ribaldry if at all possible. Areolas, perineums and Alan Partridge then merged into one as the quiz itself finally got under way.
7 (Seven) seemed like a pretty poor return out of 15 (Fifteen) on the general music trivia round, good questions though. Yours truly nearly turned this into 6 by being so pretentious as to answer Kingston-Upon-Hull when just Hull would have sufficed. Guiness' profits had already shown an upturn by this stage.
Pictures next I think, 'TALTS' was the knee jerk reaction based on receipt of the question sheet. Tired and Lame Torch Singers indeed, but 9 out of 15 again seemed like a poor return. 2 points off last place at this stage, way adrift of the lead. Meanwhile, rumblings of an upset at the Madjeski were beginning to surface (0-0 at half time).
A music quiz must surely get to the point where songs are played, only 1 set, no need to cross half of your answers out. A very respectable 12 out of 15 achieved, but not good enough to avoid the ridicule of the old couple who actually played Canned Heat again to point out it's obvious differences from Del Amitri. I know where they live and exactly when they come and go. A very impressive 14.5 for the quiz leaders and that seemed to be that. (Am I building any tension at all?).
A round called the 'Crackpot' round duly emerged, worth 15 points. Meanwhile, Luke Murphy again, and Sam Byram belatedly completed the Madjeski miracle as it will surely become known. 5 impossible anagrams of sixties bands, a perplexing melee of U2 no 1 hits and misses, and a guess the year set of 5 clues. A televised maximum (insert selfie of Hound with Robson looking uninterested).
Robson looking uninterested
Hitting the front at exactly right time, the others are now playing catch up.
A numerical last round in which Robson's mathematical awareness maximised our odds led to a unlikely 6 point victory only outdone by a Royal defeat for Reading.
Winnings were mainly in coins rather than notes, and apparently already promised to a good cause. No luck in the raffle. I prefer Bingo.
Thanks to all for indulging me and doing the all Music Quiz. Snackwise I enjoyed the pork scratchings, though respect to Kevin who clearly had a traumatic memory of a particularly hairy example of said snack holding him back.
East Croydon bound, Oval here we come.
G-Hound.
Look, don't have a go at me ok - all I did was copy & post what I was sent and follow the 'stage directions' therein...
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