Revel Hound

Thursday 19th February 2015
Purley Arms, Croydon

Apologies for the almost unforgivably tardy appearance of this update...

The bare minimum of Hounds gathered last week for our first quiz in seven days, in stark contrast to the hectic goings on of the previous week.  The Green one had sent apologies, D2 was high in the skies bound for Kooba and Lord Peterkins of Fatherhood was once again fondly remembered.

Pre-match discussion was dominated, and I do mean dominated, by who'd killed Lucy Beale.  *jokes*

No, in actuality the discussion centred around Figo's bid for FIFA's Presidency and the number of sovereign nations that there are in the world and therefore could be in FIFA - we eventually established that there are 257 countries in the world, of which 195 are Sovereign States and FIFA has 209 affiliated members.  Riveting stuff.  We left the tedium behind us quickly though with a properly fascinating discussion on Revels and our respective favourites - the results of which are detailed here and, I think, make for essential reading...

Revel	Robson	G-Force	Kevster
Orange	1st	2nd
Coffee	2nd	3rd
Toffee		1st
Malteser			3rd
Peanut
Chocolate	3rd		1st
Raisin			2nd

 

Acknowledging that the evening's excitement had obviously peaked we moved onto the quiz itself in good heart.

Round 1 - a curious type of 'say what you see' picture round that actually required Band/Artists names to be given as the answers - some were obvious (an ear and Asia = Erasure), some less so (a strange pair of hands moulding a pot of some kind = T'Pau) but we came through with 11 out of 12

Round 2 - Current Affairs - Nutella, Teletubbies, Tacos, and a few other bits and bobs got us 7 out of 10

Round 3 - Eastenders - when this was announced I won the race to go to the bar - G-Force said he was off to the loo and Robson seriously contemplated cadging a fag off somebody and going outside to poke himself in the eye with it.  I returned from the bar having got in touch with my inner Danny Dyer and with Robson channelling Pat Wicks and G-Force all over Dot Cotton's little Willy we somewhat remarkably emerged with 9 out of the available 10.  Cor blimey guv'nor, a rare old result and no mistake eh, me ol' China - as none of us were to be heard amusingly muttering.

Round 4 - Connections - smashed it - think G-Force might have said it after the first one although it could've been Robson and it might've been after the second one - I was still reeling from the Eastenders tour-de-force to be honest... 

I Am The Walrus, The Big Easy, Mrs Doubtfire, Wild Thing, Great White Shark, Black Knight, El Nino, The King, Shrek - and the connection is they are all...*

Round 5 - Ten Pointers - Only current Premiership team not to have appeared in an FA Cup Final?  Only letter not to appear in the periodic table? And something about the Indian flag having a wheel of 'what' in its centre?**

Round 6 - all numbers in the 90s - Channel tunnel opened (94), Diana died (97), Atlanta Olympics (96), John Major wins General Election (92), Blur vs Oasis (95), Good Friday Agreement (98), Freddie Mercury and Robert Maxwell died (91), Britney Spears Hit Me Baby (99) and Mandela released (90).  Full house.

Round 7 - Jeopardy - we were confident with eight so submitted them and swerved two - as it turned out we got the very first question wrong so came away with nothing.

Round 8 - music - notes are a bit ragged but suggest we got them all

Bag of sweets - how many Mail Bags were stolen during the Great Train Robbery?
Now for some unknown reason we listened to Robson and he postulated that none had been stolen.  Suffice to say that was the worst answer in the entire pub.  Apparently 120 of the 128 Mail Bags on board were heisted - the closest and therefore chocolate winning answer was 60.

So we ended with 138 points and despite blowing the jeopardy and not covering ourselves in Ten Pointer glory either that was a good enough total to win.

One for the road, buses, trains and another epic warm chicken salad.

Woof.

* all golfer's nicknames
** Swansea, J (although we said, Q) and apparently it's a wheel of truth although my notes show suggestions of a wheel of righteous indignation so God knows what we actually answered for that...