Today’s title comes from some on-line quiz game that Graham
was playing. Graham (level 10) had just beaten someone on Level 273 and was
rewarded with the message “This truly is a day for the underdogs”. I saw this
as a good omen.
Pre match ‘bantz’ was the usual smattering of gibberish,
righteous indignation, slanderous innuendo and non-sequiturs. My personal favourite
was Kevin having trouble “swiping his finger over Robson’s crack”
The only point properly covered was the venue of this year’s
Maundy Thursday Hound jaunt. I won’t give away too many details here so as not
to spoil the Maundy Thursday blog which, Dear Reader, should be a right rip-snorter.
On with the quiz. Quite a lively crowd were in; There were some
Pointless people, some Northern monkeys some Mum’s on a night out, some ladies
and quite a few tramps and a couple of
other teams whose name I didn’t catch and of course 5, non poisoned Hounds.
Round 1 was pictures of Logo’s. Pretty easy Kodak, Bic etc
but we did get one wrong which we said was Switch but apparently was the wrong
colour.
Round 2 was current affairs and we got ourselves in a right
pickle over London’s most popular visitor attraction with Madame Tussaud ending
up in a 3 way with Stone Henge and the Tower of London. We needn’t have
fretted, it was the British
Museum.
Kevster fretted over not remembering that Alan Partridge was
the subject of an on-line petition to replace Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear. (Back
of the net)
Round 3 was ‘Irish authors’ in recognition of St Patrick’s
day. Hound caused disquiet amongst the
other teams by admitting to recognising Lemuel as being the main protagonist in
Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. We also pulled Maeve Binchy out of the hat, which
is no mean feat given she’s over 6 foot tall, apparently.
Connections – Pilots, got within 3 questions
10 Pointers: 2 out of 3 but we couldn’t quite dredge out the
name for the bit at the end of a shoelace (clue: It’s not a shoe)
The Second half was upon us like a whirlwind. The Top 10
this week was replaced by Film characters. I think we struggled with Jack Torrance
(Here’s Johnny) but otherwise did what hounds do (without having our noses
rubbed in it).
The Jeopardy round was played tactically; we swerved the
drink launched as ‘Brad’s Drink’ which turned out to be wise as it was Pepsi
but inexplicably also swerved ‘What colour is the spirit Galliano?’ Now, anyone
who knows me will also know how partial I am to a Freddy Fudpucker in the
summer and I have a bottle of said liqueur in the drinks cabinet at home for
the express purpose. Graham also knew it was yellow and that gallo is something
like the Italian for yellow (Giallo). Crazy
stuff. Not to worry we got the remaining 8 right thanks to Steve dredging up John McCain (Don't worry we quickly buried him again)
Music round kicked off with ‘Don’t rock the boat’ and I
concentrated so much on not rocking it (don’t tip the boat over) that I don’t remember
much after this point.
Final scores ranged from 92 to 143 with The Hound coming out
victorious, if somewhat bleary eyed and over refreshed.
An "aglet" (sometimes spelt "aiglet") is
the name given to the plastic or metal tip on the end of a shoelace. Despite
their simplicity, aglets perform several functions: They stop the ends of the
shoelaces from unravelling; They make it easier to hold the ends of the
shoelaces when lacing; They cause Hounds to drop 10 points at quizzes
Onwards and upwards
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