Hound Did That Happen...

Thursday 26th February 2015

Purley Arms, Croydon

Beaten unexpectedly by a point by a new team of menopausal (their words not mine) ladies called '5 Shades of Grey'.

 

Not much to report from the pre match banter, the future if it has one of Umbrella Towers was discussed, and lots of Quiz upping. British teams falling like flies in European competition.  

 

The Picture Round was made up of 10 fairly bad pictorial puns intended to suggest various drinks. Or make that 9 fairly bad pictorial puns and one truly atrocious one. A close up of someone smiling with unfeasibly good white teeth was meant to depict 'a pair of teeth' = 'aperitif'. Despite there indisputably being much more than a pair of teeth (pair was two last time I checked), somebody else got it so our alternative suggestion of R Whites never got us anywhere.  

 

Decent Current Affairs round, only failing to recognise a West End play about the early life of Carole King, and the name of some political Doris, a green party leader I think.   

 

Followed by a round of Firsts where we tailed off a bit missing 3 of the last 4.    

 

Then, the connections round which seems to be where we lost the quiz. Siobhan clearly put a lot of work into designing this round herself, but it is fair to say that the Hound just didn't get it even with a few prompters from Siobhan herself. The answers were as follows (with our wrong ones in brackets)...  

 

Dresser  

Grammar (Secondary)

Uneven (Rough)

Banana

Revive

Voodoo

Acidic (Acid)

Potato

Greyer (White)

And the connection. If you take the initial letter away from each word and put it to the end of the word and then read it backwards it gives the same word. Yes really. Fair play to 5 Shades of Grey who got all 9 but not the connection. Fair play to Siobhan for completely fooling us.  

All 3 ten pointers were picked up - Who directed Platoon & JFK/Capital of Guernsey/Italian name for Pasta quills.  

No reason to believe at half-way that we were playing catch-up or would need to be brave in the Jeopardy round.  

'Top 10' was replaced by ten link words e.g. (rubber) band (aid), (times) table (cloth) etc. We got 9 (see also below).  

We got all of the answers correct in the Jeopardy round, but perhaps bearing in mind the recent Colonel Sanders debacle, and because we didn't feel we had to get them all, we left hypno-phobia being a fear of sleep out. At least one team blew out on Tanzania being the location for Mt. Kilimanjaro (rather surprisingly I thought putting Mozambique).   

Not quite last week's full twenty marks in the Music Round but only two points short.  

The Maltesers came our way for being the first to identify that Ian Fleming wrote 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'.  

It's always tempting when losing by only one point to think of 'what might have been' and 'if only'. This is of course ultimately fruitless and futile and doesn't even make you feel better. However, if I had of fallen in that trap, I would more than likely have mentioned some or all of the following in addition to the Jeopardy round and 'a pair of fu**ing teeth' as Kevster wrote in huge letters on the copy that I have in font of me now;   

- How come (Sunday) Express (Delivery) is ok but (Sunday) Mail (Delivery) isn't?

- The Van Morrison/Michael Buble mix-up mystery

- Why do certain Lionel Richie songs sound so completely like other Lionel Richie songs?    

That's it. Cheltenham gets ever nearer, and Maundy Thursday can't be far off. Happy hounding.

G-Force