Fourth and Hound

So usual Thursday night ritual of settling into the Purley Arms with an aim of 7pm. Green Hound and Daren met at Purley station with D2 muttering something about you can tell it’s the end of financial year whilst fielding a call from a work colleague. Surely that counts as O/T?

In situ at the Arms the usual pre-amble conversations of speculation, ridiculous news stories and the general attempt to become suitably lubricated to attempt this week’s quiz, only interrupted by the seemingly regular bellowing outbursts of G-Force’s Quiz Up progress. On the subject of lubrication, Robson, having finished a meeting in London early and not wanting to head home only to come out again was leading the line already “3 in”. As a result, as the rest of the Hound supped their 2^nd, decided to announce that he had “a horse tip for the weekend” (sic). General hilarity ensued with shouts that he should make sure that he washes it thoroughly before he returns it!

Anyway, on to the quiz:

Round one: Pictures

Possibly the easiest in a long time, as it was cartoon characters and 10 were settled upon within mere seconds.

Round 2 – Current affairs

A fair show this week with answers, the usual 6 to 7 giving way to 8! The failures being Clydesdales Bank’s issue of what to celebrate the Forth Bridge (I forget which) anniversary and the Royal Mail “best” postcode.*
Round 3 – Geography

As William Pitt the younger said in Blackadder there should be tougher sentences for Geography teachers! However, 7 out of 10 with one that annoyed G-Force being the Capital City that was bordered by 2 countries, Bratislava being the answer.
Round 4 – Connections

8 out of 10 only missing Voltaire and the connection which was they were all veggies. Actually looking back over the list including Joanna Lumley, Damon Albarn, George Harrison, Ghandi and Martina Navratalova, no big surprise.

10 pointers – All nailed, the only discussion was around the UK name for a “bellhop” which we settled upon Porter.

Round 5 – Female characters which film?

8 out 10! All fairly easy, stumbling blocks were Alex Forrest and Annie Wilkes, (Fatal Attraction and Misery respectively)

Round 6 – Jeopardy

Quite possibly the easiest jeopardy round forever, 3 teams nailed this round which is new territory. Questions ranged from Fergie’s (Sarah not Stacy) books helicopter’s name, highest city above sea level to Corrie’s Manchester suburb name.

Round 7 & 8 – Music

A usual Hound show of around 80 to 85%. Apologies due to lateness and imbibing the notes seem to be fairly sketchy here. Although I have written down that there was an altercation about Michael Buble, with, seemingly, shouts of “There’s always a Buble!”. I'm not sure if there was or not!

So to the scores, in 4^th with 136 points The Busters, in 3^rd with 168 points Ladies and the Tramp, in 2^nd with  171 points King Kong Balls and winning the quiz, for the 4^th time on the bounce, with 173 points. The Hound!

And so the Hound having hit hard, faded away into the night like a collection of quiz Ninjas to their respective places of slumber or whatever fast food outlets were still available at the late hour. No doubt, whatever, it would have been "epic",
No chance of a repeat performance on Thursday the 2^nd April as the Hound has its annual Maundy Thursday Hound do which involves early doors in Borough Market’s environ’s drinking establishments.  More to follow in this respect.

 *Plastic fiver and Bebington apparently