Hound Week

Only one topic of pre-quiz conversation this week. Without going into too much detail, it may well be that before too long, Kevster may not be the only Hound of leisure. Some interesting decisions to be made over the next few weeks that is for sure and not necessarily by us. One thing is for sure, at the end of it all, there's going to be a Hound bash of some description. Three of our number have already preceded us through the out door though and look at them! Quite.

Onto the business of the night though and a bit of a disappointing turnout with only three teams; maybe they were all watching the snooker at home and topically enough, our first task was to put names to pictures of 10 of the fellas. Our break stood on 8 having polished off the easy balls when in walked Pete and in the manner of Judd Trump, potted a snorter down the rail by identifying Mike Hallett. Sadly though, Andy Hicks proved too difficult and there would be no opening maximum.

Onto current affairs and I felt sure the Hound of Hounslow must feature. Instead we contented ourselves with questions on the Venezuelan public sector, bottom-feeding muck rakers and the interminably dull Sandy Toksvig. There was also 70000 of something stolen from a van, the obvious answer was snails but it proved to be ballot papers. No idea what the thieves did with them.

The next round would be "B" themed so answers like Brian Boru, Betty Boothroyd and Baden Baden featured large. My favourite was Graham's comment after nailing the Bangladeshi flag that he's been putting in the work and it's paying off. Fun with flags indeed.

Connections followed and it would be a Mr men type thing. Possible to overthink these but we went with the strategy of going for the right answer and letting the connection take care of itself. Just as well really, I for one have never seen the point of Mr Men. Ten pointers and Daren came good here. The one that vexed us though was the first names of Starsky and Hutch. Ken came relatively easily but we circled round David, confusing ourselves with David Starkey. Eventually though, it was the best we could do and proved to be right.

Half time fun was mainly provided by balancing coins on phones, different. Sometime along the way Kevster commented that "compared to Daren's, Steve's was rock solid when he put it in my hand". Answers below please.

Not rock solid.

Back to the quiz, I think film quotes followed, I haven't really got too many notes here but The Deerhunter, Airplane and an ostrich appear somewhere. Jeopardy next and nine relatively comfortable answers flanked the occupation of Doc Holliday. The clue was in the Doc, we thought dentist but weren't 100% - with a small field today we went the cautious route, would it be good enough?

Music was music, we often get 17, think we got 18. Chocolates was on the number of Cliff number ones. There must be a good joke here but it's escaped me. Anyhow we tied with the Busters and shared the chocolates, as we do anyway.

Was our caution justified? I guess it was and it wasn't, dentist was right but we won in any event.

So hound funds into four figures. I feel there's another Hound bash around the corner but an interesting month of May first.

Robson and hound.