The title is in no way meant to suggest an element of farce in this week's proceedings, god knows this could apply any week anyway. The phrase turned up during the evening as it often does and I though I would bag it as a title before anyone else does. Kevster, please google and report back how prominently it features in the returned results.
At one stage earlier in the week I had a feeling that Hound might barely be plural this week, consisting only of the two of us currently on death row at Umbrella Towers, but we were quorate in the end with myself, Robson and Kevster present.
Pre-match banter had it that Peterkin's BBQ was very enjoyable but low key, and on his way home via Shanks' Pony Robson lost his footing on a down slope crossing one of the Chipstead golf courses in the dark. Some cuts, grazes, bruises still visible. Robson as if from nowhere then produced a vintage copy of the Guinness Book of Hit Singles. The summarised chart life of the likes of the Dazz Band, Nolan Sisters, New Order, Spandau Ballet and Pluto Shervington were amongst those analysed. Siobhan ended up with custody of the book, I think as compensation for an unnecessarily long journey home from work near the Euston Tower that day, via Waitrose on the Limpsfield Road. Apparently all ended well as she was able to pick up a bag of frozen chips and something to do with making 4 berry jam.
6 out of ten, an inauspicious start on celebrity mugshots. The best get by far was Kevster identifying Vanilla Ice, looked more like Shane Warne to me. A near miss on 2Pac, but no idea on Glen Campbell, Jane Fonda and number 10 who wasn't Richard James. Current Affairs went much better, featuring as it did skinny jeans, Taylor Swift, Ferrero Rocher, the word "Twerk", Barrack Obama's potty mouth and anti-austerity protesting. The other two were gently able to persuade me that I hadn't read that the queen might temporarily vacate Buckingham Palace in order that £150,000 worth of repairs could take place, and we only missed out on the age at death of a galapagos tortoise.
8 out of 10 on History, only failing to identify the names of two mice that the Russians sent into space and that Marengo was Napoleon's horse not the Duke of Boot. Connections round turned out to be London Squares, Natalie Portman in Question 4 lighting a bulb above Robson's head. I was much slower to realise that this meant the answer to number 1 was Willy Russell not Alan Bleasdale. Still not sure where Harriet/Harman square is to be honest.
Charles Ingram (millionare cheat), Shawn Carter/Jay-Z and Lilt with the totally tropical taste duly banked 30 more points and the slow start was now all but forgotten.
Twiglets were introduced as the latest Wotsits alternative, not sure if I like them or not. First round of the second half was based on the premise that all answers commence with "D". A fact that I temporarily forgot when momentarily questioning the Dominican Republic as the Caribbean island with a capital of Santo Domingo. Only Franklin D Roosevelt's middle name eluded us, it was Delano not Delaney. In the connections round there were two clear bear traps that we avoided, where in the body is the Scaphoid bone (wrist) and what was the name of the plane that dropped the second atomic bomb on Japan (Boxcar). The rest were nailed and on to the music round, where it is satisfying to report not only full marks but all identified first time up with no need for a second listen. Gerry subsequently threatened that next weeks selection would probably not hit our sweet spot so precisely. Topol was probably the only slightly off-beat selection.
Honestly can't remember the sweeties question, a group of French infiltrators who only joined the quiz around 10.00 p.m. won it, paying total disregard to the sharing ethic that they wouldn't be aware of and prompting some Dad's Army like rhetoric from Gerry. We won and by a good margin, I have a £100 for our treasurer should I see him any time soon.
G-Hound.
Sunday 28 June 2015
Friday 26 June 2015
Useless Hound...
Purley Arms - Croydon
11th June 2015
i) this is horribly late
ii) I lost my notes from the evening
So...
Apologies for the late posting.
There were four of us (Green, G-Force, Robson & I).
We lost. Or, more accurately, didn't win. Think we were a dozen or more points off it in third or fourth place.
Whilst this is an awful and superficially pointless blog post I suggest it be used as a blank canvas upon which The Hound can paint attention grabbing, Google-sensitive, names, phrases, keywords and the like... I think it'd be funny if we could umpteen views for what is comfortably the single worst blog entry we've ever had...
I'll kick it off with;
Kardashian Hound
Sex-tape Hound
Obama confronts NRA on Hound
etc, etc, etc
11th June 2015
i) this is horribly late
ii) I lost my notes from the evening
So...
Apologies for the late posting.
There were four of us (Green, G-Force, Robson & I).
We lost. Or, more accurately, didn't win. Think we were a dozen or more points off it in third or fourth place.
Whilst this is an awful and superficially pointless blog post I suggest it be used as a blank canvas upon which The Hound can paint attention grabbing, Google-sensitive, names, phrases, keywords and the like... I think it'd be funny if we could umpteen views for what is comfortably the single worst blog entry we've ever had...
I'll kick it off with;
Kardashian Hound
Sex-tape Hound
Obama confronts NRA on Hound
etc, etc, etc
Saturday 20 June 2015
Gladiatorially Triumphant Hound
Hound blog 18.6.2015
Kevster, Graham and myself made it to the quiz this week. The US open golf was on TV front of us and Tiger Woods' travails and Miley Cyrus's butt featured large. Also if Les lives in Cardiff, Tina in Buenos Aries and Gary in Budapest, where on earth does Mark live? Thankfully there were no strangely coloured alcohol free drinks on show and some proper drinking could take place.
Still can't seem to add recent pictures so here's a topical one. The 16th at Port Royal.
Anyway if you could see the pictures, lots of solo artists, Lulu, Sayer, Minogue and P!nk a good spot by Graham. The youngsters didn't have a clue who Billy Idol was. Bless. 10/10
Next up current affairs, we muddled through missing our maestro only not knowing which actor was recently spotted on a Boris bike. We went Spacey, it proved to be Schwarzenegger. Similar in more ways than you could imagine. 9/10.
Next up another D2 fave with food and drink. From somewhere I dragged Parkin out as Nov 5th themed but a few blank faces here. 7/10
Connections would follow and with answers of Amy, Howard, Lucy and Stuart staring back at me it could only be The Big Bang Theory. What joy! Now this is one of the few series/sitcoms I watch, am on level 20 at on quizup. Need I go on? So with such knowledge, success was assured. Disappointing that Siobhan couldn't get Rajesh Koothropoli into an answer but regular faves Penny, Leonard and even Leslie Winkle made it. Need you ask? Go on then 10/10.
10 pointers - irksomely I don't have good notes here but remember Ulrika's co-presenter on Gladiators (Awooga!). Now when I said Fash, someone and I'm not sure who so I'll say Kevster queried which one? Justin Fashanu, really? On the subject, favourite Gladiator anyone? Everyone had a favourite. Location of the UK Space Centre and follow up to Paradise Lost were the other questions. 3/3.
Half time came and went and we were into "What C". Cotopaxi, Coleraine and Cape Canaveral delivered but inevitably Chesterfield let us down, though it was the couch/brand of fags rather than the hellish, miserable, windswept Derbyshire town on this occasion. 8/10
Jeopardy next and it wouldn't be easy as the first banana skin was the day Solomon Grundy got married. Kevster got it down to 50/50 and I tried to confuse things going into Craig David mode but Graham had none of it, sticking an emphatic line through it. The battle that ended the Jacobite rebellion wasn't confident either and another swerve. One that did tickle Siobhan was who were the literary duo of Charles and Gerald which only the Hound got. As they say on Countdown, a safe 6(/10).
Music and "Just haven't met you yet" started the usual Mars/Murs/Bubble debate - it was Bubble and somewhere along here way an Ed Sheeran song that passed us by completely. 16/20 at a guess.
No idea on the last question and the scores were eagerly anticipated. Surely no-one had the jeopardy and the Hound 151 took it by 6! Cue another celebratory beer or so and a good night had by all.
Missing answers Copenhagen, Leicestershire, Paradise Regained, a toss up between Jet and Lightning, Culloden and Mills and Boon. Let's see if there's room for another picture.
Kevster, Graham and myself made it to the quiz this week. The US open golf was on TV front of us and Tiger Woods' travails and Miley Cyrus's butt featured large. Also if Les lives in Cardiff, Tina in Buenos Aries and Gary in Budapest, where on earth does Mark live? Thankfully there were no strangely coloured alcohol free drinks on show and some proper drinking could take place.
Still can't seem to add recent pictures so here's a topical one. The 16th at Port Royal.
Anyway if you could see the pictures, lots of solo artists, Lulu, Sayer, Minogue and P!nk a good spot by Graham. The youngsters didn't have a clue who Billy Idol was. Bless. 10/10
Next up current affairs, we muddled through missing our maestro only not knowing which actor was recently spotted on a Boris bike. We went Spacey, it proved to be Schwarzenegger. Similar in more ways than you could imagine. 9/10.
Next up another D2 fave with food and drink. From somewhere I dragged Parkin out as Nov 5th themed but a few blank faces here. 7/10
Connections would follow and with answers of Amy, Howard, Lucy and Stuart staring back at me it could only be The Big Bang Theory. What joy! Now this is one of the few series/sitcoms I watch, am on level 20 at on quizup. Need I go on? So with such knowledge, success was assured. Disappointing that Siobhan couldn't get Rajesh Koothropoli into an answer but regular faves Penny, Leonard and even Leslie Winkle made it. Need you ask? Go on then 10/10.
10 pointers - irksomely I don't have good notes here but remember Ulrika's co-presenter on Gladiators (Awooga!). Now when I said Fash, someone and I'm not sure who so I'll say Kevster queried which one? Justin Fashanu, really? On the subject, favourite Gladiator anyone? Everyone had a favourite. Location of the UK Space Centre and follow up to Paradise Lost were the other questions. 3/3.
Half time came and went and we were into "What C". Cotopaxi, Coleraine and Cape Canaveral delivered but inevitably Chesterfield let us down, though it was the couch/brand of fags rather than the hellish, miserable, windswept Derbyshire town on this occasion. 8/10
Jeopardy next and it wouldn't be easy as the first banana skin was the day Solomon Grundy got married. Kevster got it down to 50/50 and I tried to confuse things going into Craig David mode but Graham had none of it, sticking an emphatic line through it. The battle that ended the Jacobite rebellion wasn't confident either and another swerve. One that did tickle Siobhan was who were the literary duo of Charles and Gerald which only the Hound got. As they say on Countdown, a safe 6(/10).
Music and "Just haven't met you yet" started the usual Mars/Murs/Bubble debate - it was Bubble and somewhere along here way an Ed Sheeran song that passed us by completely. 16/20 at a guess.
No idea on the last question and the scores were eagerly anticipated. Surely no-one had the jeopardy and the Hound 151 took it by 6! Cue another celebratory beer or so and a good night had by all.
Missing answers Copenhagen, Leicestershire, Paradise Regained, a toss up between Jet and Lightning, Culloden and Mills and Boon. Let's see if there's room for another picture.
Sunday 7 June 2015
Our Hound who art in Heaven
5 Hounds assembled at the allotted hour this week. Only Steve missing.
The first thing that struck me as odd was the fact that Robson was drinking lime cordial. Turns out that he and Graham had been pickling themselves from 15.30 the previous afternoon and what with the Oaks coming up on the Friday discretion was viewed as the better part of something or other.
Still reeling from Robson's bizarre beverage choice he then followed this up by claiming that he used to be a choir boy. Well, I've never heard the like and probably never will.
After that, the quiz seemed fairly tame. For some reason I have 2 sets of photos bearing the title 'Italian picture quiz' but I'm sure that wasn't it. The current affairs lived up to their monicker and then there was a round on pubs, I kid you not. These were actually fictional pubs such as the Woolpack and Jamaica Inn. But on a night for revelations Kevster was astounded to hear of a detective series by the name of Rebus. Unsurprisingly we didn't get his local which was the Flying Scotsman.
I think the connection this week was birthdays but we didn't put that preferring to believe that all of them, including Angelina Jolie and Russell Brand, had at some stage won the Derby.
It's probably about half time now so here come the 10 pointers. If you're playing along at home see if you can spot the deliberate mistake:
1) the Give Way sign is the only traffic sign made with an inverted triangle
2) Wiki is a Japanese word
3) staying alive was the sequel to Saturday night fever
And for those of you watching in black and white, question 2 is the one before question 3
Second half and all the teams changed ends and kicked the other way, which is a magnificent thing to behold.
Connections was 10 countries with winning European cup teams. We chose to forego our usual 7 out of 10 and managed to get the whole blimmin' lot.
Jeopardy was the round that did for us, as so often. We went for all ten but slipped on 2. The number of years it takes for Bill Haley and the Comets to come round is 75 and I think there was another number question we got wrong. 5 is a number but apparently it wasn't the one they were looking for this week.
Finishing with the music round Robson had a Fast Car, Pete was So Lonely, Kevster wanted to Love You a Little bit More but most strange of all was Graham claiming to be Young, gifted and black. I would question at least 2 of those statements.
That's all folks
The first thing that struck me as odd was the fact that Robson was drinking lime cordial. Turns out that he and Graham had been pickling themselves from 15.30 the previous afternoon and what with the Oaks coming up on the Friday discretion was viewed as the better part of something or other.
Still reeling from Robson's bizarre beverage choice he then followed this up by claiming that he used to be a choir boy. Well, I've never heard the like and probably never will.
After that, the quiz seemed fairly tame. For some reason I have 2 sets of photos bearing the title 'Italian picture quiz' but I'm sure that wasn't it. The current affairs lived up to their monicker and then there was a round on pubs, I kid you not. These were actually fictional pubs such as the Woolpack and Jamaica Inn. But on a night for revelations Kevster was astounded to hear of a detective series by the name of Rebus. Unsurprisingly we didn't get his local which was the Flying Scotsman.
I think the connection this week was birthdays but we didn't put that preferring to believe that all of them, including Angelina Jolie and Russell Brand, had at some stage won the Derby.
It's probably about half time now so here come the 10 pointers. If you're playing along at home see if you can spot the deliberate mistake:
1) the Give Way sign is the only traffic sign made with an inverted triangle
2) Wiki is a Japanese word
3) staying alive was the sequel to Saturday night fever
And for those of you watching in black and white, question 2 is the one before question 3
Second half and all the teams changed ends and kicked the other way, which is a magnificent thing to behold.
Connections was 10 countries with winning European cup teams. We chose to forego our usual 7 out of 10 and managed to get the whole blimmin' lot.
Jeopardy was the round that did for us, as so often. We went for all ten but slipped on 2. The number of years it takes for Bill Haley and the Comets to come round is 75 and I think there was another number question we got wrong. 5 is a number but apparently it wasn't the one they were looking for this week.
Finishing with the music round Robson had a Fast Car, Pete was So Lonely, Kevster wanted to Love You a Little bit More but most strange of all was Graham claiming to be Young, gifted and black. I would question at least 2 of those statements.
That's all folks
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