Dreddy Hound

Purley Arms, Croydon
Thursday 2nd July 2015

After two successive wins with a reduced strength team a more or less fully complemented Hound gathered once again seeking the hat-trick.  Against a backdrop of some sensational tennis from the dread-locked Dustin Brown we made small talk and plotted to do to our opposition what dear old dreddy Dustin was doing to Rafael Nadal, i.e. administer a humiliating defeat.

 

@dreddytennis pictured earlier

Round 1 - Pictures - 'the eyes have it' - the ocular visages of ten famous folk ranging from Emma Bunton to Madonna via, amongst others, Bobby Robson, Tom Selleck, Phil Collins, Dolly Parton and, somewhat bizarrely, Fred West.  8/10

Round 2 - Current Affairs - included a question about the winner of the dreddy Dustin and raffish Rafa match and you can't get much more current than that...  It's traditional here to get 7/10 and the Hound is nothing if not a strict observer of tradition.  7/10

Round 3 - themed on America - fairly safe ground for the Hound but nonetheless one major blooper on America's longest river - we said the Mississippi, it isn't...*   9/10

Round 4 - connections - 10/10 here with the connection being identified after the first answer...  Gregory Peck, Lady Godiva, Barney Rubble, Vera Lynn, Hank Marvin, Ayrton Senna, Eartha Kitt, Nelson Mandela and Bob Hope - the connection is...? **

Round 5 - 3 x 10 pointers - 3/3 here - usually a good staging point in a romp to victory...

Half time - glasses recharged and cautious optimism abounding

Round 6 - the letter 'E' - 8/10 here - can't remember precisely the question but we put HME Endeavour when we should've put HMS Enterprise and we failed to guess what 'E' was measured on the Mercali Scale...***

Round 7 - Jeopardy - can't remember whether we went for this or not - I think we did but we absolutely shouldn't have done 'cos we weren't even close...  What did British roads first acquire in 1914?  How many Community Chests on a Monopoly board?  And, the name of which 1977 formed British pop group refers to a financial status?  ****

Round 8 - music - the nine answers we wrote down were correct - we didn't have a clue about one of them and, helpfully, I haven't written down what it was...  9/10

In all eight teams took part and scores ranged from 94 to 141 with the Hound bombing out to fourth place on 132 points.

Oh, and the box of chocolates question (a box of Heroes this week!) - which part of an ambulance is named after a mythical sea creature? *****

One for the road, buses, trains, epic chicken kebabs, etc...




* Missouri
** examples of rhyming slang
*** Earthquakes
**** White lines, 2 and Dire Straits (we put UB40!)
***** Siren