You Houndsome Devils

Bit late getting there today, detained on the golf course. Ashleigh was a late replacement for Steve who joined Daren on the injured list. The chocolates she brought along were more than welcome.

Kevster chucked in the Wimbledon 8 as a possible future Hound event, why the hell not? Apparently Ollie Reed managed two laps in one hour forty, we'd struggle to do that as a relay but has to be on the list.

Onto pictures and a bunch of newsreaders to kick us off. Knowing your Kirstys from your Kates would be important here and we kind of failed.

Current affairs and one of the more memorable questions was centred around Jermain Defoe's advert for a PA to water his flowers and grow his global brand. There's a few of us possibly entering the job market soon but somehow that one doesn't quite appeal. Otherwise we did ok, actually we didn't but who'd have known ketchup was rebranded in Israel as tomato seasoning?

Looking at the next round, I guess but don't recall that the theme was 20th century history. Been bashing the history topics in quizup so this was fun. Biafra was a new one for me though and hadn't realised the guillotine was recently abolished ( by Mitterrand ). Here's the pig.

Connections and didn't this prove to be a tricksy round. Frankly reading the answers back myself Barrel, Train, Camel, Dole, Yoke, Army, Wedge, Kindle and Murder it's still not leaping off the page. Collective nouns though was the solution.

Haven't made a note of ten pointers but recall that it was JRR we failed to name. Sure we've had this before, probably will again and still fail. John Ronald Reuel for posterity.

Next round was a list of Ls, think we got them all. Thought, we could revise everything beginning with M for next week? Then again, maybe we won't bother.

Connections and the first question "Name Moe's cat in the Simpsons" kind of put a dampener on things. We didn't know what Grevys or Burchell's was, sounded antelope but proved to be zebra. After Mr Snookhams though, we settled for what we could get and came through unscathed.

Think we got all the music, so it was onto the chocolates question. Now Graham had pre-prepared an answer of 62 so when the question of how many times was Tower Bridge raised in a year, in the absence of anything else, we went with it. Around 1000 apparently, have never seen it.

The results, not an epic Hound performance but one where we'd had to roll up our quizzing sleeves. Cutting to the chase Dave Ja Vu 126, Hound 126 and to add spice, DJV were the team formally known as the Hamsters. So tie-breaker and how many Tolpuddle martyrs were there? We didn't know and went 15, DJV 8, the answer 6. And you know what? They weren't even martyrs. Pathetic.

Well with the senior members of the DJV team about to decamp to Avonwick in Devon, it was all too much. Too young. One more quiz as an L&G employee.