Hound In Glove

An early start for me this Thursday. With an error that couldn't even be described as schoolboy, I arrived at the gym without any footwear. This curtailed it all somewhat and consequently I was first in.

Having not been sure of a quorum 24 hours before, it was a pleasure to see all the regulars roll in though Graham didn't make it until 9ish. Daren explained that the jam had oozed out of his doughnut, thought that had happened years ago frankly. Kevster then regaled us with a biblical style tale involving 15,000 of the sugary deep fried jammy things and the London to Brighton bike ride.

The pub was filling up and the oestrogen positively wafted over from the table oposite, someone dropped and smashed a glass, everybody cheered, naturally.

"King" Louis would be this week's quizmaster and announced the picture round would be "name the fruit". Expecting the likes of Stephen Fry, Elton John etc. I was mildly disappointed to see this lot.

Being Louis there was one on the other side, a blackberry I think.

Louis is no respector of convention and round two would be the week in television. So we had

- Who's hosting BBQ Champ? The man v food fella, Adam Richman. Is he?
- What century was Ripper St set in? Never seen it but surely Victorian?
- What is the Lotto Quiz. In it to win it was our best shot but has that finished?Something with the tedious Nick Knowles in probably
- What Saturday night favourite is back. Strictly! Squeals from the table opposite.
- Which Atomic Kitten is in CBB? After Heidi Range I had nothing. Fortunately Steve wrestled Natasha Hamilton from the memory bank. Which bank? I didn't ask.
- Who hosts Room 101- we all knew
- Who's back co hosting with Phil Schofield. Liked Daren's answer of Gordon the Gopher but Holly Willoughby was more pragmatic and at the end of the day, more right
- What TV quiz show does Ben Shepherd host. Who?
- Who's got Champions League? BT sport. Might have to get that.
- Who hosts Eggheads? Did he want Dermot or Jeremy? We put both
- Nothing on Uni Challenge or Only Connect. Isn't VC-M massive though?

Next round and another curve ball from Louis with the connections as round 3. Crazee! It was monarchs of England/UK etc. and they're not an imaginative lot, 8 Henrys and 8 Edwards will testify so it wasn't tough.

Next lakes, inland seas and rivers. Cannon fodder for us Oceans, Lakes and Rivers fiends so on to 10 pointers.

Where was the Magna Carta signed - well technically it was sealed but we all knew.
Whose real name is Royston Vasey - standard quiz fare. Is he actually funny?
What's the church in Barca - Sagrada Familia from Daren. Someone should tell Louis van Gaal this as he's just spent £20m on him.

Round 5 and music anagrams. Here's a picture to save me typing.

Jeopardy and cutting to the chase, it emerged that Graham had a tellytubby a gram for his stag party! Just let that one sink in for a while, it was Po by the way. In terms of the actual quiz, what's a place of worship with a spire on an OS map. I'm probably reading more maps than most, but I also get lost more and ultimately wasn't confident enough to go 1 on 4. Along the way we also struggled with the live wire in a plug but ultimately got there, maybe get the electrician in next time.

Music

I like this picture thing.

Would we win? Daren and myself said no and we were the ones proved right. High scoring though.