Hound Fever

4 hounds congregated, myself, Steve, Kevster & Robson. Plenty of concern from other teams re Daren's continuing absence, best wishes to be passed on.

Early doors Robson regaled us with a tale (tail?) from a recent run, involving a pitiful creature somewhat disorientated not knowing whether it was coming or going, and a small white terrier. Mugswell has rarely seen such goings on, and set me wondering if there is an official record marathon time for somebody carrying someone else's dog or other pet, I think that we should be told?

First round was pictures of TV comedies, all successfully named with 'Scrubs' and 'My Name is Earl' being the only ones to stretch our collective knowledge, and then not much.

Two gaps in the current affairs round, Stevie Wonder has recently divorced in LA and been told to pay £25,000 pcm for maintenance of his child from the marriage in question.' Sufragette' premiered in Leicester Square this week to a background of female protestors. Little did we know but this was more points than we would drop in the remainder of the quiz!

Round 3: Stephen King books/movies. Our Steve would have come close to a clean sweep on his own here, even being selected as an adjudicator for one of Siobhan's answers that was challenged, the rest of us managed to make the sweep clean. All the old favourites were covered, Shining, Misery, Carrie, Shawshank Redemption, Cujo, Running Man etc., except no room for the masterly suspenseful 'Duel'.

Round 4: Connection was celebrities not necessarily known for singing who had UK hit singles. We got it around half way through which is I guess par for the course. Another full house.

Ten-pointers all negotiated safely, guessing that the Big Savoy 5 (formed in 1926) became the Harlem Globetrotters was as far we had to stick our collective necks out here.

Two televised fiercely contested Euro qualifiers came to a close during our interval, with at least one Irishman present seemingly hitting the ceiling if his scream was anything to go by.

The format for the first round of the second half of the quiz is by now encouraging familiar. A little game to guess answers starting with Q before hearing the questions was won by either Quisling or Quantam depending on your viewpoint. My viewpoint favours the Norwegian traitor. Steve again on fire with Quinzy for a complication of tonsillitis, only an extinct zebra like animal escaping our ken. Still can't remember what it was called. We also learned about Kevin's Quantocks during the course of this round, not a pretty thought.

For the second week running, there were multiple Jeopardy completists. The first question about macaques calls for a picture of said animals. As I recall, and let it be a matter of record, nothing controversial was said at this stage. Moving on swiftly.....



   

Questions 2 and 3 less than encouraging, the old Gorbachev/Yeltsin dilemma for the first president of the Soviet union reared it's ugly head, and a clear Bear Trap regarding the US film adaption of Nick Hornby's 'Fever Pitch'. Clearly not going to be about soccer, but is it American Football or Baseball?

After this we picked up with 7 certs, and managed to come to a majority verdict in favour of Gorby with no dissenters. On to the music round with still the one 50/50 decision outstanding. All songs nailed except the Rihanna song title. Steve then took it upon himself to go with baseball for the 'Fever Pitch' question with no time for anyone to dissent, and the rest is history, a storming 183 points from a possible 190.

Lastly, but certainly not leastly, the Hound blog pays tribute to the Lighthouse Family. Vocalist par excellence Tunde Baeyiwu, and keyboard player Paul Tucker. 'High' an Australian number one no less, and the 'Ocean Drive' album surely defining the nineties for some (see Gemma below). 

Big up to Gemma Gould, an uber fan who persuaded the guys to reform in 2010 for a UK & Ireland tour finishing triumphantly at Morley Town Hall in Gemma's home town. Gone (hopefully this time) but never forgotten.


  
G-Hound