Poetic Hound

This report fits neatly into 3 chronological sections:

Part 1 7.00 - 8.30

Kevster and Daren stared at each other (their words). Graham and myself  were delayed meeting up with some former L&G colleagues, one now Hong Kong based.

Part 2 8.30 - 10.30

The meat of the quiz if you will. First up:

Graham assured us he was top ten in the world on Famous Duos so this would be a breeze. Not many gaps as you see and Daren added 3- Rogers & Hammerstein.

Current affairs, which country in Africa has been declared Ebola free. We circled around W Africa, hankerchieves over faces before settling around Guinea, it was Liberia. Apparently additionally Kieron Dyer is to be on IACGMOOH. Paddy Power soon to open a book on how long he lasts until he breaks a leg.

Round 3 - Bond. The one featuring Halle Berry in a bikini vexed us, Die Another Day. What though, other than clothes/jewellery was Sean Connery never seen without as Bond? A cigarette, his Walther PPK? Cue collective head scratching.

Round 4 - Connections. The fall guy to Nayim's chip and the actor who played Dr Richard Burke in Friends sealed it for Graham. Question spotting ensued, Lord Kitchener, Merv Hughes and Jimmy Edwards would surely feature. No but the porn star with most "acting" credits did. We had Jeremy but Jeremy who? At this point Kevster found the need to relieve himself and dashed back excitedly with the solution. Ron Jeremy! What had provided the clue? We'll never know but lots of witty banter ensued.

Ten pointers - really quite easy.

Round 5 - the V round - Again our question spotting was a bit hopeless failing to predict Voldemort, Viagra and Venga Boys. We even talked ourselves out of Vince Vaughan, surely a double shot.

Round 6 - Jeopardy and question 1 was a teaser, the name of sharks' young. I'd have thought eggs but Daren was confident with pups and we cracked on. None of the others were quite as testy, the dartboard question helped by there being one in the pub. Should we go for it? We are Hound! It's what we do.

Music- one blank but even got the Ed Sheeran question. For chocolates, how many gas streetlights in London are there? Apparently, 1500, we were about 1500 out.

10.30 onwards

The Limerick

There once was a quiz team called Hound
Whose answers were unfailingly sound
No matter how pissed
There were no questions missed
And so off they walked with fifty pound

Credit Kevster for most of it, improvements by comment please, can't get the last line right.

Results, Hound 165, the rest nowhere, 107 being second.

Oh, his toupee was the Sean Connery answer.