Christmas Hound

Now regular readers of the blog may see the Hound as an unstoppable quizzing juggernaut steamrollering all in its path, rarely getting a question wrong. Well, by way of a counter view some of the wrong answers this week included:

- Mistaking various types of nut for types of jellyfish
- Entering Bruce Forsyth as an answer, the correct one being the King of Thailand
- Mistaking a picture of Mother Teresa for Lenny Henry

How did all this happen? Were the questions tougher, or us more pissed? Let's rewind.

I was bit late, Southern Rail had claimed Steve as a victim but I wasn't going to miss the last quiz of the year. Already in situ, Kevster, Daren and Graham were discussing the fiendishly difficult GCHQ Christmas quiz, what do they get up to down in Cheltenham?

Additionally Leeds were at Wolves on the telly and already 1-0 down.

First up and to make it more difficult all the faces were dressed as Santa with rather full white beards and Christmassy hats. Other than the aforementioned, we nearly mistook Cheggers for Bill Clinton, and we did mistake Donny Osmond for Ben Whishaw, probably not for the last time. Equaliser for Leeds!

We did ok on the current affairs and I think even question-spotted a couple. Next up was a brain teaser round featuring logical type questions. We actually spent more time debating the phrasing of the answers than actually arriving at them, I give you:

"Why can't you take a picture of a man with a wooden leg in British Columbia"?

Now "you can't take a picture with a wooden leg" restates the question rather than the concise "you need a camera"

Wolves 1 Leeds 3!

Connections and the randomness pointed us towards birthdays and with Graham having one, we'd be shot for not getting Christmas birthdays, multiple Brit award winner Annie Lennox sealing it.

Ten pointers were bagged, Patty and Selma being Marge's sisters, Sunderland not playing in claret and blue and various cocktails being non alcoholic. Half time assessment, the ten pointers nudging us in front but the Santas not helping.

Next up, now I don't know if Siobhan had backsolved this but how appropriate that the letter themed round would be Z for the last quiz of the year. Notes get a bit shaky here, zoology, zirconium, Zucchini and Zambia may or may not have been answers.

Final score, Wolves 2 Leeds 3!

Then we came to the meat of things with the jeopardy. Box was jellyfish, clout was jellyfish, or was it cloud? We went with it anyway. Where was Eric Liddell born? It looked like a banana skin, it smelt like a banana skin. We went Scotland anyway.

The way the results came out we would have had to nail the jeopardy to win, I.e. put down all our right answers and none of the wrong ones, something we've struggled with recently. Hey ho. Not sure we answered the original question, just call it a bad day at the office, something there's been fewer of recently.

So there we have it. Another year's quizzing. Or is it? Stop press, The Oval on the 30th for red wine, Xmas jumpers and a chance to exercise the brain one more time, like I won't spend much of Xmas day playing quiz up anyway.