Hound, comprising Graham and myself second with 148.
Merry Christmas Everyone.
Sunday, 24 December 2017
Merry Christmas Mr Hound
Through a combination of lack of memory, notes and time, I'll sum up last week's quiz in largely pictoral form. Not necessarily in order:
Hound, comprising Graham and myself second with 148.
Merry Christmas Everyone.
Hound, comprising Graham and myself second with 148.
Merry Christmas Everyone.
Friday, 15 December 2017
VM6225836 4qdxkhDRykrn Hound
Right, challenge anyone to Google that and come up with anything more plausible. A bit circular I know, if you can't access the net, how do you get the password but there we have it. 4 of us this week and Daren managed to nutmeg Steve, Graham and myself early doors.
Grenada's finest.
Pictures were male pop stars, the only one troubling us was this johnny.
Looks the type who was bullied mercilessly at school, James Bay apparently.
We did pretty badly on the current affairs but to guess Photo Me were diversifying into Supermarket washing machines would have taken ome thinking, as it did for them I guess.
Back on firmer ground with a third round of "Fire", no problems here with questions a ten year old could answer, or something.
The connections was altogether more headscratching, Elvis, Albert Einstein, Ben Franklin, significant characters, maybe people of the year, banknotes? Then David Jason, Stuart Pearce and some bloke who plays Davos Seaworth made it all together more confusing. All electricians by trade apparently? Reading Einstein's bio it was something he did for about 5 minutes, Psycho was the only one we actually knew about.
Liam Cunningham. Yes, really!
Ten pointers were strangely easy and usual story, half time with all to play for.
Fortified by an egg, ham and cheese sandwich each, we attacked the second half and the link-ups didn't really cause any problems, once we'd decided between Residue, remainder, retinue, remnant. Were there others? No matter, onto jeopardy and again, weirdly straight-forward to kick off with. In fact the only really tasking one was the echidna. Shall we have a look at the little fella?
Cute in a spiny kind of way.
Onto music and it was that memorable group, Big Mountain who covered "Baby I Love Your Way" and that proved to be our only omission of the second half. Jeopardy aced and the Hound on its way home caressing a crisp £50 note in its pocket. With the problem of dodgy trains though.
Grenada's finest.
Pictures were male pop stars, the only one troubling us was this johnny.
Looks the type who was bullied mercilessly at school, James Bay apparently.
We did pretty badly on the current affairs but to guess Photo Me were diversifying into Supermarket washing machines would have taken ome thinking, as it did for them I guess.
Back on firmer ground with a third round of "Fire", no problems here with questions a ten year old could answer, or something.
The connections was altogether more headscratching, Elvis, Albert Einstein, Ben Franklin, significant characters, maybe people of the year, banknotes? Then David Jason, Stuart Pearce and some bloke who plays Davos Seaworth made it all together more confusing. All electricians by trade apparently? Reading Einstein's bio it was something he did for about 5 minutes, Psycho was the only one we actually knew about.
Liam Cunningham. Yes, really!
Ten pointers were strangely easy and usual story, half time with all to play for.
Fortified by an egg, ham and cheese sandwich each, we attacked the second half and the link-ups didn't really cause any problems, once we'd decided between Residue, remainder, retinue, remnant. Were there others? No matter, onto jeopardy and again, weirdly straight-forward to kick off with. In fact the only really tasking one was the echidna. Shall we have a look at the little fella?
Cute in a spiny kind of way.
Onto music and it was that memorable group, Big Mountain who covered "Baby I Love Your Way" and that proved to be our only omission of the second half. Jeopardy aced and the Hound on its way home caressing a crisp £50 note in its pocket. With the problem of dodgy trains though.
Friday, 8 December 2017
Tucuman QUE SEA Rock - Hound
One of the search engines misdirected me to the above when typing TQSR. I thought at first that it was a rock band, but on further investigation it is actually a rock festival. Tucuman is a town and province in NW Argentina, so don’t be surprised if blog hit numbers from that part of the world now increase.
A little late arriving for myself and Robson, and a relatively sober evening gave an unfamiliar feel not helped by a team with the audacity to colonise our table. Also not helped by the sheer number of quizzers arriving just prior to kick-off. 8 teams mostly 2-2.5 times ours in terms of personnel. Including a mash-up of Lady & Tramp and Busters tempted away from the bar.
10 pictures of objects taken from an unfamiliar angle or just close up to start. We got 8ish, nothing more to say. Current Affairs included one of the currentest yet. No Wi-Fi in the pub meant no way of finding out that Coventry had been nominated as City of Culture 2018, announced only minutes earlier. We got the Vladimir Putin merchandise item that sold out quickly. Not sure what month the following came from, don’t really want to find out.
Only 6 correct though, not enough on a night of high standards.
Trust D2 to miss a Simply Red round, but thankfully no mention of his lot or sh**e pop bands. Red Star Belgrade, Red October, Red Adair, Red Sonja etcetera. We didn’t get the cheddar marbled with Bordeaux wine or the name of the firm running the passenger ferry service to the Isle of Wight.
Red Windsor, though I thought my effort of Cheddar Rouge sounds better. Red Funnel is the ferry operator.
Connection was eponymous fragrances (again I think). Andy Warhol, One Direction, Kylie, David Beckham and Zippo lighters apparently. We went for switching on the Times Square xmas lights. Got the ten pointers, which concerned the Bangladeshi flag, a naked and pregnant actress and some Rugby player’s wife. Standard stuff.
Yet again the chain letters round started simply before meandering violently towards the end. I suspect Siobhan starts out with plenty of time but gets a bit fed up later on. Completing the circle relied on knowing which of Charlie Parker’s nicknames she wanted. And earlier on knowing that Wolverine is only a codename for Logan.
Jeopardy round was if anything too easy. It seems Gerry has been reprimanded by S for laying some cunning bear traps recently. We got them all but only played 8. Three teams played and got them all, including winners King Kong Balls with their new MVP who seems to make them very competitive whenever present. I had never heard of the following chap...
A cutthroat trout, would you believe!
Music was stretching in places but we got all bar a Jam title.
No quiz at PA on Thurs 28 December. Plan is for an inbetweener on the same date at the Racehorse in Carshalton. With the added bonus, to Robson’s delight, of an earlier snifter at the Hope over the road for those so inclined.
G-Force.
Friday, 1 December 2017
Hound, Where's Your Troosers?
St Andrews Day and Siobhan treated us to a Scottish themed quiz this week. Graham, Steve and myself formed the team this week and we were immediately, well not quite as we got there around 7, faced with a picture sheet of all things Scottish, with Scottish inventions to the fore.
Now the Scots have always punched above their weight in this field and we weren't restricted to the standard ones here. So marmalade, which we'd all assumed was invented by Peruvian bears, actually turns out by have been invented by an enterprising Scottish merchant, who had a storm damaged ship from Seville laden with fruit and presumably lots of sugar at his disposal. A Scotsman also invented the hypodermic syringe, though that one was probably just personal need.
Some Scottish people.
Next up, current affairs with what's now a more typical around 6 for this round. We knew where Harry and Meghan plan to wed and we also know who didn't know there had been a female PM in Britain (Really!). Escaping us though were the name of that volcano in Bali and the multi media personality done twice for speeding in the same area, who I've also forgotten again already.
The third round was unambiguous enough "Scotland", and we did pretty well here failing only to remember the castle where Madge and Guy Ritchie got married, despite recanting most of Macbeth in the process.
Connections and Graham will claim he got this in one but I don't believe him. A nursery rhyme apparently.
There was an old woman who swallowed a cow,
I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old woman who swallowed a horse,
She's dead of course!
Really not sure about that food chain, when has a goat ever caught a dog? Answers were actually in the correct order, Marty McFly, Spider-Man etc.
Ten pointers was where it started to unravel. Seventies documentary The World At War was narrated by whom? Our wrong answer was Richard Burton which I'll take the rap for suggesting but two other teams put this as well which led me to think he really should have done it. Maybe.. oh, that's not going to work. Actually it was Larry.
Sir Laurence.
Half time and we seemed to eat most of the sandwiches in the pub, I'd been to the gym and hadn't eaten, not sure of the others excuses, but on we go with Link Ups. Again, all fairly smooth until some Fred Astaire film tripped us up and left a bit of a gap there. So jeopardy would need to be good.
Well, we were confident that Madras became Chennai and the Curtis Cup was all about women's golf. We weren't confident on who played M in Goldeneye, what Chorophobes are scared of and what tea producing city is the jewel of north India. We swerved two, we should have swerved three, or maybe two different ones. To be fair, it felt like we needed to gamble. On the subject of phobias, gelotophobia anyone?
Music was pretty decent, just one escaped us but with the bust jeopardy, some way of and frankly a clean seven wouldn't have been any use. Onto next week.
Now the Scots have always punched above their weight in this field and we weren't restricted to the standard ones here. So marmalade, which we'd all assumed was invented by Peruvian bears, actually turns out by have been invented by an enterprising Scottish merchant, who had a storm damaged ship from Seville laden with fruit and presumably lots of sugar at his disposal. A Scotsman also invented the hypodermic syringe, though that one was probably just personal need.
Some Scottish people.
Next up, current affairs with what's now a more typical around 6 for this round. We knew where Harry and Meghan plan to wed and we also know who didn't know there had been a female PM in Britain (Really!). Escaping us though were the name of that volcano in Bali and the multi media personality done twice for speeding in the same area, who I've also forgotten again already.
The third round was unambiguous enough "Scotland", and we did pretty well here failing only to remember the castle where Madge and Guy Ritchie got married, despite recanting most of Macbeth in the process.
Connections and Graham will claim he got this in one but I don't believe him. A nursery rhyme apparently.
There was an old woman who swallowed a cow,
I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old woman who swallowed a horse,
She's dead of course!
Really not sure about that food chain, when has a goat ever caught a dog? Answers were actually in the correct order, Marty McFly, Spider-Man etc.
Ten pointers was where it started to unravel. Seventies documentary The World At War was narrated by whom? Our wrong answer was Richard Burton which I'll take the rap for suggesting but two other teams put this as well which led me to think he really should have done it. Maybe.. oh, that's not going to work. Actually it was Larry.
Sir Laurence.
Half time and we seemed to eat most of the sandwiches in the pub, I'd been to the gym and hadn't eaten, not sure of the others excuses, but on we go with Link Ups. Again, all fairly smooth until some Fred Astaire film tripped us up and left a bit of a gap there. So jeopardy would need to be good.
Well, we were confident that Madras became Chennai and the Curtis Cup was all about women's golf. We weren't confident on who played M in Goldeneye, what Chorophobes are scared of and what tea producing city is the jewel of north India. We swerved two, we should have swerved three, or maybe two different ones. To be fair, it felt like we needed to gamble. On the subject of phobias, gelotophobia anyone?
Music was pretty decent, just one escaped us but with the bust jeopardy, some way of and frankly a clean seven wouldn't have been any use. Onto next week.
Sunday, 26 November 2017
Herculeberry Hound...
2nd nights quizzing in a row. After Quiz Bingo at the Wattendon Arms, where we reduced the average age of the clientele, back to the relative normality of the PA. Robson and I present and largely correct. As the temperature falls here, a warm welcome to any Caribbean readers we may have this week, I can almost taste the nutmeg. Any answers not revealed in the blog can be found at the end.
Picture round was musical trios...
Picture round was musical trios...
... We got them all, Anoraks missed no 3. 5 and 10 the only ones that made us think.
Par score of 7 for Current Affairs. I’d heard the lost submarine story but never noted it’s nationality. What subgroup of shoppers are put off by self-service checkouts according to the Housing Association? And, who will perform their first Changing of the Guard imminently? Daren scored a point in his absence as we applied his, if in doubt on supermarket questions default to Asda, successfully to a question about proof of ID for tasting mince pies. A good bit of detective work to get Joey Barton as footy player turning down £0.5m for IACGMOOH. Said he would only eat witchety grubs for £1.0m.
No connections round this week. Occupations of fictional characters and British comedy for rds 3 and 4 respectively. What is the occupation of the following;
John H Watson
Ebenezer Scrooge
Kermit the Frog
Barbara Gordon
Hot Lips Houlihan
Samwise Gangee
Mary Poppins
Alfred Pennyworth
Dr Daniel Jackson
Derek Wilton
Who knew this fellow had a job?
We got 7 with reasonably generous marking. British comedy proved easier. We only missed an Allo Allo reference relating to the catchphrase ‘You stupid woman’. I got Shameless as the comedy drama set on The Chatsworth estate, and Robson pulled out Carry on Screaming as The one where Harry H Corbett plays the lead.
Ten pointers. A slightly fraught 3 minutes, but fortunately R was on fire for 2 of them. Pulling out Elton John’s middle names from thin air followed by Julienne for the method of cutting foods into thin strips. Nobody else got all 3, don’t think any others got this fellas middle name....
Chain letters nearly went awry due to my insistence that Gulles means yellow in heraldry. It doesn’t and the other answers fitted much better with red. Jeopardy questions got harder as the round progressed. First 6 never taxed us much, then we got Canada as only hosts not to win a summer Olympics gold medal, and Gold as the metal known as Tears of the Sun by the Incas. Two great swerves for 9 and 10, What part of the body contains the pisiform and hamate bones? And Who was the first woman inducted into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame in 1987?
19 from 20 for the music, and a good 8 point win over King Kong Balls, who seem to be now consistently raising their game. 3 other also rans, including Anoraks bemoaning too many popular culture questions. Unusual that for a pub quiz!
Missing answers as follows..
Picture 3 - Depeche Mode.
Picture 5 - Nirvana
Picture 10 - Andrews Sisters.
Submarine - Argentinian
Shoppers - Elderly
C of Guard - Royal Marines I think.
Occupations;
Doctor
Moneylender
Theatre Manager
Librarian/Superhero
Soldier/Nurse
Gardener/Farmer
Nanny
Butler
Archaeologist
Salesman/shopkeeper
Elton - Hercules
Pisiform/Hamate - Wrist
First Woman.. - Aretha Franklin
Always good to win as a duo, and relatively sober as well.
G-Force.
Friday, 17 November 2017
Wake Hound
Well and truly bear-trapped this week. Fair play to Gerry, we didn't see that one coming at all. This picture may help, of which more later.
The pub seemed largely taken over for a wake for someone I'd suggest was not that old and Irish. In case one of the team falls under a bus this week, here is where we'd rather not have our wakes:
Daren - Purley Arms
Graham - Kenley Hotel
Myself - Midday Sun
Peterkins - Foxley Hatch
Yes, Peterkins made a rare guest appearance, and very useful he proved to be as well. We generally got into the spirit of things and I think drank a bit more than usual. No excuses though.
Graham had fun with the first round which was Commonwealth flags and a rare improvement on our usual 8 or so. Onto current affairs and while we knew Greggs replaced Jesus (not the bloke who plays for Man City) with a sausage roll we didn't know that it was a horse arrested in Brazil for kicking a car. Police suspect foal play.
The suspect.
Was it Gordon Ramsay who had a go at being served up with bits of foam on a plate? Sounds like him but don't recall the answers and inevitably it was a packet of nuts that had to be withdrawn from sale because there was no "may contain nuts" warning. Also it was Bobby Mugabe placed under house arrest. Or should that be horse arrest?
The third round was unseen which rather plays havoc with my plan to include a picture with each round. But the usual suspects were there, 'Er Indoors from Minder, Maris Crane and Howard's mum from TBBT.
The connections round was proving a headscratcher. What connects Milan, Tiger Bay and Bordeaux? The poetry that is Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick. First two lines:
In the deserts of Sudan and the gardens of Japan
From Milan to Yucatan, ev'ry woman, ev'ry man
Great stuff and well played to Peterkins for picking it out.
Of the ten pointers, the question of who was Time Magazine's "Most Important Person of the Century" was the only one that really vexed us but we went correctly with Einstein for a decent first half.
Link-ups and I've just got some scruffy notes here which probably means it went well but Overlook led to Komodo Dragon which is surely worth a picture.
Grr.
Jeopardy. Well we kind of did a lot of the hard work. It was Des Lynam who followed Richard Whitely in Countdown and GCHQ is in Cheltenham and while Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde sound like 4 characters from Made in Chelsea, they are indeed the ghosts in Pac Man. But, so blind-sided were we that while Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile in 1954, rather bafflingly one of his pacemakers on the day, Chris Chataway won the SPOTY, for doing what looks like not very much. At least Nigel Mansell had a decent tache.
So that was us out of it, one of those occasions we hold up our collective hands and acknowledge we were bested. Think we won the chocolates again, down to me knowing when the structure of DNA was discovered. At least a university education is worth something.
D2 is on his hols next Thursday so we're going to try the quiz at the Wattenden Arms next Wednesday, up in darkest Kenley. Discuss via here or the Whats App group for details. Just called them and confirmed, quiz from 8.30pm.
Daren - Purley Arms
Graham - Kenley Hotel
Myself - Midday Sun
Peterkins - Foxley Hatch
Yes, Peterkins made a rare guest appearance, and very useful he proved to be as well. We generally got into the spirit of things and I think drank a bit more than usual. No excuses though.
Graham had fun with the first round which was Commonwealth flags and a rare improvement on our usual 8 or so. Onto current affairs and while we knew Greggs replaced Jesus (not the bloke who plays for Man City) with a sausage roll we didn't know that it was a horse arrested in Brazil for kicking a car. Police suspect foal play.
The suspect.
Was it Gordon Ramsay who had a go at being served up with bits of foam on a plate? Sounds like him but don't recall the answers and inevitably it was a packet of nuts that had to be withdrawn from sale because there was no "may contain nuts" warning. Also it was Bobby Mugabe placed under house arrest. Or should that be horse arrest?
The third round was unseen which rather plays havoc with my plan to include a picture with each round. But the usual suspects were there, 'Er Indoors from Minder, Maris Crane and Howard's mum from TBBT.
The connections round was proving a headscratcher. What connects Milan, Tiger Bay and Bordeaux? The poetry that is Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick. First two lines:
In the deserts of Sudan and the gardens of Japan
From Milan to Yucatan, ev'ry woman, ev'ry man
Great stuff and well played to Peterkins for picking it out.
Of the ten pointers, the question of who was Time Magazine's "Most Important Person of the Century" was the only one that really vexed us but we went correctly with Einstein for a decent first half.
Link-ups and I've just got some scruffy notes here which probably means it went well but Overlook led to Komodo Dragon which is surely worth a picture.
Grr.
Jeopardy. Well we kind of did a lot of the hard work. It was Des Lynam who followed Richard Whitely in Countdown and GCHQ is in Cheltenham and while Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde sound like 4 characters from Made in Chelsea, they are indeed the ghosts in Pac Man. But, so blind-sided were we that while Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile in 1954, rather bafflingly one of his pacemakers on the day, Chris Chataway won the SPOTY, for doing what looks like not very much. At least Nigel Mansell had a decent tache.
So that was us out of it, one of those occasions we hold up our collective hands and acknowledge we were bested. Think we won the chocolates again, down to me knowing when the structure of DNA was discovered. At least a university education is worth something.
D2 is on his hols next Thursday so we're going to try the quiz at the Wattenden Arms next Wednesday, up in darkest Kenley. Discuss via here or the Whats App group for details. Just called them and confirmed, quiz from 8.30pm.
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
And the winning Hound is....
A lot to get through, so let’s get cracking. Pictures of posters for musical plays. I haven’t got them but the following were 2 of the toughest...
This one was Glengarry Glen Ross. I insisted it was on the tip of my tongue all the time. It wasn’t! Crocodile was actually a vulture as well.
We ummed and ahhed between Ladykillers and Mousetrap, both Daren’s suggestions. In our defence the words were removed.
The one that looked gangsterish was a The Great Gatsby.
No Siobhan this week, possibly a good thing after her damning indictment of our previous week’s current affairs effort. Julie setting and asking the questions this week. Happy to tackle subjects S usually avoids, hence dead Italian chef and a delicately phrased Kevin Spacey question. We were firmly back in 7 out of 10 territory.
Food & drink for Rd 3. The fruit tra
ditionally found in a Sussex pond pudding is a lemon, Mary Berry dies a version with apples which was our answer but not traditional. Also Chilli Con Carne is Texan not Mexican. At least one of our team had sensed a bear trap there. Not me, but I got matar as being Indian for peas.
Ok. Now pay attention. Rd 4 was the chain letters round NOT connections. A round usually reserved to kick off the second half. We missed a couple, wrong cathedral for biggest bell, St Paul’s not St David’s and Yucca is somehow related to asparagus.
We missed the first ten pointer. Which animal is mentioned most often in the Bible. Others had heard
the question before, we hadn’t. Our choice of ass apparently only comes in fourth. Sheep was the
answer.
This one was Glengarry Glen Ross. I insisted it was on the tip of my tongue all the time. It wasn’t! Crocodile was actually a vulture as well.
We ummed and ahhed between Ladykillers and Mousetrap, both Daren’s suggestions. In our defence the words were removed.
The one that looked gangsterish was a The Great Gatsby.
No Siobhan this week, possibly a good thing after her damning indictment of our previous week’s current affairs effort. Julie setting and asking the questions this week. Happy to tackle subjects S usually avoids, hence dead Italian chef and a delicately phrased Kevin Spacey question. We were firmly back in 7 out of 10 territory.
Food & drink for Rd 3. The fruit tra
ditionally found in a Sussex pond pudding is a lemon, Mary Berry dies a version with apples which was our answer but not traditional. Also Chilli Con Carne is Texan not Mexican. At least one of our team had sensed a bear trap there. Not me, but I got matar as being Indian for peas.
Ok. Now pay attention. Rd 4 was the chain letters round NOT connections. A round usually reserved to kick off the second half. We missed a couple, wrong cathedral for biggest bell, St Paul’s not St David’s and Yucca is somehow related to asparagus.
We missed the first ten pointer. Which animal is mentioned most often in the Bible. Others had heard
the question before, we hadn’t. Our choice of ass apparently only comes in fourth. Sheep was the
answer.
Second half kicked off with Science & Nature. David from Lady & The Tramp, looking I have to say less than his usual sartorially eleganct self, arrived having crucially missed the first half. The rest of
his team successfully managed to hoodwink him into thinking that this was the connections round. Even better after a few questions they managed to convince him that the connection was scouting. I this K2 was a knot, Troop works anyway, and something else was a kind of tent. Our only clean sheet of the day, fairly perfunctory.
By this time news was reaching us by electronic means that a Hound victory had taken place elsewhere.
Tina Hound had won Surrey and East Sussex Behind the scenes Employee of the Year! And here is
the tipsy recipient herself all the way from a Golf Club in Reigate. A look at the award...
Not much later a taxi/limo arrived fir Mr & Mrs S, leaving Robson and I to both try and rescue the Jeopardy round, and to minesweep G&Ts and Kronenbourg left behind.
We failed on the former, having no idea how many units of alcohol are recommended as a weekly
maximum for ladies by the UK govt. the advice could have changed whilst we were quizzing quite frankly. We blew out by putting skin as the only organ on the human body that is able to regenerate. The required answer was liver, which was mentioned, but the question should perhaps have said
internal organ? Another fairly dubious question asserted that the tortoise is the animal that usually lives the longest. Could write a thesis on this one, there is A jellyfish species believed to be immortal (still subject to predators and natural disasters but none known to die of old age). Clams have been recorded at 507 years old.
Maybe I’m just a bad loser. A new PB of 620 points, but still 70 short of The Anoraks winning score in 3rd place. Think we got a Bruno Mars song correct, another first.
This fellow and his well dockumented shortcoming also featured..
Oh yes, and ther were egg sandwiches.
G-Force
.
Sunday, 29 October 2017
Spooky Hound
Three of us this week. Although Kevster and I arrived first, Daren clearly had a head-start on us elsewhere and wasn't to be trusted as scribe so Kevin took the honours. Also a change of scenery, Halloween celebrations required a 7 foot dummy next to our normal table which made annoying noises around every 30 seconds so we moved elsewhere. The next team just unplugged the darn thing. I don't known, grown men dressing up in "scary" costumes. Not always a fan of Americanisms but "lame" sums this all up quite nicely.
So the quiz, this fella anyone?
Not exactly mainstream. Think we got the other nine but "celebrity" chef is pushing it with this bloke. In this country anyway. Wolfgang Puck in case you were wondering. The current affairs, well more on this later but there were a few punts where we did back the wrong horse. So soap and not toilet paper was said by Ryanair to be non-essential and it was the Canvey Island not the Isle of Sheppey who declared independence. Or something.
Round 3 was triple words, so Wet Wet Wet, Spend Spend Spend and the like. Think we managed her to get the right answer for the wrong question, not knowing that 69 Paradise Passage (really) referenced Gimme Gimme Gimme the TV show and the Abba song in question was actually Money Money Money. Spot a pattern?
Bonus round here, as we didn't go last week Siobhan gave us that picture round for our amusement, so away go go.
Connections and a fairly tame link of hats, "balmoral", "sun", "halo" and the like. On the ten pointers, credit for whoever said that Dandy Horse was the forerunner name to the bicycle, know if wasn't me.
Onto link ups and somewhere along the line, we had credible answers and they did link-up but a few of them were wrong. So Tonto's horse was actually called Scout and indeed cocoa is mainly grown in the Ivory Coast and Ghana. But there were some good answers as well. Onto jeopardy and this was one we didn't know.
Handsome chap I thought. Goes by the name of a caracal, think bird was the only answer postulated. And Eric the Eel, knew he was central African and with a gun to my head would have correctly gone Equatorial Guinea but no confidence. Ah, Marge Simpson, another picture I think.
Now I've seen the Simpsons quite a lot but didn't know she wears a green dress. At least I knew I didn't know it but there we are. Music, I think we got nine songs and artists and had gone to the gents by the time the Maltesers question came.
Well, we din't win. And frankly we wouldn't have won with an optimised jeopardy round either, one for the Busters.
Much of the rest of the evening was spent debating whether UHNW (ultra high new worth) was better than CNW (colossal net worth). Yep, it had come to that; in the words of Siobhan, we were horrendous at the current affairs.
So the quiz, this fella anyone?
Not exactly mainstream. Think we got the other nine but "celebrity" chef is pushing it with this bloke. In this country anyway. Wolfgang Puck in case you were wondering. The current affairs, well more on this later but there were a few punts where we did back the wrong horse. So soap and not toilet paper was said by Ryanair to be non-essential and it was the Canvey Island not the Isle of Sheppey who declared independence. Or something.
Round 3 was triple words, so Wet Wet Wet, Spend Spend Spend and the like. Think we managed her to get the right answer for the wrong question, not knowing that 69 Paradise Passage (really) referenced Gimme Gimme Gimme the TV show and the Abba song in question was actually Money Money Money. Spot a pattern?
Bonus round here, as we didn't go last week Siobhan gave us that picture round for our amusement, so away go go.
Connections and a fairly tame link of hats, "balmoral", "sun", "halo" and the like. On the ten pointers, credit for whoever said that Dandy Horse was the forerunner name to the bicycle, know if wasn't me.
Onto link ups and somewhere along the line, we had credible answers and they did link-up but a few of them were wrong. So Tonto's horse was actually called Scout and indeed cocoa is mainly grown in the Ivory Coast and Ghana. But there were some good answers as well. Onto jeopardy and this was one we didn't know.
Handsome chap I thought. Goes by the name of a caracal, think bird was the only answer postulated. And Eric the Eel, knew he was central African and with a gun to my head would have correctly gone Equatorial Guinea but no confidence. Ah, Marge Simpson, another picture I think.
Now I've seen the Simpsons quite a lot but didn't know she wears a green dress. At least I knew I didn't know it but there we are. Music, I think we got nine songs and artists and had gone to the gents by the time the Maltesers question came.
Well, we din't win. And frankly we wouldn't have won with an optimised jeopardy round either, one for the Busters.
Much of the rest of the evening was spent debating whether UHNW (ultra high new worth) was better than CNW (colossal net worth). Yep, it had come to that; in the words of Siobhan, we were horrendous at the current affairs.
Friday, 13 October 2017
Just Call Us Hound
Right, pre quiz activity had a few chunk of putting the world to rights this week. So in no particular order:
- Works bashes once you've left, pop in but they've moved on, so have you
- EU - a good idea at one point, all went a bit far
- Bitcoin - we missed the boat on that one
Plus we're all doomed, but at least we have the Hound blog.
First an update from the Scout quiz last Saturday in two part pictorial form. Exhibit A:
Half time and in fourth, allowing for jokers, just about disputing the lead.
Onto this week and it kicked off with a bunch of chanteuses.
It was the lovely Alesha who vexed us the most, well done Kevster there. And just to prove we're not racist, she came in at Number 2.
Current affairs stuff and given the team's proclivities, I suggest high-tailing down to Morrisons for some of this:
I can't wait.
Next round was nicknames, aka if you like. This time we were foxed by Jacob Gerschovitz and felt if this was George Gerschwin trying to sound less Jewish, he wasn't making a very good job of it. So we went for Liberace, Władziu Valentino Liberace as it happens. It was indeed George.
Onto the connections and the answers "Oven" and "Disposable" led me to the rather unimaginative theme of "gloves", later to be confirmed by the no more cryptic answers of "rubber" and "gardening". We still managed to confuse ourselves on the role of Parker in Thunderbirds, who apparently doubles as a butler and chauffeur, butler gloves being akin to those worn by a snooker referee.
Well done to Graham for bagging Little Jimmy Osmond as the youngest number one singles artist in the UK on the ten pointers, the other two didn't trouble us. Oldest equivalent anyone?
Right, back to last Saturday.
A rip-roaring second half saw us storm to victory, but notice the first and second columns. although credited for the correction that the brown is indeed worth 4 in snooker (3 really?), it wasn't felt appropriate to adjust our total. We really do have to watch that lot. Felt the sausage and mash let them down as well.
Connections looped around the way they should, Olivander's wands linking back to Espana with Butch Cassidy in between (Last lime - Oh, good. For a moment there I thought we were in trouble). So as ever, the Jeopardy was going to matter. No amount of time would tell us what musical "Gypsies in the Wood" came from. Where's Pete when you need him. We had credible but not much better than 50/50 answers for Prince Phillip's birth island (Corfu) and what a Brannoch device does (measures shoe size). So we settled for 7.
Onto the nearest the pin and either Graham's maths or US Presidents knowledge let him down and we shared someone else's minstrels. So final orders of business:
- Hound win by 3, hurrah! I have the £50.
- There's another Anorak charity quiz near Tattenham Corner on the 21st, suspect I'm unlikely for that.
- We were behind at half time, don't underestimate the importance of music and getting those extra answers these days.
Thunderous applause....
- Works bashes once you've left, pop in but they've moved on, so have you
- EU - a good idea at one point, all went a bit far
- Bitcoin - we missed the boat on that one
Plus we're all doomed, but at least we have the Hound blog.
First an update from the Scout quiz last Saturday in two part pictorial form. Exhibit A:
Half time and in fourth, allowing for jokers, just about disputing the lead.
Onto this week and it kicked off with a bunch of chanteuses.
It was the lovely Alesha who vexed us the most, well done Kevster there. And just to prove we're not racist, she came in at Number 2.
Current affairs stuff and given the team's proclivities, I suggest high-tailing down to Morrisons for some of this:
I can't wait.
Next round was nicknames, aka if you like. This time we were foxed by Jacob Gerschovitz and felt if this was George Gerschwin trying to sound less Jewish, he wasn't making a very good job of it. So we went for Liberace, Władziu Valentino Liberace as it happens. It was indeed George.
Onto the connections and the answers "Oven" and "Disposable" led me to the rather unimaginative theme of "gloves", later to be confirmed by the no more cryptic answers of "rubber" and "gardening". We still managed to confuse ourselves on the role of Parker in Thunderbirds, who apparently doubles as a butler and chauffeur, butler gloves being akin to those worn by a snooker referee.
Well done to Graham for bagging Little Jimmy Osmond as the youngest number one singles artist in the UK on the ten pointers, the other two didn't trouble us. Oldest equivalent anyone?
Right, back to last Saturday.
A rip-roaring second half saw us storm to victory, but notice the first and second columns. although credited for the correction that the brown is indeed worth 4 in snooker (3 really?), it wasn't felt appropriate to adjust our total. We really do have to watch that lot. Felt the sausage and mash let them down as well.
Connections looped around the way they should, Olivander's wands linking back to Espana with Butch Cassidy in between (Last lime - Oh, good. For a moment there I thought we were in trouble). So as ever, the Jeopardy was going to matter. No amount of time would tell us what musical "Gypsies in the Wood" came from. Where's Pete when you need him. We had credible but not much better than 50/50 answers for Prince Phillip's birth island (Corfu) and what a Brannoch device does (measures shoe size). So we settled for 7.
Onto the nearest the pin and either Graham's maths or US Presidents knowledge let him down and we shared someone else's minstrels. So final orders of business:
- Hound win by 3, hurrah! I have the £50.
- There's another Anorak charity quiz near Tattenham Corner on the 21st, suspect I'm unlikely for that.
- We were behind at half time, don't underestimate the importance of music and getting those extra answers these days.
Thunderous applause....
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Open All Hounds
A bit late again, working long hours at the mo. No, none of your sympathy thanks. Lost the pictures, various comedians as I recall, we mistook a Scottish one for another Scottish one. Good effort Hound.
Couldn’t remember the offending rugby star missing the Grand Final - Zak Hardaker, not sure he would have bridged the rather large gap between Leeds and Cas had he played. Just a shame that the really loud Cas fan from the last play-off wasn’t around when I was watching that, given his size I wouldn’t have said anything but I could have at least smirked.
Round 3 was ‘Top Row’. Not gentleman’s leisure reading as I originally thought but ten answers starting QWERTYUIOP. Rotten Row, the glorified horse track in Hyde Park probably the hardest get.
The connection this week eluded us and everyone else. I think I was tantalisingly close when this fella came up...
Couldn’t remember the offending rugby star missing the Grand Final - Zak Hardaker, not sure he would have bridged the rather large gap between Leeds and Cas had he played. Just a shame that the really loud Cas fan from the last play-off wasn’t around when I was watching that, given his size I wouldn’t have said anything but I could have at least smirked.
The connection this week eluded us and everyone else. I think I was tantalisingly close when this fella came up...
... but Status Quo and Tim Burton switching the Blackpool illuminations on, who’d have guessed it.
Meissen might have been the European pottery in the chain letters round, or maybe we put that and it was something else. Ecclesiastic caused some trouble but fit in the end.
Did I mention that we got the ten pointers? I did not, but I am now.
So, not necessarily flat out in The JPD round, but going well after 7. ‘Hushabye Mountain’ is from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Petticoat Lane the market in Middlesex Street, and the 13th amendment abolished slavery. Then this fella came up...
...just what is the characters Christian name? Daren, did Tina get it because Clare and Jane both did? Turned out to be Albert. Daren had the initial sorted. 9 right plus a solid music round felt good enough and so it proved. Lady & The Tramp apparently let Henry VIII’s last wife scupper them talking themselves out of the right answer. A close one with 5 points covering the top 4.
Next up would be the cub quiz in Bynes Rd, read about that elsewhere.
Friday, 29 September 2017
The Hounds of New York
Daren, Graham and myself for this week. The latter two are entering one of those rare phases of the year that we do some volunteering work, so time a bit shorter than usual. Highlight of my day was a cycle to, and fine lunch at the Lamb Inn at Lamb's Green near Rusper. That doesn't really back up the previous statement does it?
The Lamb
The quiz, well first up was a bunch of European landmarks, The Little Mermaid, The Louvre, that sort of thing. Routine 8 or so here I think. Onto current affairs. Don't think any of us had been paying much attention as we missed a few here. A really heavy Egyptian woman had just died, China have banned something else and a virus, we all thought had pretty much gone a hundred years ago has officially been eliminated in the UK. Blink and you'll miss them folks.
The next round was fun in that each answer had an A as every other letter. So CANADA, YAMAHA and SAHARA as the first three answers set the tone. Despite such help, we didn't know that Diego Valasquez de Cuellar founded Havana and not Caracas and din't have much of a clue on the books of Yasunari Kawabata, though to be fair, we've probably mis-spelt correct answers worse, think we went with Katayama. Here's the fella.
The connections proved less tricky in terms of answers, we had all nine, but were still foxed by the connection. Well played to Daren here and his growing horticultural knowledge for coming up roses. Graham claimed an assist here but I'm not having it. The ten pointers were curiously straightforward and the overall feeling was that it was still all to play for.
A general diversion was provided here for most of the first half of the quiz by a bloke who seemed to have taken a wrong turn on the M1 and was vociferously supporting Castleford Tigers in their game against St Helens. I know, rugby league! To be fair, it was a one point win by a drop goal in golden point extra time so we should forgive the lad.
So, link-ups. Think we squared the circle here without much back-solving. Eulogy led to Young, AA Milne to Estonia and Ambush took it back to Hannibal.
So the jeopardy. Anyone going to give me this geezer?
But at least one team did. We had no clue though. We had a strong clue on the film containing the gang - "The Dead Rabbits". Not many films would fit the bill other than that implied by this blog title. We really didn't know and we've made the mistake before in the jeopardy of putting two and two together and not getting there. So pitching for 8. Music and I think the only one foxing us was "Truly Madly Deeply". Here's the link if you want to see the video, doubt if you do though.
So, maybe a few left out there but not a bad performance. Well, quite the blanket finish resulted.
149 - Some new team I can't remember the name of
149 - Hound
150 - The Anoraks
So a cliffhanger for the second week running but just the wrong side of that wire. Always the tendency to focus on the ones that got away but I still think pound for pound we're punching above our weight. Just.
The link hasn't worked has it but I really don't think anyone is going to miss it; and fine stuff from England in the cricket.
The Lamb
The quiz, well first up was a bunch of European landmarks, The Little Mermaid, The Louvre, that sort of thing. Routine 8 or so here I think. Onto current affairs. Don't think any of us had been paying much attention as we missed a few here. A really heavy Egyptian woman had just died, China have banned something else and a virus, we all thought had pretty much gone a hundred years ago has officially been eliminated in the UK. Blink and you'll miss them folks.
The next round was fun in that each answer had an A as every other letter. So CANADA, YAMAHA and SAHARA as the first three answers set the tone. Despite such help, we didn't know that Diego Valasquez de Cuellar founded Havana and not Caracas and din't have much of a clue on the books of Yasunari Kawabata, though to be fair, we've probably mis-spelt correct answers worse, think we went with Katayama. Here's the fella.
The connections proved less tricky in terms of answers, we had all nine, but were still foxed by the connection. Well played to Daren here and his growing horticultural knowledge for coming up roses. Graham claimed an assist here but I'm not having it. The ten pointers were curiously straightforward and the overall feeling was that it was still all to play for.
A general diversion was provided here for most of the first half of the quiz by a bloke who seemed to have taken a wrong turn on the M1 and was vociferously supporting Castleford Tigers in their game against St Helens. I know, rugby league! To be fair, it was a one point win by a drop goal in golden point extra time so we should forgive the lad.
So, link-ups. Think we squared the circle here without much back-solving. Eulogy led to Young, AA Milne to Estonia and Ambush took it back to Hannibal.
So the jeopardy. Anyone going to give me this geezer?
But at least one team did. We had no clue though. We had a strong clue on the film containing the gang - "The Dead Rabbits". Not many films would fit the bill other than that implied by this blog title. We really didn't know and we've made the mistake before in the jeopardy of putting two and two together and not getting there. So pitching for 8. Music and I think the only one foxing us was "Truly Madly Deeply". Here's the link if you want to see the video, doubt if you do though.
So, maybe a few left out there but not a bad performance. Well, quite the blanket finish resulted.
149 - Some new team I can't remember the name of
149 - Hound
150 - The Anoraks
So a cliffhanger for the second week running but just the wrong side of that wire. Always the tendency to focus on the ones that got away but I still think pound for pound we're punching above our weight. Just.
The link hasn't worked has it but I really don't think anyone is going to miss it; and fine stuff from England in the cricket.
Saturday, 23 September 2017
Multiple Birthday Hound
Another Thursday and we had the full Louis, Liam, Zayn, Niall and Harry. Or based on ages, maybe Simon, John, Roger, Nick and Andy. Actually way more appropriate names for our generation. Talking of which, the most interesting pre quiz activity was the conversation Kevster overheard of a lady on the bus debating who should be the father of her forthcoming sprog. If only she'd followed him to the Purley Arms, a whole new gene pool to have a go at.
Onto the quiz and we kicked off with a bunch of comedians who may or may not be female, we don't assume gender these days. The first name of the Conti girl escaped us but well done to who bagged Roisin Conaty.
At some time around here, Graham was searching for the mnemonic to order the size of champagne bottles. I think Michael Jackson Makes Small Boys Nervous should do the trick. The usual current affairs stuff, JK Rowling has been selling non-boda fide pasties, Olivia is the top girls name of 2016 and the Ryan Air pilots rejected a 12,000 euro bonus to postpone their holidays? I mean, they are pilots, would they fly somewhere on their holidays? Weirdest of all was the 11 year old whose dearest wish, granted by Trump, was to mow the White House lawn.
That kid can go far.
Scissors, Paper, Stone was the theme of round 3. It took a bit of convincing to report that Giles appeared in the Express rather than the Daily Mail (guessing this is the paper part). Sadly no questions on Lizard or Spock, just as well as I still can't do the Vulcan salute.
Connections was clearly the people but struggling again for the link. Proved to be Hollywood Walk of Fame or something like that. On ten pointers, it was the fastest to 100 Premier League goals that vexed us to the most. Ferdinand (Les not Rio) had his supporters and he probably did get a bit of a start on Shearer but the pace of his goalscoring always makes him favourite for this kind of question. Ferdy always enjoyed a few days on the treatment table every now and again from memory as well.
So half time arrived and we didn't feel we had done a lot wrong. Second half? Well it kicked off with a fine call of three beaches all being linked by being nudist, Strudland Bay among others. Looking at where they are in the UK, nearly all on the South Coast other than the marvellous Crakaig Beach in Northern Scotland below. Fair play to anyone braving that.
A typical day on Crakaig Beach.
Onto Jeopardy and to be honest, not that much debate. Hippocrates founded Greek medicine, ravens guard the Tower of London and Helen Shapiro worked for Mars. It would be all in. Music was tougher than sometimes the case this week, Siobhan clearly pandering to the youngsters in allowing songs made after the year 2000 into the quiz but it felt like a satisfactory night's work.
So tension rose as results read out and no specific mentions in the jeopardy. Anoraks 163, Hound 171, Busters 171! So tie break? Share the cash? To our credit, we don't do half measures, no sharing of cash but did collectively agree a charity donation, not that we like to talk about it. So a pleasing night's work and great to have the full team.
Last Item of Business - Hound Baash 22.12.2017. Ink it in.
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Onto the quiz and we kicked off with a bunch of comedians who may or may not be female, we don't assume gender these days. The first name of the Conti girl escaped us but well done to who bagged Roisin Conaty.
At some time around here, Graham was searching for the mnemonic to order the size of champagne bottles. I think Michael Jackson Makes Small Boys Nervous should do the trick. The usual current affairs stuff, JK Rowling has been selling non-boda fide pasties, Olivia is the top girls name of 2016 and the Ryan Air pilots rejected a 12,000 euro bonus to postpone their holidays? I mean, they are pilots, would they fly somewhere on their holidays? Weirdest of all was the 11 year old whose dearest wish, granted by Trump, was to mow the White House lawn.
That kid can go far.
Scissors, Paper, Stone was the theme of round 3. It took a bit of convincing to report that Giles appeared in the Express rather than the Daily Mail (guessing this is the paper part). Sadly no questions on Lizard or Spock, just as well as I still can't do the Vulcan salute.
Connections was clearly the people but struggling again for the link. Proved to be Hollywood Walk of Fame or something like that. On ten pointers, it was the fastest to 100 Premier League goals that vexed us to the most. Ferdinand (Les not Rio) had his supporters and he probably did get a bit of a start on Shearer but the pace of his goalscoring always makes him favourite for this kind of question. Ferdy always enjoyed a few days on the treatment table every now and again from memory as well.
So half time arrived and we didn't feel we had done a lot wrong. Second half? Well it kicked off with a fine call of three beaches all being linked by being nudist, Strudland Bay among others. Looking at where they are in the UK, nearly all on the South Coast other than the marvellous Crakaig Beach in Northern Scotland below. Fair play to anyone braving that.
A typical day on Crakaig Beach.
Onto Jeopardy and to be honest, not that much debate. Hippocrates founded Greek medicine, ravens guard the Tower of London and Helen Shapiro worked for Mars. It would be all in. Music was tougher than sometimes the case this week, Siobhan clearly pandering to the youngsters in allowing songs made after the year 2000 into the quiz but it felt like a satisfactory night's work.
So tension rose as results read out and no specific mentions in the jeopardy. Anoraks 163, Hound 171, Busters 171! So tie break? Share the cash? To our credit, we don't do half measures, no sharing of cash but did collectively agree a charity donation, not that we like to talk about it. So a pleasing night's work and great to have the full team.
Last Item of Business - Hound Baash 22.12.2017. Ink it in.
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Saturday, 16 September 2017
Google Pics Hound
Another decent turnout, 6 sizeable teams. Robson has bought the cheapest tablet on the market and plans to go to Palace v Southampton, Daren is upping his meds and being nice to cats, and yours truly may have to spend some time up north mummy sitting.
Famous leaders when they were younger, we didn't get 7 (can't remember who), or 10 (Berlusconi).
Current affairs not too bad, 20 or so hours in nobody has seen a plastic tenner with Jane Austen on the back yet. Apple's latest gadget phone cost £1K, France has the 2024 olympics and George Osborne may be a serial killer.
The long promised Cult TV round then ensued. Daren dredged up 'Burt with a U' Ward as playing Robin in the sixties, I successfully learned the Prisoners number when swotting up, Robin knew Buffy's surname. The Pangalactic Gargleblaster was a team effort.
Connections round went Eye of the Tiger, Plymouth Hoe, Shin Pads etc. Ok, body parts then. Goddess of the rainbow, Iris probably the hardest, Desert Island Discs topical given our pre match discussion of said body parts. Ten pointers successfully negotiated, but we needed all 3 minutes to zero in on Louis XVI as being Marie Antoinette's other half.
Missed a couple of chain letter q's again. 2002 Winter Olympics were in Salt Lake City, and we also missed the widely renowned Yordas cave situated in N Yorks.
Somewhere around this point a lovely surprise. Daren's mystery phone call turned out to be Tina on her way back from Brighton dropping in to boost numbers. A solid start but we didn't feel that we should stick our neck out on 'Sailing By' being the theme music for the shipping forecast or some other question that was surely Amsterdam but we didn't actually know. Some debate over whether Kevin Kline or Mike Palin won best supporting role oscar for Wanda (it was KK, but he would'not have got Robson's vote). And a spelling debate regarding skin pigment substance.
Nailed the music on first listen, except may have put down wrong Squeeze song. First place, deserved I think, but as ever margins on the Jeopardy were thin.
Julie's cubs have a GK quiz on Sat 7 Oct, usual two-course dining plus raffle for £10 a head. BYO booze. I'm in.
Daren recommended Google pics to add images to blog. What fun!
Famous leaders when they were younger, we didn't get 7 (can't remember who), or 10 (Berlusconi).
Current affairs not too bad, 20 or so hours in nobody has seen a plastic tenner with Jane Austen on the back yet. Apple's latest gadget phone cost £1K, France has the 2024 olympics and George Osborne may be a serial killer.
The long promised Cult TV round then ensued. Daren dredged up 'Burt with a U' Ward as playing Robin in the sixties, I successfully learned the Prisoners number when swotting up, Robin knew Buffy's surname. The Pangalactic Gargleblaster was a team effort.
Connections round went Eye of the Tiger, Plymouth Hoe, Shin Pads etc. Ok, body parts then. Goddess of the rainbow, Iris probably the hardest, Desert Island Discs topical given our pre match discussion of said body parts. Ten pointers successfully negotiated, but we needed all 3 minutes to zero in on Louis XVI as being Marie Antoinette's other half.
Missed a couple of chain letter q's again. 2002 Winter Olympics were in Salt Lake City, and we also missed the widely renowned Yordas cave situated in N Yorks.
Somewhere around this point a lovely surprise. Daren's mystery phone call turned out to be Tina on her way back from Brighton dropping in to boost numbers. A solid start but we didn't feel that we should stick our neck out on 'Sailing By' being the theme music for the shipping forecast or some other question that was surely Amsterdam but we didn't actually know. Some debate over whether Kevin Kline or Mike Palin won best supporting role oscar for Wanda (it was KK, but he would'not have got Robson's vote). And a spelling debate regarding skin pigment substance.
Nailed the music on first listen, except may have put down wrong Squeeze song. First place, deserved I think, but as ever margins on the Jeopardy were thin.
Julie's cubs have a GK quiz on Sat 7 Oct, usual two-course dining plus raffle for £10 a head. BYO booze. I'm in.
Daren recommended Google pics to add images to blog. What fun!
Friday, 8 September 2017
Peak Hound, Lake Hound
in the week that hurricane Irma wreaked havoc across the Caribbean Robson Hound returned from the Peak District whilst Daren Hound returned from the Lake District.
Off to a late start, to Steve's chagrin, due to a lack of teams but by about 20:45 enough people had turned up to form 6 teams.
Round one was Road Signs, which was dispatched with aplomb and lead to the talking point of puffins, toucans, zebras, pelicans and more surprisingly, Pegasus.
Current affairs contained Stormzy calling Theresa May a 'Paigon' and Aeroflot being forced to end its ban on Stewardesses above a size 16. Elsewhere Iran had banned women from buying tickets to a men's football match. What a strange world we live in.
The next round was intriguingly entitled 'The light round'. Turns out that the lighthouses on Lundy Island are in the county of Devon, not Somerset. The other question that troubled us was what did the BBC light programme rebrand itself as in 1967. We put BBC2 when we should have answered Radio2. So close.
Connections round was identified fairly early on; Phil Bailey, Isla Fisher, Viking.........? At this stage we were hoping for a question along the lines of 'What is Stan Collymore's favourite pastime?' Unfortunately Dogger never came up but Tyne Daly, Trafalgar Del Shannon etc confirmed the connection .
The 10 pointers lead to a difference of opinion. Which boy band was Colin Farrell in? Not for the first time Robson had a gut feeling for westlife. Two of us thought it was Boyzone but with a 50/50 split we decided to go with the gut feeling. The fictional author of 'Fly Fishing' and the Saint's day of Shakespeare's birth and death were both clipped away to the covers quite easily but it turned out that Westlife proved to be our googly (I'm watching the cricket as I write this- could you tell?)
Things started going askew in the connections round; We knew Addagio means slow but decided to twist the answer in order to fit the next. Our answer of SofT lead us to Tea but we should have answered SloW which should have lead us to Walnuts (Persian English, Black) and not Tea. We recovered for the rest of the roun but a sticky wicket of a start.
The Joe Perdy round was pretty straightforward. Too straightforward and Graham smelt a bear trap. If it looks like a bear trap and smells like a bear trap, it probably is a bear trap and so it proved. Indira Gandhi's father was not Mahatma but Nehru. All our other answers were correct but counted for nothing.
Music round was the usual eclectic mixture of decades and genres with Yakety-Yak proving to be the most popular sing along track.
So, we finished a distant 4th but exactly a Boyzone and a Nehru behind the Anoraks who won with an impressive score of 173. Ah well, fine margins and all that but on to next week. TTFN.
Off to a late start, to Steve's chagrin, due to a lack of teams but by about 20:45 enough people had turned up to form 6 teams.
Round one was Road Signs, which was dispatched with aplomb and lead to the talking point of puffins, toucans, zebras, pelicans and more surprisingly, Pegasus.
Current affairs contained Stormzy calling Theresa May a 'Paigon' and Aeroflot being forced to end its ban on Stewardesses above a size 16. Elsewhere Iran had banned women from buying tickets to a men's football match. What a strange world we live in.
The next round was intriguingly entitled 'The light round'. Turns out that the lighthouses on Lundy Island are in the county of Devon, not Somerset. The other question that troubled us was what did the BBC light programme rebrand itself as in 1967. We put BBC2 when we should have answered Radio2. So close.
Connections round was identified fairly early on; Phil Bailey, Isla Fisher, Viking.........? At this stage we were hoping for a question along the lines of 'What is Stan Collymore's favourite pastime?' Unfortunately Dogger never came up but Tyne Daly, Trafalgar Del Shannon etc confirmed the connection .
The 10 pointers lead to a difference of opinion. Which boy band was Colin Farrell in? Not for the first time Robson had a gut feeling for westlife. Two of us thought it was Boyzone but with a 50/50 split we decided to go with the gut feeling. The fictional author of 'Fly Fishing' and the Saint's day of Shakespeare's birth and death were both clipped away to the covers quite easily but it turned out that Westlife proved to be our googly (I'm watching the cricket as I write this- could you tell?)
Things started going askew in the connections round; We knew Addagio means slow but decided to twist the answer in order to fit the next. Our answer of SofT lead us to Tea but we should have answered SloW which should have lead us to Walnuts (Persian English, Black) and not Tea. We recovered for the rest of the roun but a sticky wicket of a start.
The Joe Perdy round was pretty straightforward. Too straightforward and Graham smelt a bear trap. If it looks like a bear trap and smells like a bear trap, it probably is a bear trap and so it proved. Indira Gandhi's father was not Mahatma but Nehru. All our other answers were correct but counted for nothing.
Music round was the usual eclectic mixture of decades and genres with Yakety-Yak proving to be the most popular sing along track.
So, we finished a distant 4th but exactly a Boyzone and a Nehru behind the Anoraks who won with an impressive score of 173. Ah well, fine margins and all that but on to next week. TTFN.
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