Hound Of God - Remastered

Different team selection today. For the first time in about a month, Man U didn't have a Thursday game on, instead Tottenham were slicing through Leicester like their eponymous cheese. So we had Daren joining Graham and myself while Kevster railed about the heaviness of Heathrow traffic.

I have notes on the re-quiz chatter but they make no sense so on with the quiz, round 1, pictures of "E's". Elephant, egg-box, emeralds, etc (not actually pictured). For the Hound, they were good.

Emma Thompson, budding national treasure or whinging old harpie, you decide.

Current Affairs was, to continue recent trends, more mainstream than often the case though we went wrong supermarket again with Asda in place of Tesco and for a change, the Greeks and not the French are on strike. You just have to play the percentages in this game.

Round 3 would be sport-themed, loosely so. Who was the quote, "He looks as happy as a penguin in a microwave" assigned to? It only really makes sense with a Geordie accent.

Sid Waddell

Connections would be Oscar winners which I think Graham bagged in one with Sean Penn (Dallas Buyers Club?). Daren was looking for hidden demons and took his time to come round but the likes of Elton John and Halle Berry sealed the deal.

On ten pointers I only have the answers written down but I'm sure "Harry Potter", "Ride of the Valkyries" and "Goat" tell you all you need to know.

A goat.

Half-time and disappointingly, no sandwiches or snacks had emerged so we were forced to do our thing. Refreshed we tackled the link-ups, I'll take the rap for Invicibles and not Invictus being the SA rugby film but otherwise plain sailing. Onto jeopardy, first winner of Celebrity Big Brother anyone? These were the days when people watched it but not the three of us I'm afraid. Had we known it, I'd have fought my corner on the month Elvis died but as we were, it was two blanks. Fair play to anyone bagging it. Proved to be Jack Dee.

Music and I do believe Daren identified an Olly Murs track. Whether indeed it proved to be an Olly Murs track is a different matter but still progress in my book. Here's Keane, someone we all know.

Not the biggest field for this week's quiz and when it became clear no-one had bagged the jeopardy, hopes were raised and fears subsided. A confortable Hound win was the order of the day. Ok, a few items of business.

1. Congratulations to Grey(Hound) Round becoming the first blog page to hit 500 views. Thanks to those French and Ruskies, traffic has been mushrooming and we calculate by 2030, the Hound blog will be the only thing read on the internet.

2. No quiz at the PA next week due to a private function. Default fallback will be the Crown & Sceptre in South Croydon but if Steve or Kevster want to show us the mean streets of Reigate or Sutton, then what the hell.

That's all folks.