Gurdwara Hound

Great to have the full band together this week. Steve took the lead role, Kevster on guitar, Daren on bass, Graham on drums while I contented myself with flicking a tambourine and the occasional doo-wap backing vocals. With the quiz under threat, a show of strength from our brigade was required.

An odd mix of celebrities for round 1, including Pope Benedict, Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl. Maybe that's what pub quizzes are like in Germany. Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft anyone?

After a break there was enough news to drum up a current affairs round. We had been watching Wimbledon so knew about the flying ants and Venus's pink bra. But Laura Ashley and not TK Maxx isn't a great place to work and the Italian priest was courting punters with wine and not reward points.

So expecting a round on Cult TV - instead we had America. We weren't to be flustered though, knowing Pearl Harbor was attacked in December and the Waltons was based on Spencer's Mountain.

Billy Ray - an American

So would Cult TV form the connection? You know what, it almost could with June Carter, Danny Glover and John Wayne. Someone's going to have to help me out here, what was the connection?

Ten pointers - bit tricky here but Basho prevailed as a sumo tournament, Jimmy Stewart's character in Wonderful Life may also have appeared here.

Onto the linkups and this fellow?

Rich Uncle Pennybags apparently; not really important, monopoly and we were on our way.

Right, jeopardy and while five heads are unquestionably an advantage, it means five opinions bombarding Steve in the scribe role. Was gurdwara Buddist? Is it a beagle or a basset promoting Hush Puppies? and what did that Francis Galton fellow invent? Quite a lot actually, his Wikipedia entry describes him as:
Sir Francis Galton, FRS was an English Victorian statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician. I barely get time to read the paper between morning coffee and lunch. No wonder he gets this fine bridge named after him.

Galton bridge

Decisions were made and stuck with.

Music and other than confusion between the Mixtures and Mungo Jerry, fairly routine. Right, for once we'd maximised our jeopardy score, writing down our right answers and eschewing the wrong ones. Hurrah! Win for the Hound! Could be one of the last £50s that goes in the coffers, lets hope not eh?

Points of business:

- Hold 23rd September - I think. Pete's birthday, the big one.

- Given this and Plumpton is the day after, what about a return to Fontwell on the 10th September?

- Open at Hound Towers if anyone fancies it in two weeks?

That's my lot.