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....