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.
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