Hound + D + 2

It’s Thursday in the PA and another Wake. The quiz is unavoidably packed into a slightly smaller space. Two Hounds present, myself and Robson. R has a new smart meter but it can’t cope with more than one utility, not as smart as it thinks it is. The Anoraks provided us with some warm-up material including a tricky set of 40 pairs of famous brothers. One of the sheets gives both Robson and I flashbacks to a wasted night at the Woolpack, Banstead that none of us will ever get back. ‘Duncan’s phone number and email address is appended to the question sheet. Both are available on application should anyone wish to troll him.

Not sure when we last had a pig photo so will interject with one here.

Onto the actual quiz, pictures of dj’s to kick-off...

We got 9 correct unaided, but then spotted David from Lady & The Tramp, sporting a natty paisley shirt this week, all alone and frankly forlorn. He was expecting team-mates, but didn’t need asking twice to join us. 2 became 3. He had been struggling at around 3 or 4 djs but thankfully recognised Ken Bruce our last missing answer.

Current Affairs next and Julie and Neil arrived to join David and 3 became 5. Usual 7 out of 10. Not very close to the item that President Macron of France wants to be formally recognised as a World Treasure - the baguette! We also failed to name Pegasus as the airline involved in a runway accident in Turkey, and Southsea as the home of the Akash curry house delivering to the South of France.

Rd. 3 is schools and education. A good team effort, we were docked one point for fresher instead of freshman as the first year undergraduate nickname. We missed the year that corporal punishment was banned in UK schools by one, 1986 not 1987.

We bagged the connection after 4 answers. The 3 that we had all included the letters ONE consecutively, enabling us to backfill Roy Orbison’s ‘Only The Lonely’. We had to think for the plant also known as Woodbine with Neil eventually getting Honeysuckle.

I was going to describe Robson’s boy band knowledge as encyclopedic at this stage but not sure that this lot are even in the reference books!

Croydon’s own Dane Bowers on left of this picture of Another Level. Well worth 10 points with at least one of our nearest rivals missing out.

Full marks for the chain letters. I recognised the Christian names of the Inbetweeners, but was not familiar with the term Gentleman’s Relish for anchovy paste (they both sound like euphemisms to me). Others were more enlightened.

Feeling in good shape going into the Jeopardy. After last week getting all ten but erring on the side of caution and leaving 3 out, we are collectively gung-ho this week. Rightly so as two that could have been traps turn out to be as straightforward as we hoped. Neil knew that Dune and Poison were by Dior, and this bloke also featured.

The obligatory recent pop tune cost us a perfect second half but 179 points with 153 in second place and a good evening’s work. Tramps kindly turned down a share of the winnings, not sure they believed me when I said that we would probably spend it at the races. 

No Robson for 4 weeks from Feb 15 so reinforcements will be needed.