The Full Hound

Greetings from the Purley Arms again. Just Graham and myself again as dry January continues to wreak havoc. In fact, a fairly quiet evening all in all down the pub with only four teams I think, although the swarming collective that is the Busters seemed even more numerous than normal.

Ok, to start.

Chocolate bars and I realised I've scanned them upside, however, maybe you eat them that way? Nothing too obscure here with a bunch of selection box favourites and a rare full house to get us going. Next up current affairs and the Daren approach actually let us down as neither of the answers were Asda.

By far my favourite question though was "For what reasons were 12 camels banned from a beauty contest in Saudi Arabia?" Here's a few of the darlings which may help?

Our answer of mascara was actually pretty tame compared with the true answer of botox. Truly raises a whole lot more questions than it answers. Graham was also delighted Gerry had included a question on Leeds Utds new club crest, somewhere between the Gaviscon ad and the Go West video IMHO.

The third round was on, largely fictional, bears. I guess the real ones don't get up to as much interesting stuff, other than the obvious. Most of the favourites made it in though, Paddington, Teddy, Rupert The. Other than some bear who featured in Wacky Races, a pretty good round.

Onto connections and my favourite flavour of this round; where the connection itself is pretty easy but you need it to work out some of the answers. Well played to Graham for getting it from answers of "Chelsea Dagger" and "White" though and yielding what Yperite is and the Beatles last concert venue.

Ten pointers and two relatively easy ones with only the first winners of the Six Nations Rugby testing us. It was always a bit of a punt and figuring England were strong around then we went with the percentages. It paid off and a decent first half under our belts.

Link ups and the gaps in the answers didn't get too out of control before we were able to back solve, Aberdeen as the first Scottish all seater stadium was never in until the initial A was there.
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Jeopardy and it started easy enough, before rapidly getting into the realms of impossible. So for example:

- What is the Irish equivalent of an MP?
- What were Private Godfrey's two sisters called in Dads Army?
- Who voiced Esmeralda in the 1996 Disney film?
- In which county is the Drax power station?
- How many Chance squares in Monopoly?
- Who wrote the Pied Piper of Hamlyn poem in 1842?

Not trappy, just difficult. Still, it took away any decisions about going all in. These fellas we did know though.

I think I've eaten one which doesn't make me feel a lot better.

Music and we actually bagged the two recent songs though being Adele and Ed Sheeran, they weren't the toughest. So would the Hound prevail? You bet your ass! And being outnumbered by around 5 to 1 by the Busters.

To next week, look forward to getting the full team in place.

Those answers:

- TD
- Dolly & Sissy
- Demi Moore
- North Yorkshire
- 3
- Robert Browning

So long folks.