Big, big love Hound, ooh, ah, huh.

In the week that Tom Daley and his delightful partner announced they were having a baby, a man breast fed a baby and Oxfam seemed to cover themselves in glory it’s important to look to less enlightened times for some sort of perspective;

Anyway, on with the quiz. Only 2 Hounds present this week, myself and  Graham ‘gizza job’ Agozza. Steve and Kevster missing due to work commitments, Pete attending a 4 year olds birthday in his capacity as Father and young Robson being in Hong Kong, having taken a wrong turn somewhere.

Given that the week covered, Pancake day, Valentine’s and the Winter Olympics we had quite a few bases to cover. Graham was confident on the olympics as his “elder brother used to like Ski Sunday - when it was on”.

No surprise then when round 1 was born, died or happened on 14th February. See below which has some of our workings out, which may or not be right.

Current Affairs; Oxfam came up! Which US city has just had a record 11 day ‘murder free’ streak and what animal is the symbol for the Chinese New Year?

Round 3 was the correctly predicted Valentine’s Day. We sailed serenely through with answers of ; GroundhogDay, Shakespeare! Full moon and Valentino Rossi.

Connections; what connects, Bono, Snoop Dog, Sara Palin, Ron Howard and Jon Bon Jovi?  I still don’t have an answer for that one so perhaps Graham can recall. We didn’t get it, whatever it was.

10 pointeres; what was Peter Lodge the first person to say on the underground?. The Green Goddess and Mozambique were the 2 remaining answers and we were confident of having bagged the 30 points

Half time came and Graham was unhappy as Celtic were winning in the football.

Onto the second half 
Chain letters started ok but we went awry when I confused Nappa, which is a specially treated leather beginning with N with Nubuck, which is is a specially treated leather beginning with N. That meant we missed Kingfisher which would have possibly lead us to ‘Butterfly, oyster and diver’ being types of knives. Somehow we managed to get back on track .

Jeopardy - I have sparse notes for this round as presumably I was concentrating so hard on the answers as we had decided to go all out for the 10. Braeburn being an apple and the Jets and Sharks being the protagonists in West Side Story were simple fare but then things became a bit more tricky. A last minute decision to change Gold to Diamonds as the commodity that the 7 dwarves were mining would prove to be pivotal.

Onto the music, which included Fleetwood Mac and Labi Siffre and it was time for tea and medals.

Our ten pointers and a full house in jeopardy won the day, Beating the Anoraks into second place. 

If you want to know the answers to any of the questions above, send £10 to The Hound, C/O The Purley Arms, Purley. 1 question per household. Your Statutory rights are not affected, peace, love and out.

Here’s a picture of Robson in Silhouette with a strange man in the background