Pre Maundy Thursday Hound

3 quizzes in a row for me this week. I joined 3 Anoraks plus 3 others in a GK quiz at St Raphael’s hospice on Wednesday eve. A good win, bottle of wine each. Tim anorak also won a bottle of gin in the raffle. I was of use in the connections round which was also our joker round. Add a letter to each answer to get an Irish county. I nearly undid this work though by saying too many answers out loud. Better to write it down or give wrong answers. Comfortable 5 point win, good all round team effort.

On to the main event. not much to say about these pictures, except I worry for any team that never got all ten.

Possibly a first for Hound, a maximum ten in the Current Affairs round! Daren knew that the French now eat more burgers than baguettes. Other answers included socks (must be worn by men at Ascot this year), Cambridge Analytica, Ringo Starr, Gareth Bale, Sir Isaac Newton and the Northern White Rhino. I am sure that you can guess what the questions were. C of E churches were the latest to realise the benefits of having a credit card reader for payment.

Shades of red for Round 3. Victoria cross ribbon is crimson, marron glaces are rather sweet sounding chestnuts, Dijon is in The Burgundy region and Blood & Fire is the motto of the Salvation Army.

Cooking time 40 minutes.

Connections round fell in place about half way through, fashion designers. Allowed some back filling but we still couldn’t remember this tv characters surname.

Father Jack Hackett.

Difficulty with ten pointers for the second week running, although if I hadn’t vehemently dismisssed Daren’s answer of Hanson for the US group with the Christian names Taylor, Isaac and Zac we would have got two.

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Narrow miss on the new type of sentence introduced as part of the Criminal Justice Act 1972. Suspended sentences were dealt with extensively but not new at that time. Community service was the answer wanted.

A couple of small blips in the chain letters round. Cenotaph translates literally as empty tomb, and Harry McCarty was aka William H Bonney and Billy the Kid.

8 solid answers in the Jeopardy round. We avoided the bear trap, which British football team was the first to win a European trophy. I was fifty-fifty for Spurs/West Ham, the former being correct. Pretty sure Plan would have beaten us if they hadn’t put Celtic.

But they did put Celtic and a majestic twenty points in the music round saw us into first place by 5 from Lady & Tramps.

I am going for the hat-trick at the Whitgift school on Friday night.

Note that next Thursday is Maundy Thursday. There is a Caterham train around 12.30 from Purley meeting in the Surrey Hounds opposite the station which may have changed it’s name. Steve, can you bring plenty of cash and a latest financial update. Thanks. A possible quiz in the King & Queens in Caterham-on-the-hill.

Talking of cash, this week marks our first win under the new you only get what is in the pot rule. £28.50 on this occasion.

G-Force.

Return of the Hound

It had been a long time. Halfway around the world and back to face again the ultimate challenge. The Hound strode into the arena like gladiators, triumphant from their latest conquests. We could feel the hot, burning sun on our backs as we drank in the roar of our adoring public. The arena was dry and dusty and as we surveyed the scene; familiar opponents lay in wait, The Busters, LATT, and the Anoraks.

So we got a drink and sat down ready for the quiz. Just Graham and myself this week and first up we were confronted by 10 Patricks, appropriate enough for the time of year.

Number eight was the one that vexed us, some politician?

Current affairs and we made a fair stab at this, though it was China not Russia who have scrapped the 2 presidential terms rule and it was Jake Quickenden and not "some random z-lister" who won Dancing On Ice. Though hang on?

True or false followed and again a reasonable show with less random questions than we used to get back in those days of the Jolly Farmers (shudder). Elvis was apparently a karate black belt and the African rhino does have two horns. We did know that rats can go a long time without water and that Donald Duck's middle name was Fauntleroy. Though that confuses me, as "Duck" is his species does that make my middle name Holmes? Did Donald maybe have a conventional surname, Smith or something? Maybe it was actually "Duck". Would have got confused if he'd ever been to Nottinghamshire though.

Too many questions. Connections played out ok, with answers including Bin, Bat, Super, Elephant leading us to the conclusion that "Man" was somehow the connection.

Ten pointers, now it got tough. Anyone know her?

Ten times world darts champion, Trina Gulliver apparently. Just to make things worse we didn't know that St Nicholas was patron saint of chidren as well as sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, brewers, pawnbrokers and students. Busy lad. Oh and Johnny Depp's first firm role was on one of the Nightmare On Elm Street films.

So fair to say we were up against it after all that. The chain letters worked fine, bit of backsolving when there were multiple options but that's all part of it. So the jeopardy, it had to be all in, bet the farm etc. And so we did, with disregard about whether it was right or not until this fellow came along.

An architect by the name of Sir Giles Gilbert-Scott. Among his works, and there are a lot, he designed the British red telephone box. Who knew?

Well we had others wrong and it was strangely lacklustre in the music as well. So we almost had a chance of coming last but at least no if-onlys today. Excuses, saving ourselves for Cheltenham today.

Oh and if anyone out there thinks wheelchair curling is going to catch on as a spectator sport? No.