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.