There a quiz at 8 Hound.

Asked the barman if we could have the Footy on the tv to which he responded ‘Yes but there’s a quiz at 8’. You don’t say, not enough to prevent us from seeing Argentina capitulate though. We’re a trio today against only 3 other teams in the last quiz until 19 July I think.

Girl band members for the piccies, can’t find my copy so no scan. We mistook one for Cheryl on a bad day but it was someone else. Also got wrong member right band for this one...

Keisha Buchanan not Mutya Buena from the Sugababes.

Back to usual form with 6 correct in Current Affairs. Some hard to guess ones.

Didn’t do well either on round where all questions or answers were dot related. EnDOThermic being the most obscure but we got that one.

Music round instead of connections. Didn’t know that these 2 were originally Caesar and Cleo. Just one other wrong. Shane Ritchie Wham! Cover anyone?

How about that tache!

Ten pointer re first building with more than 100 floors tripped Anoraks up but not us. Empire State Building not Chrysler. After some agonising I correctly identified the dog from Back to the Future.

Einstein not Edison.

Clear Round on Chain Letters including Flemish Giant.

We skipped all the right ones in the Jeopardy round. The Scorpions were the rival gang of The T-Birds in Grease. Grimes is the surname of Jedward. And in a welcome return of the bear-trap The PM not the chancellor is the First Lord of the Treasury.

Romped in following the music round, a tougher quiz than recently. A good thing I think.

Shane Ritchie covered Young Guns not Last Christmas.

Reminder that Daren is hosting Chez Lui this Thurs, England v Belgium. He has kitty money to provide refreshments but bring any piece de resistances that you may have. 4pm is Daren’s opening gambit for arriving at his. Group H final games kick-off at 3pm. I am happy to meet at Kenley Hotel by Kenley station at 3pm to watch first half then walk to Daren’s if anyone cares to join me. Any alternative offers will be considered.

G-Force.

Darkest Peru Hound

Fresh from watching Saudi Arabia have their shorts pulled down by Russia (allegations of arms deals and OPEC gerrymandering were floated) we expected the quiz to have a World Cup theme. It was therefore no surprise when the opening picture round was flags of 10 participating countries.

This coat of arms in the middle of one of the flags foxed Graham, despite our urgings to write Perú

Apparently irs not A Llama but a Vicuna, a close relative. The tree provides quinine and the strange object at the bottom is a horn of plenty with gold coins spurting forth. The suspicion was that Graham refused to recognise it as he’s still smarting from the 3-1 thrashing they handed out to Scotland in the 1978 finals.https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x35ztrs

Dad”s Army will be commemorated on stamps which is nice and Sian Lloyd had also been in the news but not the weather presenter,

Chain letters was slightly different this week with the connector being the last 3 letters being the first 3 of the next word. I think we navigated this fairly easily.

The sandwiches arrived at this juncture and were much admired.

The 10 pointers were to prove our downfall. Capital of El Salvador, check, biopic movie about Johnny Cash, check.  Mountain on which the statue of Christ the Redeemer stands? Well, Robin! Nigel and myself went early for Sugar Loaf, Graham mulled it over and came up with Corcovado but no one else was able to verify this, which proved to be costly.

After this, my notes are rather sparse. Perhaps some of the following will make sense to the other attendees but my drug addled brain stops recording memories after a certain point in the night.

Constellations
Todd Carty
The Louvre
Most popular pizza in the world.

Anyway, the scores were eventually read out and it was no real surprise when we finished somewhat of the pace.

Anyway, on with the World Cup and on to next week.

Here’s a picture of my garden swimming pool room from Zante,

Pre World Cup Hound

The quiz fairly low in numbers this week, maybe everyone's girding their loins for the World Cup, other half of the pub quite busy with England on the telly.

First up was a round on quiz/game show presenters. If in doubt, some fella called Nick was probably the answer. This one wasn't though.

Graham knew him to give us a rare opening 10.

So in the news this week, a green card has been trialled in some football matches, learners can now drive on the motorway and some painting went for 7m euro. Lets have a look eh?

Not sure I'd have that in Hound Towers.

Round 3 was "Reading Between The Lines". As we didn't know one, and got another wrong, it took us a while to work out what the round was all about. Eventually the penny dropped with answers like "Dreadlock Holiday", "Torreador" and more prosaically, "The Reader". No number of hints were going to get us to the relatively recent Spielberg film though.

Connections and a relatively easy link, sleb chefs, Alf Ramsay, Mrs White, Tina Turner enabled a bit of backfilling of gaps, Floyd Patterson, Martin McGuinness. Another nailed round.

Ok, so which band supplied the winners in 2011 of both SCD and IACGMOOH? Well, we thought girl based so tried the usual suspects, Girls Aloud, Saturdays, Atomic Kitten, S Club, Steps. Don't know what we put down but it only turned out to be McFly. Now the internet will tell you McFly had 7 UK number ones but has ever a band with that record left such a dainty footprint on the firmament of music? Clearly Reality TV show watchers would have it differently. At least one of the other ten pointers was trappy though - this lady.

The picture maybe offering some clue as to the question.

The chain letters circled as they should and on to jeopardy. It was really one of those rare weeks where we had ten answers with quite the minimum of fuss. There were a few opportunities for bear traps, but they've been rarer lately, good to go.


Music, a few slips, the wrong Ronan Keating song, well, we only knew one, the wrong Michael Jackson song, a distinctly bigger field and the wrong "I Believe" singer. No matter, a storming win for the Hound, even nailing the year of the Montgolfier Bros flight to secure a domestic double.

On such football related matters, the quiz continues on Thursdays, with only the date of England's fixture with Belgium providing a break. And if D2's offer of hospitality still applies, that fits rather well.

New BloodHound

Robson and myself joined by Nigel and Gerry for the 3rd and 2nd time respectively.

Round 1 fashion designers, we got 10. Gerry with the best call on Karl Lagerfeld.

Current Affairs is getting easier or we are paying more attention. 9 out of 10 again. Missing only that New Zealand is the country planning an unprecedented cull of cattle to eridicate disease.

Fairly easy Food & Drink round followed. Momentary aberration led us to saying Massaman Curry is  Malaysian, should have been Thai.

Challenging connection which we only got at at Q7. All English rivers, Sark, Kemp, Fender, Camel (backfilled), Churn, Chess, and this one that finally did it for us.

The River Mole.

3 fairly standard 10 pointers including the Chicken Song by Spitting Image. 106 out of 110 at halfway mark. That perfect first half will surely come...

Not much to say about chain letters round except that we got them all. Daffodil, Liger... Nomad.

Jeopardy round started well. Only Robson knew this little mite’s name.

Mr Jingles/Jangles from the film The Green Mile. Thankfully Siobhan accepted either. Still going at Q8 but more than one opinion about what RSJ means in terms of load bearing in construction.

Rolled Steel Joist to be precise. I don’t think any of us got it quite right, so good one to swerve. Only 1 music point dropped, couldn’t recall Stephanie Mills as the singer of I Never Knew Love Like This Before. Good song guess for Judy Boucher by myself.

Won at a canter, against not much opposition to be fair. Would have won even if Jingles/Jangles had been marked harshly. Gerry retains a 100% record.

Quick mention of good day at Epsom the next day. Robson, Pete and Myself basking on the hill. Had a good few winners between us including in The Oaks itself.

G-Force