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.