Sutton Uber Alles

 Three Hounds on parade at The Sutton Arms, one of 14 competing teams. Catch up on covid/kfc/late Xmas stories and more besides over the Picture Round…

We missed 2 and 8, some singer and some comedienne.

One slip-up in the current affairs, and I’m owning that one, putting dime instead of quarter for the American coin which is to feature Maya Angelou.

Top 5’s next with generally low scoring. We got only 1 of the top 5 googled TV shows during 2021 (3 Netflix, 2 Disney+). A more respectable 3 in the top 5 kedgeree ingredients according to the BBC. The team we marked scored 1 in total so 4 not necessarily too bad.

True/False 50/50 round included a ludicrous question about Bryan Adam’s song “Summer of ‘69”. Pulp formed in the seventies, we went for eighties.

We maxed the Alpha Links round including some fairly obscure musical questions. 

Connections  round answers were Ascot, Coast, Tacos and Costa, the link being fairly easy to spot.

Their version of the Jeopardy round to finish, only 5 bonus pts for getting 10 right. We steered clear of the Downton Abbey question which proved to be the downfall of the Anoraks. It was filmed in Hampshire, albeit very close to the Berkshire border. Kevster impressed with knowing that Lamborghini started out selling tractors. 40/60 and a very respectable second place, we left out two that we would have got right in the last round but even then would have lost on the tie-break which we apparently didn’t answer!

Sorry for lack of photos, couldn’t quite get them to work. 

Date for the diary, Thurs  Feb 3. Possible quiz at the Racehorse in Carshalton.More to follow from Robson.

All Around My Hound

Going to be a bit haphazard here. That's not, in any way due to by blogging notes being lost/misplaced/eaten by the dog. Categorically not.

Cheltenham Gold Cup day is the 13th March this year. Unlucky for some? Frankly when has it ever been lucky? As mentioned the Hills opposite the Smugglers is now shut, along with so many, Trevor Horn's fault apparently. Popping over to place a bet is very much part of it so I'm going to throw in The Purley Arms (known to some of you I believe) as a possible alternative. They'll be showing it all, lots of TVs and a Corals up the road. But open to other suggestions.

In similar vein Maundy Thursday falls on the 9th April. London already postulated as a venue, let's hope we're not all in lockdown by then.

Ok, seeing if my scanner is working....

Number 3 vexed us. Number 5 didn't but should have done (i.e. we got it wrong). Anyone?

Various questions followed. Corona really does seem to have taken over and not deemed too depressing

One other story that did creep through is that the Swiss village of Mitholz may be closed for up to 10 years while WWII munitions are cleared. What a lovely place!

Ten pointers were relatively easily dispatched and onto the 2nd half. Annabelle was the doll who joined it all up, jeopardy was going well until a key slip, somehow confusing Uncle Albert with one of the all time boxing greats brought it all crashing down. Well, we won last week, let's not get greedy.

The music was a good selection, somehow Mariah Carey was mistaken for Whitney and The Hues Corporation for Forrest. Probably not for the first time.

Enjoy leap Saturday!

51 Pound Hound

Very quiet around 8.15, but the usual late rush and suddenly there are 9 teams in the house!

5 fruit and 5 vegetables in the picture round.

I think we missed 2, 4, 6 and 10. Can't remember the actual answers. 

6 right in the current affairs round as well. Poor notes mean that I can only really report that Glasgow has had a spike in new HIV cases. Costa Rica and Hong Kong featured but not sure why.

A difficult start then turned harder with a round on tea. We got the first 4 right including identifying this as a Samovar...

Robson guessed Turkey as the country drinking the most tea 

per capita ahead of Ireland but was largely ignored. Mrs Doyle will be distraught. I don't think any teams guessed that the disgusting sounding concoction of black tea, honey, condensed milk and tapioca is Bubble Milk.

We made a better fist of the this week that year round missing only one, and got all 3 ten pointers after a long process of elimination to get that 10 March is Pisces. Lowish first half score of 80 but probably not as bad as it sounds.

We made the full chain after backsolving to get a description of porridge and that a US dentist invented the first electric chair in the 19th century.

Strong Jeopardy round with 8 near certain. Our best guess for the location of Whipsnade Zoo was Bucks, it is Beds but we didn't stick our necks out as we were clueless re a question concerning Ruta Bega and I can't remember or find via google what it was now. 

19 of 20 in music round, one song title missed.

Not sure if any other teams blew out but a comfortable 11 point margin meant that we had gone one better after 3 second places lately. A total of 34 contestants meant that we had won £51, possibly a new PB?

Maundy Thursday is now only a few weeks away and a return to Borough Market has been mooted. All thoughts and opinions are welcomed.

Hound Goes To Cambridge

Have checked trains and prices as follows:

Hoping this comes out ok but DIY otherwise.

The would seem the most cost efficient way of doing things.

Hence if everyone can tap their way to East Croydon ready to go by 9.31am next week, 31st July that sounds the way to go. We have approx. £135 of Hound funds so that can cover the train fares which I'll buy if everyone confirms. Probably going to be Platform 2 but these things can change. Activities for the day can be decided en route, the forecast looks decent.

I also have a CamCard which offers various discounts on the cultural stuff.

Any questions?

Summer Hound

Such a nice day last Thursday that Graham, Daren and myself took it out into the pub "garden" before the quiz. Well, yard the noise of the air conditioning unit and smell from next door's curry house. But still a mighty fine evening.


We're up to P in the list of celeb pictures and things. Good spot to pick out this geezer.

A considerably younger and with more hair version of Patrick Stewart. Plenty of them evaded us, think maybe we stretched it to about 6.

The story that caught my eye on the current affairs round was the Lewis chesspiece sold for £735,000! A single chess piece! Not much use without the other 31; if only they knew a reproduction set was available on Amazon for £145. Some people will just buy anything.

£735,000 please.

Round 3 was Wimbledon based, fairly standard stuff, think we only failed on the name of the ladies ingles trophy, the Venus rosewater dish. Round 4 was on this week in history and we marked the 91st anniversary of sliced bread first being marketed in Chillicothe Missouri. But what else could it be?

Ten pointers, ah here controversy reigned.

Ok, we didn't know the 2nd event in the decathlon, though thinking it through maybe I should have done as I saw some of the decathlon at the 2012 Olympics. But controversially, what was the sportswear firm set up by Herr Dassler in the 1930s?

https://fortune.com/2013/03/22/the-hatred-and-bitterness-behind-two-of-the-worlds-most-popular-brands/

Quite the story and while I can't remember the exact question wording, I think either of Adidas and Puma would have been correct answers. The given answer was Adidas though, we had Puma.

Onto the old chain letters round this has got decidedly more trixie recently; all good but we lost the thread somewhere around Endive and didn't get it back until Slash. The guitarist that is.

Jeopardy and we had 8 good answers. I figured Ellen de Generes' partner was Portia something but where will the 2022 Winter Olympics be? Japan was probably the best guess but we settled for 8, just as well as Beijing will host.

Well too much to do with the slightly controversial answer and it was third in a tight finish.

Right, I'm away next week and in 2 weeks, The Hound will host so get yourselves all down there. Until then...

4 becomes 3 Hound

No win for a while, early match tension dispelled by a clean sweep on the pictures. All starting with M....

Current Affairs all good too until last 2 Q’s. Muirfield finally accepting women as members and Spinach mooted to join nandrolone and co on the banned substances list for athletics etc.

Good to have Steve on board for the Films round but still let 2 go. Near miss on identity of actor playing Rooster Cogburn in the 2010 remake of True Grit. Jeff Bridges not Josh Brolin who was also in the film. Not sure how I didn’t manage to even consider the following as the country music legend who was the subject of the biopic I Saw The Light. Hank Williams of course.

Tough This Week in History round, we mixed all of the following...

Robert the Bruce/William Wallace

Roy Rogers/Hopalong Cassidy

Jamaica/Republic of Ireland

Martin Luther King/Malcolm the Tenth.

I know what you are thinking. How?

A stinker in the 10 pointers. Who immediately followed Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union in 1953.

Georgy Malenkov for a couple of hours. Ok nine days. Don ‘t think anyone got it.

One better in the Chain Letters round this week, it is becoming more challenging, which is good. We had first and last letters for both misses. Rhinestone is a synthetic diamond substitute, and persimmon is also known as the Sharon Fruit. After an area where it is prevalent in Israel, not an Essex Girl.

Looks good enough to eat doesn’t it.

Intelligence received indicates we are well behind Les Anoraks so Old School performance required in the Jeopardy round and we didn’t disappoint.

Steve Rogers is also known as Captain America in the Marvel world and more surprisingly Mark Spitz’ golden location were enough to stop the enemy and Robson’s recollection of  the following Shakespearean character’s occupation the toughest for us.

Bottom from MSND was a (basket) Weaver. Also took some debate to identify Churchill as QEII’s first PM.

Home and Dry. 19 on music round, not sure what we missed.

See elsewhere for a possible Hound outing to Cambridge, punting and all.

The Four Hounds of the Quiz

A quick blogette before the cricket kicks off, Daren, Graham, Pete and myself taking our positions in the corner ready for action.

Names are up to "O" on the connection for the picture round, this fella proving to be the only sticking point.

Johnny Foreigner type who gets killed off in the first half an hour wasn't going to cut it. Om Puri would have done.

Onto news and apparently similies are banned in Bradford schools which must restrict essay writing somewhat. Also Jimmy Dyson gave /315m to his former school and Scholsey has been found out for betting on football, successfully apparently. Yep, slow news week.


Next round and famous "Browns". Rounds like these always offer the opportunity for quizzing bingo and Errol, Capability and Gordon had us well on the way to a call but this fella proved a stumbling block.

The geezer on the left obvs. Frankly the picture doesn't help and if I didn't know I now. Bryan Brown so no full house for us.

This week is history was Round 4. The hotline from Moscow to Washington proved to be rather unimaginatively named the "Moscow-Washington hotline", otherwise we did ok here. And well played to G force for knowing the dog in trap 1 wears a red jacket. Even if red isn't really him.

Link-ups were going well until we were tripped up and sent off course by a shelled gastropod. Still don't know what the answer was but it cost us 3 questions, maybe.

Jeopardy, as it so often does, started well but in what film does Fred Astaire dance on the ceiling? And what is the largest county in Eire. We had possible answers but swerve territory. Here's Freddie.

Royal Wedding it seems. Glad we didn't go for that.

Well, post the music a tie-break resulted but the Hound weren't in it. Bah! Well played though to King Kong Balls. Right, looks like England are going to have a bowl.

Well below par Hound

Just myself and Robin. Quiz relegated to the Pool Table area due to England-Neth game. It’s on our screen as well but about 45 seconds behind which proves useful whenever it becomes apparent that something has occurred.

10 statues to identify first up. We only missed no. 8 with Robson a lot closer than me. Emmeline Pankhurst not Molly Malone. Other answers available on application.

Below par on current affairs, BA have resumed flying to Pakistan not Egypt, tourist boat crash in Venice not Budapest, Sainsbury not Waitrose acting quicker on plastic packaging for fruit & veg, and a couple of others including who won BGT. Passed me by that one.

Round 3 was fictional dogs, although I’m fairly sure Blue Peter was real. Went well at first but finished weakly failing to get The Perishers as the cartoon strip with a dog called Boot and couldn’t remember Wellard as being Robbie Jackson’s dog in Eastenders. Some controversy over what was the second BP dog, she wanted Shep as the answer but Patch had a lot of support as well. Didn’t affect the final result.

No real probs with the this week in history round even getting Chicago as the US city introducing an elevated railroad in 1892.

From here on in we weren’t really in the hunt starting with 10 points dropped here.....

Colin Powell not Madeline Albright was the US Secretary of State immediately prior to Condaleeza Rice. 2 of 4 teams got it right.

Short break as England flail defensively and a close offside call is given after VAR intervention. Cue the hardest Chain Letters round ever bar none. Pretty much all food and drink based we didn’t get...

The second one is a Mexican dish using corn based dough and wrapped in banana leafs called Tamale. The final one apparently stinks to high heaven in its uncooked form, but gives a similar flavour to using garlic or onion. Siobhan suggested that we get both the words fetid and fetish from this condiment which is also known as Devil’s Dung! We also missed cappuccino due to having the wrong first letter and a lack of understanding of coffee in general.

It would have taken an immaculate Jeopardy round to rescue this one and five questions answered even though correct ain’t immaculate. We might have had an outside chance if we had anything on 

Danny Dyer’s character name in Eastenders but we didn’t. I thought that he was a Mitchell but it was Mick Carter, well avoided. We skirted around the correct answers for the others that we skipped and probably wouldn’t have got them all. 

We only missed Alana Morrisette’s song name in the music round, it was Hand in My Pocket.

Final Scores were Anoraks 120, Hound 125, Lady & Tramp 141, King Kongs Balls 144. Given that Anoraks crashed and burned in the Jeopardy round we definitely flirted with last place. However they did deserve this fate for thinking that Daniel extracted a thorn from a lions paw! 

Wizz Hound

Briefest of blogs this week due to exam marking commitments but to confirm the Hound fund stands at £140.80 after last week's fund. Assuming we're quorate next week there's another £25.50 to fund a couple of rounds after a stunning Hound win. If one question clinched the deal, it was getting Wizz Air being Hungary based not Iceland as put by the Anoraks to complete the Jeopardy. Go Hound!

Winning Hound

Well, a lot to get through this week. The quiz won't take long though as I have no notes and no memory.

Though I do remember this fella turned up in round 1 which was mainly Ds.

Key point though was Hound win, we didn't attempt the jeopardy, settling for 8 but with a gun against our heads we'd have got it so that can't be bad.

Right, onto the Maundy Thursday research that was promised around the A25/Redhill to Guildford trainline. Frankly Friday wasn't the warm sunny day for the cycle ride around the Surrey Hills that I was hoping for. But off I headed regardless. Much of it was new territory for me and the road signs weren't helping.

But I headed off regardless, covered a fair few miles and propose the following:

Kick off with the 11.30 train from Redhill to Shalford. Shalford has 3 pubs all within 0.3m of the station, The Seahorse, The Queen Victoria and The Parrot. Something for everybody. Arrivees from Sutton can intercept at Dorking or go straight there via Guildford.

Other stations with pubs are Chilworth, with the Percy Arms very close and Gomshall with the Compasses and Gomshall Mill both within about 0.2m of the station. Fine places all of them.


Now extending options further, the Number 32 bus follows the route and brings in fine places like Shere and the Drummond at Albury. E.g. from Chilworth.

You'll see they don't run desperately late but have the advantage of depositing us in Dorking to finish rather than the more distant Dorking Deepdene.. More great pubs are further out in the sticks. I tapped the Uber App though when I was out to be greeted with nothing, we ain't in London here. The absolute finest though was one I passed on the bike between Albury and Shere, the William IV. Magnificent.

Something to consider I trust, feedback welcome.

In other news Daren, Graham and myself are chewing over a Hound USA road trip. More to come on this.


Stay frosty.

Vintage Hound

D2 managed to lose the requisite 2 lbs last week so we were 3.

Pictures beginning with E, nowhere to go wrong really.

Only 2 missed in the current affairs round, one about 3 schoolgirls defacing a banknote with the president of Burundi on it, and one about a large ‘donation’ to secure a place at Yale uni.

Heaven or hell round we missed 3. Sean Lock compared ‘TV Heaven, Telly Hell’ on C4, the 3rd Hellraiser film was called ‘Hell on Earth’, and this superhero is called Hellboy.

Full marks on questions about 2008, and thanks to a Lewis Hamilton question D2 bagged the right year. Oh, sorry we missed Usain Bolt setting a 100m world record, we put Maurice Greene.

Hardest ten pointer was nailed, David Bowie and Guy Pearce both played Andy Warhol on screen.

Chain letters no problem except we didn’t know Mrs Doubtfire’s Christian name, Euphegenia!

For the second week in a row we went all in on the Jeopardy, but this time we got it. We weren’t totally sure that eBay uses the slogan buy-it, sell-it, love-it but not many other contenders and it was right. The one that really sealed was identifying ‘Rollercoaster’ as a number one hit for...

 B*witched. Anoraks busted on this one. All bar one in the music round and a win with a score of 174.

A nice bottle of red shared at the end. Maundy Thursday is fast approaching and Robin is the routefinder for a propose A25 crawl ending in Dorking.

Another possible road trip was also raised, to be discussed further.

Pre Cheltenham Hound

Not quite the first quiz for me for a while but I've missed more than I've made recently so great to be back there. Chelsea took the starring role in the pub though so we were all relegated to back round the pool table.

Just Graham and myself so a picture round on film characters was hardly up our alley. Not so tough though and we took a relieved 9, just Charles Xavier, unsurprisingly, escaping us.

Onto current affairs and this got very guessy. So its 2 locks of hair that the British Museum is returning to Ethiopia, Air India who require announcers to hail the Motherland (Jai Hind!) and the new Barbie doll is none of LGBTQ+ but merely Maori. Rather a let down. But we plumped successfully at a few including which sleb is accused of not sending some kids to school.

Rather unconventionally, music would prove to be round 3. Fairly standard fare, we only really had to get out the guessing trousers for which Spice Girl released an album called Schizophonic. Well, this one.

So next up was guess the year. Having got a good handle on it with when the Rubik's Cube was launched, none of the other questions really helped that much, other than maybe nudging us back so we went with a traditionally one year out approach and 1979. Some tougher questions in there, a theme that continued with the ten pointers. It was Eric Bana who played the Hulk, or rather confusingly, his character of Bruce Banner. Pyrosis is heartburn as well which we may have had before, not literally though.


So halfway and behind the 8 ball, would the link-ups round help? Well we linked them up but probably not really, working out a tomato could be a nightshade plant finally joined the dots.

What a useful plant!

So we needed to nail the Jeopardy, well 3 questions vexed us:

- which is the only World Capital that begins with I?

- what reality programme did Mark from Take That win in 2002?

- Whose oppo includes Sandman and Green Goblin?.

Well, it took a world tour for Graham to arrive in Islamabad but the other two were 50/50 at best so we parked it. Bah.

Some more modern music for a change, Maroon 5, Rita Ora, which probably helped us as much as everyone else and a Hound 2nd resulted, fair play to the team with Pete's brother in law for bagging the jeopardy.

Ok, next week, it all happens.

4 Days of Cheltenham!
No pub quiz! But apparently a really good Irish Band instead
Mansfield away at Crawley!

Not sure I can wait that long.

No Snow Hound

First blog for a while, some quizzes haven’t enjoyed big attendances recently. Hound has had it’s fair share of wins but first place has been spread around.

If you can’t get this week’s pictures then it really is time to give up.

Toxic smog in Bangkok, England to be first country to eliminate HIV by 2030, and staffies are still the UKs favourite dog. Just some of the things that we didn’t know this week. We did know that a kiwi singer has had a tattoo of Harry Styles on her face though!

Rd 3 was an uninspiring multiple choice round. 8 scored.

Guess the Year was 1990. We should have got it but went 1 early. Got all of the 9 q’s correct including prison riots in Strangeways and smoking ban on US cross country.

10 pointers and a hint of controversy but the question masters decision is final. We thought that the following logo had two diamonds, but it was of course Umbro.

Great work by D2 for the other two, Dorothy first meets the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, and Prince Andrew dated the actress Koo Stark.

Chain letters aced. Good get for Steve, a hummingbirds heart can beat up to 1000 times a minute.

Onto the Jeopardy round unaware that we had dropped ten for Umbro. The following two caused a lot of problems for all except Lady & the Tramp.

We thought West Ham or Palace for Sam Allardyce’s team immediately before becoming England manager. It was Sunderland. We had anything between 14 and 19 for the number of men on a dead mans chest. We did well to swerve these two with Snakes being good enough for herpetology though it is more correctly all amphibians and reptiles. 

Missed Robson for Taylor Daynes Tell It to my Heart in the music round but did ok. Lady & the Tramp won with us third behind Anoraks.

Steve got some good ones and I just can’t give Daren enough credit for his performance.

G-Force

Hound Of The Year

Different format this week, no current affairs, no jeopardy, link-ups or connections. Just a round of sleb 2018 deaths, 50 questions about the events of 2018 and some music. Would this play to our strengths or would the distraction of Man City v Liverpool be too much?

Think we got 11/12 on the deaths, only the actress who played Alice in the Vicar Of Dibley escaping us. Then working through the year, mainly with some cunningly recycled questions from months gone by.

So these were the mascots but where were the Olympics? And which was that retailer who announced it would be axing 100 stores by 2022. And what was Jurassic Park V called? And who on earth remembers what film won the Best Picture

These questions and many, many more. All the while a long overdue successful in play bet of 2-1 to Man City was starting to unfold. Answers - Emma Chambers, PyongChang, M&S, Fallen Kingdom and the Shape of Water. Has anyone actually watched that by the way.

Music scanned the spectrum from Tho Who to Lady Gaga and don't you know? Hound Win? Only 4 teams so not life-changing winnings but hopefully a beer to kick off next week.

Throw A Blanket Over Them Hound

Graham and myself this week, first up faced up with 10 pictures of Nicks. Very seasonal and we managed nine of them. I'd like to say this was a sign of things to come but it really wasn't.

Current Affairs, well there only seems to be one subject in the news and obviously we weren't covering that so it was tricky. But Kenya is replacing the images of presidents on coins with the likes of lions, elephants, giraffes etc. Maybe the animals could do their jobs as well. And Goodyear are paying off ex employers in Venezuela with tyres and these little fellas are the fastest moving animals around.

The next round was "bells". So we had the likes of Portobello Road, venue of Mr Gruber's shop, The Bell Jar and Tubular Bells. Nice.


Onto what year, so Rage Against The Machine were number one at Christmas and Giggsy was SPOTY. So back in the days when someone gave a damn. But apparently the Icelandic banking system imploded after the credit crunch, not before and we were unsuccessfully looking for 2009.


Ten pointer and I'd say knowing the nickname of Warren Weber in Happy Days was specialist knowledge. Even with google it took a while to find it. But we bagged the other two to maybe give ourselves a puncher's chance later on.


Or that's what we thought. Estee Lauder's first fragrance anyone? Or the Italian herb that has notes of celery and parsley? Youth-Dew and help me out here because, other than it ending in "E", I really don't know. So we kind of lost the trail and frankly didn't really get it back.


Onto jeopardy and it didn't really improve. So lets have a picture.

That, is apparently a Stinking Bishop.

We did a lot better on music but surely too little too late. But, rather than being the first team read out, we were the 2nd last, only two points behind LATT, with an almost Theo-like spread of 6 points between all of the teams. Naturally with so many wrong answers we probably did leave a few out there, but good to get back into the quizzing saddle for me after a three week break.


Last one of the year next week. Maybe an Inbetweener though? I'll toss that one out.

Which one are you?

Who is she? Hound.

Just me and D2 this week. Touch and go whether or not there would be a quiz for a while. 4th team only arrived circa 8.30.

We made a poor fist of these pictures, all actresses.

To be fair, Daren suggested that the first one was Viven Leigh but I wasn’t having it. Halle Berry still doesn’t look like Halle Berry to me.

Current Affairs a bit better, D2 knew about a Dutch King piloting a charter flight and that Leigh-on-Sea is the happiest place in England. Cue joke about my in-laws who live there.

Geography in song lyrics next. Saw you last night in Glasgow, Standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona, Caught between the moon and New York City, that sort of thing. A pattern was developing here with D2 getting more right than me. Frankly baffling Tom Petty lyric included, where the hell is Reseda anyway? Not an easy round.

Year was 1974. This woman was famously kidnapped...

Patty Hearst, an heiress to something or other. We should have got it from Bagpuss to be fair, but went 1972. 

Managed the ten pointers with Harry Redknapp being the last Englishman to manage an FA Cup winning team, answered correctly by guess who? D2 again.

2 errors in the chain letters round. This lot are called the Na’vi..

... and Mansell not Piquet won the F1 title in 1992.

Unfortunately 2 errors, in the Jeopardy round as well, ending our chances of first place. 

We mixed this fellas boxing record up with that of Henry Cooper...

Brian London. Also confused gelatin and pectin.

King Kong Balls first again, well ahead of us.

Big shout for the teachers, ‘Consistently Last’ dubbed ‘Optimistically First’ for the day, managed 3rd place ahead of LATT.

G-Force.

Beer Sloshed Hound

Well for once I have a valid excuse for a blog light on content. No need to rely on "left my notes on the bus" or "memory failed yet again", this time around half way through notes, pictures, quiz answers, trousers got a good dousing and were rendered virtually useless, slight exaggeration on the trousers there.

Four contenders, Daren, Kevin, Graham and myself, and we faced by a bunch, of mainly A list actors. That would certainly apply to the likes of Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Keanu Reaves. But if number 7 has a claim to fame other than looking a bit like Gary Barlow, none of us knew about it. The geezer with the Phil Oakey haircut escaped us as well.

Onto current affairs and such newsworthy items as a portrait of Charles Dickens has surfaced in South Africa. Apparently the owners have great expectations for the auction price.


Ok, lets move onto Round 3 and could it be magic? Actually it could with a magically themed round which managed to avoid all of the Harry Potter Universe. So we had the Magic Flute, Magic Johnson, the Magical Mystery Tour and the Magic Roundabout.


Name the year took us back a bit further than recently and events such as the closing of US relations with Cuba, Alcatraz ceasing to be in use and the 35th academy awards stretched all our memories. The Great Train Robbery was the event to anchor it all in 1963 though.


Ten pointers and well done on G Force for bagging the Globe theatre resurfaced on the South Bank in 1997 after a 353 year absence and we were in the mix. Ok the link-up notes did got soaked so onto jeopardy and fairly smooth sailing for most of the way until our progress was hijacked by the er hijacking of this vessel.

Prudence prevailed and nine answers were submitted. Can't remember much of the music but I'm sure there was some Olly Murs in there and the first telephone directory had 50 names in it, well done Kevster. Curiously no numbers though, it merely listed the people and businesses who had telephones. Right. Ok the important thing, Hound win!

And plans for the Christmas Hound do, something like this.

Definitely gets me out of my comfort zone. One that would get me back into it was Kevster's suggestion of an A25 crawl, maybe out to Shalford and back by bus, train or taxi or walk to Dorking. All options possible.


I'm away for the next two weeks but have every confidence in our youth system to pick things up while I'm off.

Hound and The Farmer

Well there wasn't a quiz at the PA this week. 3 fairly scrawny looking teams weren't enough, although it would have left the pub looking mighty quiet afterwards. So a quick think and not wanting to be denied a Thursday quiz, it was off to the Farmers.

Well, we missed the first round but joined for music and round 2. Now from memory, Theo used to like his girl bands, Pussycat Dolls, Girls Aloud and the like. You know what, none of those. In fact very similar fare to the PA really, not a great deal before around 1986, which is the way we seem to like it. KC and the Sunshine Band featured a lot.

Anyway, we must have done fantastically well, because you know what. we'd caught up after the music and were just around 1 point behind the leaders! Next up was the general assorted mixed bag that comprises round 3, nothing changes here folks.


Notes are pretty shabby here but who founded the Royal Navy? Well I'd always thought it was around Henry VIII kind of time but Alfred The Great apparently. Whereas in the PA there's a disproportionate reliance on the answers to the ten pointers and the Jeopardy, here none of the answers really matter so you just shrug and move on. So which John was in The Muppet Caper?

Nope, can't see him in there. Cleese apparently, think we went Denver. And when was New Year's Day, in 1752 and earlier? 25th March apparently, 1st January was the Feast of the Circumcision. Ouch!


The things you learn eh? And this film featured somewhere.

Okay, we didn't win, but we didn't expect to and we did miss the first thirty questions. Must be doing something right though, ten teams I think.


Laters.