In the week that a jogger allegedly pushed someone into a bus lane and a bus crashed into a shop in Clapham it was business as usual on Thursday night with regards to quizzing.
Pre match discussions centred on invasive species (botanical) and the social experiment that is Eden.
Teams were thin on the ground again, to the point that there was some doubt about whether the quiz would actually happen. The Landlord gave the a-ok on the basis that he would join the 'fluid' Busters team.
In another twist, the new team of youngsters unveiled their secret weapon, someone who had appeared on TV's 'The Chase'. Graham didn't recognise him and i'm not entirely sure that appearing on The Chase qualifies someone as a 'weapon'. Oh, hang on, I think I get the joke now.
If it so pleases you, the first round was pictures of drug cheats or 'athletes' as some call them. Dispatched with aplomb.
The Current affairs round required us to state the number of infected Dutch eggs in the U.K. to within 100,000. Our answer of 700,000 was almost eggsactly right.
Next up was an X,Y,Z round; x-rays, zed bed, Zaire and so on and so forth. No problems here
Connections round; Bastille, pancake, Robin etcetera allowed us to back fill the 9th and 35th (?) fences as being Valentines and not Bechers Brook
So, going into the 10 pointers we were in fine fettle with plenty left in the tank. Unfortunately at this point things started to unravel. We were unable to identify the food type that Provolone belongs to and this was a sign of things to come.
The second half saw us grappling with the last 2 connections. Sabayon is the French version of Zagblione and I'm not sure to this day what a catholic minister, beginning with'N' and ending in 'O'is called.
Given that the Busters team contained Pete the chef and at least 2 Irish Catholics, we could sense which way the wind was blowing.
Struggled through the jeopardy round (what did an Irish m.p. Blame for the state of the roads in Kerry? Faeries! )
Music round was fine as usual but we knew we were too far behind and I was surprised that we actually managed a creditable second.
Unsurprisingly, the Landlord's 'Busters' team won having aced the jeopardy round. One way of keeping the cost of the quiz down I guess.
Kevster recommended that we all watch Icarus although Robson felt he knew the story arc already.
Saturday, 12 August 2017
Saturday, 5 August 2017
97% Hound
So this was is. The five top sportspeople of our generation, i.e. born after Graham, who transcended their sport to become global icons. So
#1 - Usain Bolt
#2 - Roger Federer
Honourable mentions, Mike Tyson, Tiger Woods and Michael Schumacher
Look, there's always going to be one or two we're not happy with but that's democracy for you. Not a bad representation of our generation all in all. Where are all the women though? Where are the "alternatively abled" athletes? Where indeed.
So, the quiz proper and we kicked off with a Dr Who themed round, plus assistants. Steve set off on a 70 yard run with this one before crossing for a marvellous finish from Daren with Karen Gillan.
Really don't know her at all but seems a charming sort.
Now, you know what, my notes get fairly sketchy from here but I can confirm:
- It was peanut butter used by inmates of an Alabama Jail to help them escape. Does anyone, outside of Alabama, still eat peanut butter? Let's just take the two least healthy foods we can find and mix them together shall we?
- Sarah Harding is the ex Girls Aloud member heading into the Celebrity Big Brother House. In typical ladette pose:
- A filibeg is indeed a kilt
- Euromillions numbers go up to 50 - Not hard to see our blind spots, kilts and lotteries.
- There was a nice Only Connect style round where we had to get the next in the sequences, Avon, Beds, Berks, Bucks..... or 18,4,13,6 .... Which reminds me of something.
- 99 Red Balloons and Kung Fu have something to do with ice creams/lollies
And that's about as far as my notes take me. Hopefully you've all received an invite from Pete by now and Daren was reviewing his house-warming date. Ok, he didn't make the top 5 but in honour of his storming win last night, and remembering the evening I was only 3 minutes behind him in a race in Nonsuch Park, I give you Sir Mo.
#1 - Usain Bolt
#2 - Roger Federer
Honourable mentions, Mike Tyson, Tiger Woods and Michael Schumacher
Look, there's always going to be one or two we're not happy with but that's democracy for you. Not a bad representation of our generation all in all. Where are all the women though? Where are the "alternatively abled" athletes? Where indeed.
So, the quiz proper and we kicked off with a Dr Who themed round, plus assistants. Steve set off on a 70 yard run with this one before crossing for a marvellous finish from Daren with Karen Gillan.
Really don't know her at all but seems a charming sort.
Now, you know what, my notes get fairly sketchy from here but I can confirm:
- It was peanut butter used by inmates of an Alabama Jail to help them escape. Does anyone, outside of Alabama, still eat peanut butter? Let's just take the two least healthy foods we can find and mix them together shall we?
- Sarah Harding is the ex Girls Aloud member heading into the Celebrity Big Brother House. In typical ladette pose:
- A filibeg is indeed a kilt
- Euromillions numbers go up to 50 - Not hard to see our blind spots, kilts and lotteries.
- There was a nice Only Connect style round where we had to get the next in the sequences, Avon, Beds, Berks, Bucks..... or 18,4,13,6 .... Which reminds me of something.
- 99 Red Balloons and Kung Fu have something to do with ice creams/lollies
And that's about as far as my notes take me. Hopefully you've all received an invite from Pete by now and Daren was reviewing his house-warming date. Ok, he didn't make the top 5 but in honour of his storming win last night, and remembering the evening I was only 3 minutes behind him in a race in Nonsuch Park, I give you Sir Mo.
Thursday, 3 August 2017
Low-Key Hound
Whilst inebriation has fairly been blamed for forgetfulness and missing bear traps in the past, sobriety seems to give a low-key feel to the whole thing. Surely a new record low for average per capita alcohol consumption and ultimately a low-key defeat.
TV detectives in the pics, a good guess at Rebus, only Barnaby from Morse missed and may even have got 1 point for that.
Current affairs and possibly one of the all-time greatest stabs in the dark identifying that 2500 products have fallen in size according to the ONS over a 5 year period. Almost spooky. Didn't know that the aussies are recalling loads of cars, or that a Japanese fella's wife destroyed his valuable collection of violins. Pop star behaving badly was Justin Bieber again, not quite such a difficult guess.
Enjoyable history round nearly aced, WW1 footy match was xmas 1914 not 1915. Connections was people who have released albums. Richard Harris was a red flag spotted by Robson and the likes of Telly Savalas and Clint Eastwood quickly confirm.
For the first ten pointer we were nowhere near, didn't even know that Roger Rabbit was a Disney film, let alone recognise any of the 3 characters given. Pretty sure that other teams all got it. So at the back of the pack at this point. Eddie Valiant, Judge Doom and Dolores if you are interested.
Our chain broke for the last 2 chain letter questions, Robins not Ravens covered the bodies in Babe in the Woods, and Sabu played Mowgli in a forties film version of the Jungle Book.
We were never going to go big on the Jeopardy round, not knowing what animal shits expensive arabica coffee beans (elephant) nor Bob the Builders second number one hit (Mambo no 5). We also left out 3 more, 2 of which we did guess correctly, but were obviously blissfully unaware at this point that all other teams had bombed out, nil points. That's our ten points back.
Twenty of twenty in the music, matched by winners by 2 points 'Call Us What You Like'. Since marrying the youngsters are two for two looking for a hat-trick, with their new special guest star someone's mum. 3 other teams trailing a fair distance behind.
Only two of us, so plentyof nice sarnies, especially the egg ones.
G-Force
TV detectives in the pics, a good guess at Rebus, only Barnaby from Morse missed and may even have got 1 point for that.
Current affairs and possibly one of the all-time greatest stabs in the dark identifying that 2500 products have fallen in size according to the ONS over a 5 year period. Almost spooky. Didn't know that the aussies are recalling loads of cars, or that a Japanese fella's wife destroyed his valuable collection of violins. Pop star behaving badly was Justin Bieber again, not quite such a difficult guess.
Enjoyable history round nearly aced, WW1 footy match was xmas 1914 not 1915. Connections was people who have released albums. Richard Harris was a red flag spotted by Robson and the likes of Telly Savalas and Clint Eastwood quickly confirm.
For the first ten pointer we were nowhere near, didn't even know that Roger Rabbit was a Disney film, let alone recognise any of the 3 characters given. Pretty sure that other teams all got it. So at the back of the pack at this point. Eddie Valiant, Judge Doom and Dolores if you are interested.
Our chain broke for the last 2 chain letter questions, Robins not Ravens covered the bodies in Babe in the Woods, and Sabu played Mowgli in a forties film version of the Jungle Book.
We were never going to go big on the Jeopardy round, not knowing what animal shits expensive arabica coffee beans (elephant) nor Bob the Builders second number one hit (Mambo no 5). We also left out 3 more, 2 of which we did guess correctly, but were obviously blissfully unaware at this point that all other teams had bombed out, nil points. That's our ten points back.
Twenty of twenty in the music, matched by winners by 2 points 'Call Us What You Like'. Since marrying the youngsters are two for two looking for a hat-trick, with their new special guest star someone's mum. 3 other teams trailing a fair distance behind.
Only two of us, so plentyof nice sarnies, especially the egg ones.
G-Force
Friday, 21 July 2017
The Only Way Is Hound
Again, a pleasure to report that the peloton was back up to full strength. Steve stormed in first to claim the yellow jersey, I was second while Kevster claimed the four seconds for third. A weary Daren followed in 4th while Graham trailed in some time later to take the lanterne rouge. However we all liked his top and wondered where he got it.
Let's have a stats update.
Still seems to be about 70% French with maybe 20% Russian engagement. No idea why that should be and probably never will. By way of posts:
Looks like "Downward Facing Hound" and "Radio Hound" battling for top spot at present. Will one of them make it to the thousand?
So the quiz started with some strange looking characters. But we seemed to have a full sheet of answers for which I claim absolutely no credit.
Current Affairs at least made some sort of sense. That was until news emerged that a woman in Taiwan had been granted a divorce on grounds of her hubby ignoring her texts. Also it was John Humphreys who have Jo Konta a hard time about her nationality. Apparently for his money you could get four Sophie Raworths. No contest.
Round 3 was art and lit. Don't think we had any problems here, Oberon was King of the Fairies and Phileas Fogg did live at 7 Savile Row.
Connections took a bit more getting our heads round. Was Murray Walker really still commenting two years and its always tough to get William Hague and IDS in the right order. Order emerged and they were all Sandhurst graduates including oddly Katie Hopkins who passed out when she passed out, as it were.
Ten pointers were similarly dispatched with Bam Bam clinching the deal as a Flintstones youngster.
Bam Bam. In his younger days.
Link-ups duly linked up and on to jeopardy. What the axilla was foxed us to start with and what product is durable, reliable and exciting? Missed this one as I was at the bar but wouldn't have been contributing. Well, Duracell it wasn't and Durex it was. Reminded me on the run on the London Rubber Company in the mid-eighties, a few of us carried the wave of their share price rise for a time. Crazy days those university years.
Well, that put paid to it. We were also required to identify the lunula:
Did we know but not put it? Well it was playing to the strength of anyone with a bit of medical knowledge which for sure wasn't us, LATT duly prevailed, nailing the jeopardy and storming clear. To reiterate, September timetable:
10.9 - Fontwell
16.9 - Daren's
23.9 - Pete's big 50
Quiz at the Wattenden sometime but leave that to Daren to resolve the Wednesday/Sunday conundrum, or I might.
До свидания
Let's have a stats update.
Still seems to be about 70% French with maybe 20% Russian engagement. No idea why that should be and probably never will. By way of posts:
Looks like "Downward Facing Hound" and "Radio Hound" battling for top spot at present. Will one of them make it to the thousand?
So the quiz started with some strange looking characters. But we seemed to have a full sheet of answers for which I claim absolutely no credit.
Current Affairs at least made some sort of sense. That was until news emerged that a woman in Taiwan had been granted a divorce on grounds of her hubby ignoring her texts. Also it was John Humphreys who have Jo Konta a hard time about her nationality. Apparently for his money you could get four Sophie Raworths. No contest.
Round 3 was art and lit. Don't think we had any problems here, Oberon was King of the Fairies and Phileas Fogg did live at 7 Savile Row.
Connections took a bit more getting our heads round. Was Murray Walker really still commenting two years and its always tough to get William Hague and IDS in the right order. Order emerged and they were all Sandhurst graduates including oddly Katie Hopkins who passed out when she passed out, as it were.
Ten pointers were similarly dispatched with Bam Bam clinching the deal as a Flintstones youngster.
Bam Bam. In his younger days.
Link-ups duly linked up and on to jeopardy. What the axilla was foxed us to start with and what product is durable, reliable and exciting? Missed this one as I was at the bar but wouldn't have been contributing. Well, Duracell it wasn't and Durex it was. Reminded me on the run on the London Rubber Company in the mid-eighties, a few of us carried the wave of their share price rise for a time. Crazy days those university years.
Well, that put paid to it. We were also required to identify the lunula:
Did we know but not put it? Well it was playing to the strength of anyone with a bit of medical knowledge which for sure wasn't us, LATT duly prevailed, nailing the jeopardy and storming clear. To reiterate, September timetable:
10.9 - Fontwell
16.9 - Daren's
23.9 - Pete's big 50
Quiz at the Wattenden sometime but leave that to Daren to resolve the Wednesday/Sunday conundrum, or I might.
До свидания
Friday, 14 July 2017
A Feast For Hounds
R, D & G present, late call-off by S stuck in the office. Felt like we were all at sea on the picture round this week. Celebrity couples kissing. However, some inspired guesswork and others struggling as well may have meant not too much damage done.
Current Affairs this week, q about political correctness by London Underground seemed to slip through our hands, but on reflection I think S marked us right anyway. Arizona has run out of cannabis soon after legalising it, and one other eluded us.
Round 3 is vegetables, D quickly making this round his own. Mushrooms can grow in the dark (not really veg we thought), and S's recipe for gumbo differs from D's. We went for celery as the principal veg, answer given was okra. Apparently the Cajun holy trinity of veg is onion, celery and green bell pepper. Okra looks to be further down in the recipes I looked at. Cavolo Nero and Daikon were correctly identified as cabbage and radish respectively.
R got the connection straight away, units of measurement starting with the League of Nations. Good knitting knowledge from D. Otherwise fairly easy.
I only knew 1 of the 10 pointers initially though once D said Sea Parrot was another name for the puffin I knew that I had heard this more than once previously. D on fire by now completed the (well-known?) saying "Enough is as good as a ........ Feast".
Chain letters round was geography heavy as usual, but also included the James Bolam sitcom "Only When I Laugh".
Mood in the team is to go for the jeapordy round if at all possible, with the Anoraks doing similarly. Q2 turns out to be the key, with Anoraks not knowing that the Manhattan cop on a horse played by Dennis Weaver was McCloud. Not to say the rest was by any means easy, an educated guess that David Ivan Davies was the real name of Ivor Novello, and a tortuous process of elimination to confirm that Podgorica is the capital of Montenegro.
Music round was aced, R identifying a Lionel Richie song the best get.
We've scored a perfect second half before, but this time the run started with the connections round, 130 out of 130 thereafter. No wonder then that our winning margin was sizeable, although McCloud would have made it very close with The Anoraks, who invented a TV detective called Hooper.
Advance warning for September, day out planned to Fontwell on Sun 10, P is 50 later in the month so could double as beano for him. Open house at D's on Sat 16 for those not going to Millwall/Leeds that day. Holding out for an early kick-off on police orders.
G-Force
Current Affairs this week, q about political correctness by London Underground seemed to slip through our hands, but on reflection I think S marked us right anyway. Arizona has run out of cannabis soon after legalising it, and one other eluded us.
Round 3 is vegetables, D quickly making this round his own. Mushrooms can grow in the dark (not really veg we thought), and S's recipe for gumbo differs from D's. We went for celery as the principal veg, answer given was okra. Apparently the Cajun holy trinity of veg is onion, celery and green bell pepper. Okra looks to be further down in the recipes I looked at. Cavolo Nero and Daikon were correctly identified as cabbage and radish respectively.
R got the connection straight away, units of measurement starting with the League of Nations. Good knitting knowledge from D. Otherwise fairly easy.
I only knew 1 of the 10 pointers initially though once D said Sea Parrot was another name for the puffin I knew that I had heard this more than once previously. D on fire by now completed the (well-known?) saying "Enough is as good as a ........ Feast".
Chain letters round was geography heavy as usual, but also included the James Bolam sitcom "Only When I Laugh".
Mood in the team is to go for the jeapordy round if at all possible, with the Anoraks doing similarly. Q2 turns out to be the key, with Anoraks not knowing that the Manhattan cop on a horse played by Dennis Weaver was McCloud. Not to say the rest was by any means easy, an educated guess that David Ivan Davies was the real name of Ivor Novello, and a tortuous process of elimination to confirm that Podgorica is the capital of Montenegro.
Music round was aced, R identifying a Lionel Richie song the best get.
We've scored a perfect second half before, but this time the run started with the connections round, 130 out of 130 thereafter. No wonder then that our winning margin was sizeable, although McCloud would have made it very close with The Anoraks, who invented a TV detective called Hooper.
Advance warning for September, day out planned to Fontwell on Sun 10, P is 50 later in the month so could double as beano for him. Open house at D's on Sat 16 for those not going to Millwall/Leeds that day. Holding out for an early kick-off on police orders.
G-Force
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