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.