Daren in Mexico, Robson bound for South Africa, looking forward to some good blog hitting statistics. A few games of macala to settle in and then an unfamiliar quiz mistress this week, with a pretty tough (we thought) set of questions.
The picture round was a mixture of Bond villains and Bond girls. Could have been worse had Robson not seen the new one after checking out yucca plants at IKEA, a couple were from that. The character names were requested which proved tough for e.g. Jane Seymour's character in Live and Let Die and a few others. Quite a bit of groaning from all and just the film would do in the end.
IKEA came up again in the current affairs round, I am typing this up well after the end and have little recall of what was actually asked, but other answers included Japan, One Direction and Putin.
Round 3 was Science & Nature. The highlight of this round undoubtedly being what part of the body can be treated using a 'cockup splint'. It turned out to be wrist. Had this been the connections round, the answer would definitely have been merchant banking with other entendres for doing it by hand as well. Limnologists study lakes, arches, loops, whorls & composites were correctly identified by Kevster as fingerprints but I had an idea she ultimately gave a different answer? Other questions about chromosones, catgut, aluminium and helium.
The connections round concerned killers, Chrstie, Moat, Bird, Haig, Nilsson, Jack et al.
We missed the middle ten pointer which was "How many of the Magnificent 7 were alive at the end of the film", I think it turned out to be 4. We got 1936 as the year of three kings, and Utopia as Thomas More's island paradise.
The "W" round managed to wind me up. We got (Bruce) Willis after establishing that the surname starting with W was sufficient. We hen failed to get the Hitchcock film starting with W which was "Rear Window" I kid you not.
We were nowhere near getting the Jeopardy round maximum, too many where we didn't have a clue.
A respectable effort at the songs, not much was missed, but third place only with Lady & The Tramp convincingly out front.
Could do better......
G-Force
Monday, 30 November 2015
Friday, 13 November 2015
Poetic Hound
This report fits neatly into 3 chronological sections:
Part 1 7.00 - 8.30
Kevster and Daren stared at each other (their words). Graham and myself were delayed meeting up with some former L&G colleagues, one now Hong Kong based.
Part 2 8.30 - 10.30
The meat of the quiz if you will. First up:
Graham assured us he was top ten in the world on Famous Duos so this would be a breeze. Not many gaps as you see and Daren added 3- Rogers & Hammerstein.
Current affairs, which country in Africa has been declared Ebola free. We circled around W Africa, hankerchieves over faces before settling around Guinea, it was Liberia. Apparently additionally Kieron Dyer is to be on IACGMOOH. Paddy Power soon to open a book on how long he lasts until he breaks a leg.
Round 3 - Bond. The one featuring Halle Berry in a bikini vexed us, Die Another Day. What though, other than clothes/jewellery was Sean Connery never seen without as Bond? A cigarette, his Walther PPK? Cue collective head scratching.
Round 4 - Connections. The fall guy to Nayim's chip and the actor who played Dr Richard Burke in Friends sealed it for Graham. Question spotting ensued, Lord Kitchener, Merv Hughes and Jimmy Edwards would surely feature. No but the porn star with most "acting" credits did. We had Jeremy but Jeremy who? At this point Kevster found the need to relieve himself and dashed back excitedly with the solution. Ron Jeremy! What had provided the clue? We'll never know but lots of witty banter ensued.
Ten pointers - really quite easy.
Round 5 - the V round - Again our question spotting was a bit hopeless failing to predict Voldemort, Viagra and Venga Boys. We even talked ourselves out of Vince Vaughan, surely a double shot.
Round 6 - Jeopardy and question 1 was a teaser, the name of sharks' young. I'd have thought eggs but Daren was confident with pups and we cracked on. None of the others were quite as testy, the dartboard question helped by there being one in the pub. Should we go for it? We are Hound! It's what we do.
Music- one blank but even got the Ed Sheeran question. For chocolates, how many gas streetlights in London are there? Apparently, 1500, we were about 1500 out.
10.30 onwards
The Limerick
There once was a quiz team called Hound
Whose answers were unfailingly sound
No matter how pissed
There were no questions missed
And so off they walked with fifty pound
Credit Kevster for most of it, improvements by comment please, can't get the last line right.
Results, Hound 165, the rest nowhere, 107 being second.
Oh, his toupee was the Sean Connery answer.
Part 1 7.00 - 8.30
Kevster and Daren stared at each other (their words). Graham and myself were delayed meeting up with some former L&G colleagues, one now Hong Kong based.
Part 2 8.30 - 10.30
The meat of the quiz if you will. First up:
Graham assured us he was top ten in the world on Famous Duos so this would be a breeze. Not many gaps as you see and Daren added 3- Rogers & Hammerstein.
Current affairs, which country in Africa has been declared Ebola free. We circled around W Africa, hankerchieves over faces before settling around Guinea, it was Liberia. Apparently additionally Kieron Dyer is to be on IACGMOOH. Paddy Power soon to open a book on how long he lasts until he breaks a leg.
Round 3 - Bond. The one featuring Halle Berry in a bikini vexed us, Die Another Day. What though, other than clothes/jewellery was Sean Connery never seen without as Bond? A cigarette, his Walther PPK? Cue collective head scratching.
Round 4 - Connections. The fall guy to Nayim's chip and the actor who played Dr Richard Burke in Friends sealed it for Graham. Question spotting ensued, Lord Kitchener, Merv Hughes and Jimmy Edwards would surely feature. No but the porn star with most "acting" credits did. We had Jeremy but Jeremy who? At this point Kevster found the need to relieve himself and dashed back excitedly with the solution. Ron Jeremy! What had provided the clue? We'll never know but lots of witty banter ensued.
Ten pointers - really quite easy.
Round 5 - the V round - Again our question spotting was a bit hopeless failing to predict Voldemort, Viagra and Venga Boys. We even talked ourselves out of Vince Vaughan, surely a double shot.
Round 6 - Jeopardy and question 1 was a teaser, the name of sharks' young. I'd have thought eggs but Daren was confident with pups and we cracked on. None of the others were quite as testy, the dartboard question helped by there being one in the pub. Should we go for it? We are Hound! It's what we do.
Music- one blank but even got the Ed Sheeran question. For chocolates, how many gas streetlights in London are there? Apparently, 1500, we were about 1500 out.
10.30 onwards
The Limerick
There once was a quiz team called Hound
Whose answers were unfailingly sound
No matter how pissed
There were no questions missed
And so off they walked with fifty pound
Credit Kevster for most of it, improvements by comment please, can't get the last line right.
Results, Hound 165, the rest nowhere, 107 being second.
Oh, his toupee was the Sean Connery answer.
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Hound Punts Update 02
Update on our individual prediction punts, using the current cash-out value as the means of gauging progress...
Mr Green's - current cash out value, £11.71
D2's - current cash out value, £9.88
Mine - current cash out value, £9.93
Robson's - current cash out value, £0.00 - the Swedish season has finished and IFK Goteborg finished second
G-Force's - current cash out value, £10.45
Mr Green's - current cash out value, £11.71
D2's - current cash out value, £9.88
Mine - current cash out value, £9.93
Robson's - current cash out value, £0.00 - the Swedish season has finished and IFK Goteborg finished second
G-Force's - current cash out value, £10.45
A Tale Of Two Quizzes...
It was the best of quizzes, it was the worst of quizzes, it was a quiz of wisdom, it was a quiz of foolishness...
Thus wrote Charles Dickens - paraphrased to hell and back maybe but bear with...
Quiz The First
Applegarth, Braithwaite near Keswick
28th October 2015
Simply getting the teams picked had been a mission in itself - four teams of three, must be mixed gender, can't partner anyone you're married to nor can you partner anyone you're a parent to or a child of. The twelve contestants chewed it over for a while before eventually the youngest amongst us grabbed a pen and some paper and worked out all the options and combinations - from which the team captains then randomly selected their players.
Twelve family members had gathered to celebrate the 70th birthday of the thirteenth attendee and, given that most of us present had on many occasions either joined or crossed swords in quiz battle, I had offered to compere a quiz for everybody. And now finally, 72 hours, a couple of long walks, several large meals and one visit to the local vets later, the teams were identified, gathered and ready. Quiz on...
Fortunately our location's extremely flakey wireless broadband network had one of its better hours during the opening round of the quiz - 'Feel Free To Use Your Phone' - featuring a range of questions unanswerable without the help of the internet even by a team of Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Brian Cox, Magnus Magnusson and that camp, bitchy, fella from The Eggheads. (eg - what is the post code of the London Theatre shares its name with the chemical element that boils at 2963 degrees centigrade? *)
Over the course of the day nine more rounds followed covering a range of topics from identifying dog breeds from various puppies through to guessing the mileage between varying combinations of attendee's post-codes with more traditional music and 'connections' rounds thrown in.
Suffice to say there were breaks for food, even more breaks for drinks and eventually a winner was declared around 0130h on Thursday morning. Congratulations to Jane (Hamster), Ashleigh (Hound) and Mark (brother-in-law of no previously fixed team affiliation) who won by a handful of points with only one point covering the other three teams.
Quiz The Second
Purley Arms, Croydon
5th November 2015
Pre-quiz chat included our nominations for possible answers to this week's anticipated 'U' category - we came up with, Ultravox, Uncle Remus, Ultraviolet, Uncle Bulgaria, Umbilical cord, Ursula Andress, Uzbekistan and Ullysses.
Mention of James Joyce's great work led to my making a statement -"I was recently given a copy of Ulysses but it's sheer size has put me off - thickest book I've ever had" - which I can now back up with evidence which I think you'll agree conclusively proves my claim...
Round 2 - Current Affairs - footballers have bad teeth, Cameron 'wore' a digital poppy, Nigella Lawson has a recipe for avocado on toast and Tom Waits feels ripped off by Adele's new single. Apparently. We usually get seven out of ten here - with hindsight the writing was on the wall early on. 6/10
Round 3 - November 5th - other than knowing Guy Fawkes actual name (Tom Guido apparently) and who starred in Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Hanks & Bruce Willis) we had reasonable treason/firework/gunpowder/bonfire knowledge. 8/10
Round 4 - Connections - Gordon Brown, Wayne Rooney, Katie Price, Mario Balotelli, Jonathan Ross, Tony Blair, Sepp Blatter, James Hewitt and Lance Armstrong all share what in common... *** 9/10
Round 5 - 3 x 10 pointers - breezed them 30/30
Round 6 - 'U's - Umbro, Unibomber, Ugg Boots, Ulysses, Ugly Betty, Urals, Usher, Uriah Heap, Under Milk Wood and Uwe Rossler - we only got one of our pre-quiz predictions correct but all of the actual questions correct. 10/10
Round 7 - Jeopardy - not our best effort at this - confident on half a dozen of them, wary of a couple and stumped by a couple more we played safe and banked what we knew. 6/10
Round 8 - Music - with no anodyne male crooners to trip us up this week we styled it out for a smooth 20/20
In all, seven teams competed with final scores ranging from 89 to a very impressive 173 - the Hound came third with 148.
So, there you go - a tale of two quizzes. All that remains is for me to post this and then do "a far, far better thing" and get myself some food.
* W1F 7TF
** Jacqui Smith and NOT, as we thought, Harriet Harman
*** They've all had effigies of themselves burnt publically
Thus wrote Charles Dickens - paraphrased to hell and back maybe but bear with...
Quiz The First
Applegarth, Braithwaite near Keswick
28th October 2015
Simply getting the teams picked had been a mission in itself - four teams of three, must be mixed gender, can't partner anyone you're married to nor can you partner anyone you're a parent to or a child of. The twelve contestants chewed it over for a while before eventually the youngest amongst us grabbed a pen and some paper and worked out all the options and combinations - from which the team captains then randomly selected their players.
Twelve family members had gathered to celebrate the 70th birthday of the thirteenth attendee and, given that most of us present had on many occasions either joined or crossed swords in quiz battle, I had offered to compere a quiz for everybody. And now finally, 72 hours, a couple of long walks, several large meals and one visit to the local vets later, the teams were identified, gathered and ready. Quiz on...
Fortunately our location's extremely flakey wireless broadband network had one of its better hours during the opening round of the quiz - 'Feel Free To Use Your Phone' - featuring a range of questions unanswerable without the help of the internet even by a team of Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Brian Cox, Magnus Magnusson and that camp, bitchy, fella from The Eggheads. (eg - what is the post code of the London Theatre shares its name with the chemical element that boils at 2963 degrees centigrade? *)
Over the course of the day nine more rounds followed covering a range of topics from identifying dog breeds from various puppies through to guessing the mileage between varying combinations of attendee's post-codes with more traditional music and 'connections' rounds thrown in.
Suffice to say there were breaks for food, even more breaks for drinks and eventually a winner was declared around 0130h on Thursday morning. Congratulations to Jane (Hamster), Ashleigh (Hound) and Mark (brother-in-law of no previously fixed team affiliation) who won by a handful of points with only one point covering the other three teams.
The Applegarth Quizzers
Purley Arms, Croydon
5th November 2015
Pre-quiz chat included our nominations for possible answers to this week's anticipated 'U' category - we came up with, Ultravox, Uncle Remus, Ultraviolet, Uncle Bulgaria, Umbilical cord, Ursula Andress, Uzbekistan and Ullysses.
Mention of James Joyce's great work led to my making a statement -"I was recently given a copy of Ulysses but it's sheer size has put me off - thickest book I've ever had" - which I can now back up with evidence which I think you'll agree conclusively proves my claim...
Joyce's Ulysses - all 980 pages of it...
Anyhow.
Round 1 - ten politicians to identify from photos of one of each of their respective two faces... We were confident we'd got 10/10 but we got number 8 horribly wrong.**
Round 2 - Current Affairs - footballers have bad teeth, Cameron 'wore' a digital poppy, Nigella Lawson has a recipe for avocado on toast and Tom Waits feels ripped off by Adele's new single. Apparently. We usually get seven out of ten here - with hindsight the writing was on the wall early on. 6/10
Round 3 - November 5th - other than knowing Guy Fawkes actual name (Tom Guido apparently) and who starred in Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Hanks & Bruce Willis) we had reasonable treason/firework/gunpowder/bonfire knowledge. 8/10
Round 4 - Connections - Gordon Brown, Wayne Rooney, Katie Price, Mario Balotelli, Jonathan Ross, Tony Blair, Sepp Blatter, James Hewitt and Lance Armstrong all share what in common... *** 9/10
Round 5 - 3 x 10 pointers - breezed them 30/30
Round 6 - 'U's - Umbro, Unibomber, Ugg Boots, Ulysses, Ugly Betty, Urals, Usher, Uriah Heap, Under Milk Wood and Uwe Rossler - we only got one of our pre-quiz predictions correct but all of the actual questions correct. 10/10
Round 7 - Jeopardy - not our best effort at this - confident on half a dozen of them, wary of a couple and stumped by a couple more we played safe and banked what we knew. 6/10
Round 8 - Music - with no anodyne male crooners to trip us up this week we styled it out for a smooth 20/20
In all, seven teams competed with final scores ranging from 89 to a very impressive 173 - the Hound came third with 148.
So, there you go - a tale of two quizzes. All that remains is for me to post this and then do "a far, far better thing" and get myself some food.
* W1F 7TF
** Jacqui Smith and NOT, as we thought, Harriet Harman
*** They've all had effigies of themselves burnt publically
Friday, 30 October 2015
Hound, As Leeds Lose. Oh What EvEr Next?
Same team as for Saturday's away draw with Bolton. Sombrero Steve's first home match in charge, looking for a home win for the first time in nearly 8 months. Could there really be cause for optim... No!, didn't even notice that they had kicked off and Blackburn are ahead after 17 seconds. Worse news that Rhodes didn't score it, his customary goal yet to come, oh there it is 5 minutes in. Maybe I won't be quite so distracted as I thought from the quiz. Can't hear what the Elland Road crowd are singing, but imagine that both the Italian and the Scot are squirming in their seats. Definitely wouldn't trust the Scot near my pie and chips, and don't trust him near my team either. Surprisingly little abuse for me, decked out like a Christmas tree, from the resident Chelsea contingent. Sadly, they probably find Leeds underperforming (a euphemism if ever there was one) almost as predictable as I do.
First half of the quiz was heavily Halloween themed. We got all of the horror films in the pictures round, except for incorrectly naming 'Child's Play' as 'Chucky'. Poor Current Affairs round, not knowing the name of a gun toting dog, venue of the Bond premiere, the former occupation of Jimmy Morales now Guatemalan president, or which foul mouthed actress said something or other. Answers were Barbara Windsor, TV comic, Trigger and the Royal Albert Hall, though not necessarily in that order. Missed two in the vaguely Halloween related round, decent effort.
All of 1-9 answered correctly in the connections round, but 3 bewildered faces as we sought to even find a connection for any chosen 3. The answer was staring us in the face, though Robson rather weakly claimed it was more difficult upside down, don't stand on your head I say. We now have to add checking for acronyms to the golden rules of the connections round, after considering that they all have a birthday today, or all relate to some specific kind of flora (we went for daffodils, don't think that this will even enable you to guess one of the answers), etc. See if you can get from the following list (see also Blog title).
Heptagon
Adele
Little Women
Life of Pi
Orang-Utan
When Harry Met Sally
Eagle
Elle McPherson
Norwich City
To be fair, only the young uns with their accompanying elder actually got it right.
Missed Templeton Peck in the 10 pointers, look it up yourself.
Second half (no, we are not still discussing the football). Ten answers starting with 'T', including tenuously 'The Nineties', at least Siobhan apologised for this liberty. An apology regarding the question itself would probably have been appropriate as well, a quick google comes up with the dates of 1887, 1913 and 1848 for Trafalgar Square riots ahead of any mention of 1990 which to my mind is much better known as the Poll Tax riots and was far more widespread than just Trafalgar Square. We put the 1910's, so surely worth a picture of that year's shenanigans.
Bit peeved not to get 'Twelve Oaks' as the Wilkes plantation in 'Gone With The Wind', but bad luck that the other plantation 'Tara' starts with a 'T' as well (or one could argue a well laid bear trap). I would also question whether Ipswich town are really nicknamed 'The Tractor Boys', but I guess it is in common usage. Ooh Arrrr!
It seems like the Jeopardy round has been beefed up since 3-4 teams nailed it on a couple of occasions. We only answered 5 this week and were still indebted to generous marking after mis-stating 'A Beautiful Mind' as 'A Brilliant Mind' - Daren being the first to point out that this was more closely related to an eighties classic by Furniture, than it was to a book/film about a mathematical genius.
Ones we missed were;
McCarron Airport - Las Vegas
Indy 500 celebration drink - Milk
Alfred Jingle - Pickwick Papers.
Bishop's hooked staff - Crosier.
Louis Reard 1946 invention - Bikini
Disappointed not to get the Dickens Q, but did manage to narrow it down to 4 one of which was the correct answer. Not worth gambling, far too much guesswork required.
Usual story in the music round, only missed P!nk's song and one other by I can't remember who. Hang on, I also have a vague remembrance of Adele being mistaken for Will Young? With a low score of 126 maybe we deserved to lose by 2 points on this occasion. Robson predicted a second place finish very early on, a self-fulfilling prophecy or just not good enough? The latter I fear.
G-Hound
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