Hot Cross Hound

It was the day before Good Friday and with four days to recover, there was no reason to hold back on the boozing, Daren and Kevster were already hard at it when I showed up sometime before six. The first thing to notice was that the new management appear to have embraced all things Hound with a picture of one, quite possibly the same one as the basset on this blogspot on the toilet wall. What effect this would have on the customers it was difficult to tell but I certainly approved. The toilets were a bit cleaner as well.

Not long later and a newly shorn Pete showed up, fresh from spending five hours on the M40 - or rather not as the M40 was shut requiring a detour. Beer of the week was a rather fruity "Flying Dutchman" number - Pete and myself tucked in enthusiastically while the others stuck to numbers.

It was still an hour before the quiz was due to start and most of the group were still hungry. Hence a rather unimaginative list of pre quiz meals, chicken, chicken, cheese sandwich and chicken. Pick the bones out of that lot Danny.

Onto round one and now the impact of the Flying Dutchman is starting to kick in, I remember we correctly identified Beyonce being older than Katie Melua and light travels at 186,000m/s - though I knew that anyway. Oh and it's the 3rd level of the Tower of Pisa that leans, think we said the fourth. Somehow we finished the round on 29/30, not sure how, it can't have been our answers.

Round two and there was music. I think there was Rossini and the James Bond theme and probably something by either Girls Aloud or The Saturdays. We were still thereabouts though at the end.

Round three - maybe three on the true or false. The anagram was INDICATE. I challenge anyone to get this, clue, I did a degree in the relevant subject but still didn't get it and have just googled it to check what it is.

Well we didn't win, not a vintage Hound performance but we gained a point on Quizzards Sleeve who weren't there again and the raffle wasn't won. We move on.