All four Hounds gathered in a South Croydon side-street on the eve of my birthday for a first crack at the Crown & Sceptre's quiz.
Too much early fannying around meant we missed out on our table of choice and had to sit immediately opposite the kitchen entrance. Robson caved to the inevitable and ordered a burger and a bowl of chips swiftly followed.
As the quiz kicked off a group of late-comers were seated right next to us - as the evening progressed they transpired to be a group of ex-pat Brits returned here briefly from their now native Canada. Two splendid couples whom it was our pleasure to lord it over throughout the evening.
We started with a picture round - never the Hound's strength, and we returned 6 out of 10. But from then on we picked it right up, 9/10 for each of the second and third rounds and full marks in rounds 4 and 5. The final round was structured such that a full house of correct answers would win 5 bonus points but any incorrect answer given would mean no points for the entire round - better to leave an answer blank than get it wrong. Well the 5 bonus points were never an option as we failed to provide any answer for three questions and got one of our answers completely wrong - nil points.
Total score of 39 points was good enough for 4th place on the night - even with a good last round we'd've been hard pushed to catch the winners.
We supped up and headed out into the South Croydon Badlands in search of one more drink to celebrate that bad old Kevster's birthday. We found a bar, after a bit of a stroll, and ordered our round before realising the time, necking the lot and rushing for last buses.
Crown & Sceptre is a deeceent boozer - food looked nice enough from a fairly bog-standard menu. Bar staff were decent and atmosphere was pleasant enough. Quiz was prefessionally enough run (having been bought from www.redtoothquiz.co.uk) and a return is not out of the question.
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