It was a trip to the Crown & Sceptre in South Croydon this week as Tony returned to his old manor but hasn't yet got to grips with bus timetables. More squad rotation this week as Daren wasn't considered fit enough for two quizzes in a week but Pete returned to join Kevster and myself.
This was my week at home so with time on my hands, I expected to be first there but Tony and Kevster had already bagged a table, Pete turned up around 8.30 after a marathon day at work. Can't remember what the pre-quiz chat mainly comprised but being the C&S there was time for lots of it as we didn't get going until gone 9pm - Tony's mates Dick and Dom were going to join us but in the end thought better of it. Onto the quiz and the usual mix. It was a charity thing with a "Movember theme" - both the quizmaster and his wife seem to have entered the spirit of it, quite strange.
Pictures we ok, though we failed to spot the close up of a tomato and we manage to unpick the connections round. The key round would be "wipeout" which we mucked up spectacularly last time. Older and wiser we had 8 we were confident on, a strong inkling that Bonnie was the first woman shot by the FBI but no idea whatsoever on who played Doctor Who on film. Our 7 dropped points on this round was roundabout the margin of our defeat as we settled for third.
The C&S is a nice pub, affable clientele and the location is good but yet again, the bar had closed before the quiz finished so no post mortem opportunity. We're not really charity people either, Hounds like winning things and having some tangible reward for the evening. Decent chicken burger though and the beer is always up to the mark.
Sunday, 21 November 2010
Friday, 12 November 2010
11th November 2010
In a packed programme tonight;
*Kevster has squirrels in his loft
*Chips, chips, as big as battleships
*Laydee's, lots of lovely laydees (Danny)
*Hound comes second
The evening got off to a strange start when the shemale barmaid came and asked us for ' a strong man' to lend a hand. We offered up Robson and shared a collective shudder as they disappeared into the store cupboard. One can only imagine what horrors befell Robson in there but some things are better left unsaid.
Back in the 'Swan' Bar conversation veered from The Saturdays to the symmetry of clock faces. This may have contributed to Tony choosing to leave us at this point.
So, the ' Remembrance Hounds' team comprised The Mighty Az, Robson, Kevster and myself.
There then followed a quiz with pictures and questions punctuated by several bowls of huge chips. The only round I can recall with any clarity was the 'Pubs of Sutton' photo round which , you may be surprised to hear, Kevster excelled at.
There was 7 teams this week which upped the level of competition somewhat. There were 2 teams of laydees sat directly behind us, cackling and shrieking as women do and singing along to all the music round questions. We didn't want to lose to them! And we didn't. They probably thought that we were great.
When all was said and done, we finished in second place, only 2 points shy of the winning total. So all in all, not a bad effort. We supped our runners up wine (Coke for Az) and pondered next week's quiz, which might be on a Wednesday and might be a different venue. Or not.
*Kevster has squirrels in his loft
*Chips, chips, as big as battleships
*Laydee's, lots of lovely laydees (Danny)
*Hound comes second
The evening got off to a strange start when the shemale barmaid came and asked us for ' a strong man' to lend a hand. We offered up Robson and shared a collective shudder as they disappeared into the store cupboard. One can only imagine what horrors befell Robson in there but some things are better left unsaid.
Back in the 'Swan' Bar conversation veered from The Saturdays to the symmetry of clock faces. This may have contributed to Tony choosing to leave us at this point.
So, the ' Remembrance Hounds' team comprised The Mighty Az, Robson, Kevster and myself.
There then followed a quiz with pictures and questions punctuated by several bowls of huge chips. The only round I can recall with any clarity was the 'Pubs of Sutton' photo round which , you may be surprised to hear, Kevster excelled at.
There was 7 teams this week which upped the level of competition somewhat. There were 2 teams of laydees sat directly behind us, cackling and shrieking as women do and singing along to all the music round questions. We didn't want to lose to them! And we didn't. They probably thought that we were great.
When all was said and done, we finished in second place, only 2 points shy of the winning total. So all in all, not a bad effort. We supped our runners up wine (Coke for Az) and pondered next week's quiz, which might be on a Wednesday and might be a different venue. Or not.
Friday, 5 November 2010
Crazy Az Hounds
A new week and the Hounds chose to "freshen up" the lineup with Az replacing Daren and Tina and joining Kevster and myself. Pre-quiz chat majored on the various employment, health and marital travails of our number, I felt a bit left out at this point but remember the saying, the person who's not laughing is the one the joke's on. My legs ached a bit though.
Onto the quiz and it was to be a straight match between ourselves and The Desperates, a team of three ladies sat next to us. Not wishing to generalise but we suspected "football" might be prove a stronger round for us, while the first round, "Musical Movies" maybe not so.
And so it proved; Peterkins might have improved our score but we struggled to a miserable four. Things picked up after that, the traditional musical joker was ok, The Coral (and in my lonely room ah oo) still don't know what it's called, and our score of six on football proved to be six better than the opposition.
Some nicely worked answers on Geography was the precursor to a good second half, and even the picture round didn't cause any problems. Naturally we swapped papers and despite the poor start no photo-finish was required and the Hounds emerged victorious. Now it was one of the Desperate's birthdays, the most "amusing" present being a shewee. Thankfully no demonstration was given but Kevster suggested the Hound's present should be a swap of prizes. Imagining Tina's fury at this suggestion, I pooh-poohed the idea so we have an incentive for next week, maybe Daren's coming out party!
Onto the quiz and it was to be a straight match between ourselves and The Desperates, a team of three ladies sat next to us. Not wishing to generalise but we suspected "football" might be prove a stronger round for us, while the first round, "Musical Movies" maybe not so.
And so it proved; Peterkins might have improved our score but we struggled to a miserable four. Things picked up after that, the traditional musical joker was ok, The Coral (and in my lonely room ah oo) still don't know what it's called, and our score of six on football proved to be six better than the opposition.
Some nicely worked answers on Geography was the precursor to a good second half, and even the picture round didn't cause any problems. Naturally we swapped papers and despite the poor start no photo-finish was required and the Hounds emerged victorious. Now it was one of the Desperate's birthdays, the most "amusing" present being a shewee. Thankfully no demonstration was given but Kevster suggested the Hound's present should be a swap of prizes. Imagining Tina's fury at this suggestion, I pooh-poohed the idea so we have an incentive for next week, maybe Daren's coming out party!
Thursday, 4 November 2010
28th October 2010 - The Hound plus A Bear
Brief one this (apologies - I wrote it and thought I posted it last weekend but evidently not...)
The regular Hounds were joined briefly by The Long Fingered One, who couldn't actually stay for the quiz, and then by that most female of all the Bears. Who was most welcome and, I'm quite sure, made to feel so...
The winning £30 voucher from a few weeks back was rapidly spent on brain food and we marched, seated, into the picture round - six out of ten was all we were good for, most irritatingly missing the author of the recent bestselling Vampire trilogy (Stephanie Meyer).
First round proper was entitled 'Plant World' which we had steadfastly refused as a possible Joker round but then returned a score of 10/10. We did play our joker on the Halloween Music round (which turned out to be a film round by any other definition) and doubled up for 14 points.
'Children's TV' got us 7 more, 'Soul & Motown' returned a paltry 5, 'Pot Luck' got us 6 more and we could do no better than 6 points on the 'Fictional TV Couple - name the baby' round.
54 points overall - 4 ahead of the team in third but 9 behind the winners.
We had our entry fee returned and a bottle of wine - which disappeared faster then Mrs Bear might have initially thought it would...
Five weeks into The Greyhound experience and it's 2 wins, 2 seconds and a third.
Roll on next week...
The regular Hounds were joined briefly by The Long Fingered One, who couldn't actually stay for the quiz, and then by that most female of all the Bears. Who was most welcome and, I'm quite sure, made to feel so...
The winning £30 voucher from a few weeks back was rapidly spent on brain food and we marched, seated, into the picture round - six out of ten was all we were good for, most irritatingly missing the author of the recent bestselling Vampire trilogy (Stephanie Meyer).
First round proper was entitled 'Plant World' which we had steadfastly refused as a possible Joker round but then returned a score of 10/10. We did play our joker on the Halloween Music round (which turned out to be a film round by any other definition) and doubled up for 14 points.
'Children's TV' got us 7 more, 'Soul & Motown' returned a paltry 5, 'Pot Luck' got us 6 more and we could do no better than 6 points on the 'Fictional TV Couple - name the baby' round.
54 points overall - 4 ahead of the team in third but 9 behind the winners.
We had our entry fee returned and a bottle of wine - which disappeared faster then Mrs Bear might have initially thought it would...
Five weeks into The Greyhound experience and it's 2 wins, 2 seconds and a third.
Roll on next week...
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