Dib, dib, dib - flop, flop, flop...

Saturday 1st November 2014
The same Scout Hut as six months ago - South Croydon

Almost exactly six months since The Hound victoriously disgraced itself for charity in a Scout Hall in Croydon we were, incredulously, welcomed back for a second punt.

All in all the evening in question was considerably lower key than it's forerunner had been - and rightly, properly and thankfully so.

G-Force, Robson and I gathered briefly in the Purley Arms and left in good time to, this time, go directly to the Scout Hut - pausing only to purchase alcohol and savoury snacks from an off license en route.  We arrived in advance of kick-off and settled in to self-serve booze and fake Wotsits and Frazzles...

In a strange turn of events we were quite possibly the youngest participating team and certainly not the most inebriated - that mantle belonging to one of the only other two regular teams in attendance from the Purley Arms - specifically the one with 'what's-her-name' in it - she was proper trollied...

Anyway, Siobahn (?) eventually got her wiring sorted out and we were off and underway with the questions...

There was a round of 'Dingbats' that served just as a warm-up and not towards the final scores, a joker to play on any round as seen fit and answer sheets sufficient for the first four rounds - Art & Literature, Geography, History & Sport.

We decided against our joker on any/all of these and blundered through as best we could - which wasn't brilliant to be honest (see scoreboard below).  Half time arrived and time for Cub food - we were promised chicken & ham pie with new potatoes, vegetables and gravy - no surprise then that the queue formed rapidly and boisterously...

... see how boisterous that queue is...  The pie/spuds/veg/gravy were followed by spotted dick and custard - not for me though - my body is a temple...


Second half of the quiz was, Food & Drink, TV & Film, General Knowledge and then Music.  Can't remember any of the specifics other than we reserved our Joker for the Gen. Knowl. - the scoreboard below tells the story of our progress much better than I ever could.  We 'jokered' on the General Knowledge round but to no avail.  Salt was then rubbed in Hound wounds with a more or less complete failure to win anything on any of the billions of purchased raffle tickets - hey-ho...

Third place - a thoroughly pleasant evening and most importantly a goodly amount contributed from The Hound towards a worthy cause.  (We were collectively and effusively thanked earlier in the evening for our donation of £50 from the previous week's pub quiz winnings - which was nice.)

We congratulated the winners, supped up our literal beers, collected our metaphorical fags and headed off for our individual 'rows near Slough'.