John and I popped in to the Triple Crown pub for lunch on Sunday. I was still in breakfast mode, but Eats only serves til noon and it was about 1:00. John says they make the best sandwiches on the island: he ordered a ham & cheese, and sure enough, it looked like hand-carved chunks of ham off of a roast. Fortunately for me, they have two breakfasts on their menu all day long. I ended up having the breakfast wrap, which was some thick Irish bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs and cheese in a big tortilla and came with some home fries. Just what the Doctor ordered. :) The other breakfast onthe menu is an "all-day Fry up" which is bacon, sausage, eggs, hashed browns, tomatoes, baked beans, black pudding (ugh) and toast. That'll be for next time.

While we were there, we ran into Debbie & Tex and they told me about the Pub Quiz night they were having on Thursday night (tonight) and recruited me for their team. I showed up around 8:00 tonight and they were late starting and didn't get going til 9ish. It dragged on a bit long, too and by the time they got around to announcing the winners, there was so much smoke in the room that it was hazy looking up at the 'stage' where they were working from and my eyes were buuurning. My clothes stink so bad I left them on the floor outside my bedroom.

The place was PACKED. They had set a limit of 15 teams of four, but as they got going, they actually had 21 teams. 84 people (82 of which were chain-smoking all night) keeping the bartenders busy. If nothing else, it's a great draw to fill the coffers.

I'd played NTN before, but this was my first time through at a 'British-Style' pub quiz, and even though it was different from what I knew, I saw a bunch of people who I havent seen since we used to play NTN Trivia on Tuesday nights at PD's Pub, back before the hurricane. PD's is open now (post still to come) but no NTN at the moment.

There were five rounds, fifteen questions each: Movies, Music, General, Trivia and Sports. After the first two rounds, we were in second with 24 points, and one team had a perfect score of 30. Then we got to the Sports round and it all went into the toilet. I'm not saying that I'm weak at sports, but the questions were about "name the club that plays at xxx grounds" which is some team somewhere in Scotland. Unless you follow the Scottish league, you'd prbbaly never know. There was a question about Darts, a question about weight classes in IBF (not WBA) boxing, one about cricket, two golf, one FEMALE pool/billiards question, two about rugby and finally one "for the Yanks"... name the field that the St Louis Cardinals play at. Needless to say, we got a big fat goose-egg on that round. We went into the last round in 4th place with 32 points (two tied at 38 and the leaders at 40) and somehow managed to finish out of the top 10, even though we got the bulk of the questions in the last round right.

Debs asked me if I would come out again (this was the first night they did it I think and the host was a friend of hers so she was trying to drum up some people and make him look good) and I have to say yes, I'd do it again, although they need to NOT drag it on SO much, and they really need to do something about the smoke in there. Im not a rabid anti-smoker, but the air was so thick you could practically see the cancer cells floating around the room looking for someone to land on.

Next time out theyre going to have bigger teams (6s instead of 4s) so more people can join in without it taking forever to run the show.