This was a lot of fun - nope, not getting horribly lost around the perimeter of Peckham Rye, but the lovely, lovely South London Hardcore pub quiz at the Ivy House on Sunday evening.

A genuine community pub, Transpontine questions, and the chance to resurrect Team Metroknobbers from back in the days of Metro-blogging.

What could possibly go wrong?

Um…

How about the South London inspired music round?

Pass.

And pass, Plus once again: pass.

It got off to a good start with the first ten questions all themed around Transpontine sport.

First Q:

“What is the name of the ground that [the mighty] Dulwich Hamlet play at?”

It was to our good fortune that Team Metroknobbers contained not only two weary-eyed survivors from the Wealdstone away day 24 hours earlier, but also Mr Dulwich Hamlet being recruited as a Metroknobber.

Job’s a good ‘un, Mishi (although it’s a shame that Jack and Steve didn’t impose the #dhfc fundamentalism of only accepting Champion Hill Stadium as an answer. I personally would have only allowed Champion Hill Stadium, Edgar Way, Comrades.)

Questions on Surrey cricket, Herne Hill cycling and Camberwell wrestling followed. I waiting for the Clap’ham korfball round, convinced that the GLORY of winning the SLHC pub quiz was there for the taking.

TUPPAWARE was up for grabs. PLENTY of Tupperware. Andrew Humphrey, the UK’s Tupperware Salesperson of the Year (I think) had very kindly donated a mountain of Tupperware to rival the Col du Crystal Palace.

The TUPPAWARE love pretty much sums up the SLHC love that was in the Ivy House on Sunday evening. It’s no mean feat in what Jack and Steve have achieved: talking hit and miss Transpontine tales (usually hit) into a microphone EVERY week, and then seeing what comes back your way.

To fill a back room boozer with similar Transpontine types is impressive. Yer Tupperware man is just one of the many believers in SLHC, keen to give something back to the commitment of producing the hyperlocal podcast each week.

It’s the way of the modern interweb, and in particular, the way of how South London contains something quite unique when it comes to supporting outsider status. You produce [ha!], press publish, and then wait to see what comes back at you.

A room full of empty looks when the music round started *may* have been one of the very rare misses, but the rest of the SLHC quiz was absolutely ACE.

I admit that Team Metroknobbers got a little messed up with the format of the music round. The So Solid Crew question was equally tricky and piss-taking:

“Apart from 21 Seconds, name one other So Solid single.”

Ouch.

Team Metroknobbers soon realised as the evening progressed that we are no longer hip gun-slinging muso types, but Transpontine topological geographic nerds. We knew our Bromley’s better than our Bowie.

A joint fourth place finish out of ten teams was… pah. We weren’t in it for Transpontine glory. Or even the tupperware glory. It was all about letting SLHC know that there is an audience out there in modern interweb land.

Weekly Transpontine podcasts (over ONE HUNDRED!) are truly appreciated. The current Brixton Blog catch up with @Tim_Dickens is definitely worth forty-five minutes of your time.

I cycled back to Sunny Stockwell around the correct route for Peckham Rye, pleased to have supported both SLHC and the Ivy House. I didn’t get lost en route.

South London is mine for the taking, Comrades.