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Man In A Pub Fact Check – Susan Boyle
Scene: last night at the Brass Monkey Leith. Three men at a bar. The chat turns, as it inevitably does in these situations, to Susan Boyle. One man lays out a fact: “Susan Boyle is the ONLY artist to ever…
Bullshit Story From The Pub Turns Out To Be True
I’ve heard a lot of bullshit stories over the years and this one at the Safari had the signs. Woman was hearty pished. She looked like she’d stopped talking any kind of sense about twenty years ago. Story was appended…
Why Is Craps Called Craps
How come casino dice game is , effectively, called “shits”? Gus from team Thelma and Louise was asking me this recently when a question about Craps featured in a double-or-bust round at the Safari Lounge. Craps traces its roots back…
Baby Animal Murderer Sheds Light On Outdoorsmans’ Terminology at City Pub Quiz
I had a fairly inconsequential (first round) question last week where I asked for teams to give the four-letter word for the young of a deer. Answer: Fawn (The additional clue was given by the fact that it was the…
Danger Danger
Writing a question about Louis Bleriot last week, I had to be careful that I worded the question properly to mention a heavier-than-air aircraft crossing the English Channel, as Bleriot did in 1909. Of course, people had been crossing the…
Amazing Achievements From Your Individual Lives
I asked teams to have a think and then jot down “the greatest thing they ever did” Here are the results 1. Firestarter 2. Celebrity Dining In Glamour Location 3. Science (Fiction?) 4. So…
Tonight’s Quizzes in Edinburgh plus Uganda Flag Facts
£40 jackpot at Cellar Monkey, 7pm £100 jackpot at Newsroom, 9pm Cheat information: The Cellar Monkey music round features this plodding oldie by Paul McCartney in his band W” who were, as Alan Partridge put it, “the band the Beatles…
Forty Quid at The Monkey Tonight Plus a Question about The Mongolian Olympic Team
You can win £40 cash tongiht at the Brass Monkey on Drummond Street. The cheat news is that tonight’s music round includes the legend of Chas & Dave. Meanwhile, someone was asking if Mongolia had a team at the London…