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Fact Check – Tony Christie is Agatha Christie’s Grandson?

Tue, January 26, 2021Tue, January 26, 2021 Dr PaulMan In A Pub FactsLeave a Comment on Fact Check – Tony Christie is Agatha Christie’s Grandson?

Last night one of the quizzers informed us that Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie was the grandmother of Tony “Show Me The Way To Amarillo” Christie. Let’s see if it checks out, First stop is the Tony Christie Wikipedia page.…

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Man In Pub Fact – 698 Cities In China

Man In Pub Fact – 698 Cities In China

Mon, February 3, 2020Mon, February 3, 2020 Dr PaulMan In A Pub FactsLeave a Comment on Man In Pub Fact – 698 Cities In China

Geezer says to me at the Tolbooth Tavern: “Go on – ask this: How many cities are there in China?” I said “What’s the answer” He said “Six hundred and ninety-eight. Go on – ask it.” Obviously I decline. I…

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The 46 States of The USA?

Mon, July 22, 2019Mon, July 22, 2019 Dr PaulFact Check, Man In A Pub FactsLeave a Comment on The 46 States of The USA?

Classic Man In a Pub Fact from last night:, as given to me be a guy from Wales who was called Iuan or perhaps Euan or maybe Eion, but who definitely from Wales. “There are NOT 50 US states, there…

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Man In A Pub Fact Check – Susan Boyle

Tue, September 4, 2018 Dr PaulFact Check, Facts, Man In A Pub FactsLeave a Comment on 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…

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Bar Animal Cruelty Now, Etc.

Sat, July 8, 2017Tue, July 4, 2017 Dr PaulMan In A Pub FactsLeave a Comment on Bar Animal Cruelty Now, Etc.

Classic man-in-a-pub fact last week. There’s a guy in the pub who says he “used to work in television”. I don’t doubt him, sounds kosher enough but then I happened to play the TV theme tune for Skippy. This guy…

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Stuff I Learned At The Quiz This Week

Tue, April 11, 2017 Dr PaulDr Paul's Blog, Man In A Pub Facts, Team Names, TriviaLeave a Comment on Stuff I Learned At The Quiz This Week

Maggie told me at the Joker & The Thief that a man in the USA died from choking on a donut during a donut eating challenge. This turns out to be true. Detail: The donut was a half-pounder and the…

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Taller Than You Think

Tue, October 20, 2015Tue, October 20, 2015 Dr PaulDr Paul's Blog, Man In A Pub Facts8 Comments on Taller Than You Think

Man-in-a-pub facts are always worth writing down and checking. Sometimes I get great questions that way. For example, someone told me recently that TV presenter Jonathan Ross is unusually short. “Really?” I said, “I always thought he was quite tall?”…

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Fact Check: Do Pigeons Have Penises?

Thu, August 27, 2015Tue, October 20, 2015 Dr PaulDr Paul's Blog, Man In A Pub Facts4 Comments on Fact Check: Do Pigeons Have Penises?

A team at the Newsroom the other week dropped a bombshell when they told me that pigeons don’t have penises. What? Pigeons don’t have penises? Can this be true? Sounds like a man-in-a-pub fact to me. Time for some super-horny…

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A Man In A Pub Told Me… Part 1 (Platypus)

Fri, July 10, 2015Fri, July 10, 2015 Dr PaulDr Paul's Blog, Man In A Pub Facts4 Comments on A Man In A Pub Told Me… Part 1 (Platypus)

As a quizmaster, I frequently face men in pubs (women too but mainly blokes) who wish to tell me fascinating true and genuine facts. The usual idea is that I’m supposed to first be amazed and secondly throw their ‘fact’…

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I tried the hundred days thing last year - tried t I tried the hundred days thing last year - tried to do an illustrated fact every day for a hundred days. Faltered round about #60. Posting a few now and I'm going to see if I can finish it off this year - it should be coming around soon.
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1. Which American newspaper won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for it's reporting of the Watergate story?

2. Clark Kent, the mild-mannered alter-ego of comic book hero Superman, works on which newspaper?

3. In "Spiderman", what is the name of the newspaper where Peter Parker works?

4. In which year did the UK newspaper 'The Sun' stop publishing pictures of topless female models as a regular feature on page 3? Get within 3 years for the points.

5. In which country is the headquarters of 'The Straits Times' the highest selling newspaper in that country as well as a big-seller in neighbouring Malaysia?
WINE QUIZ 1. Which micro-organism is used in the WINE QUIZ

1. Which micro-organism is used in the production of wine, beer and Marmite?

2. What country does Jacob's Creek wine come from?

3. Which wine region of France includes the areas Maconnais and Chablis? Clue: answer starts with the letter B.

4. What is the most widely planted wine grape in the world?

5. As it ages, does white wine get darker or lighter?
That's me on the right. Not technically old enough That's me on the right. Not technically old enough to know any answers to quiz questions at this point, let alone able to ask any. This is either 1978 or 1979.
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I love all this old shite and will come back to th I love all this old shite and will come back to the shop and but it's when I am wealthy
Friday quiz is also now at 9pm Friday quiz is also now at 9pm
Mad Wikipedia paragraph of the day: "Reeve went t Mad Wikipedia paragraph of the day:

"Reeve went through inner anguish in the ICU, particularly when he was alone during the night. His approaching operation to reattach his skull to his spine in June 1995 "was frightening to contemplate. ... I already knew that I had only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the surgery. ... Then, at an especially bleak moment, the door flew open and in hurried a squat fellow with a blue scrub hat and a yellow surgical gown and glasses, speaking in a Russian accent." The man announced that he was a proctologist and was going to perform a rectal exam on Reeve. It was Robin Williams, reprising his character from the film Nine Months.
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