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Tuesday 20th August 2019

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Tonight’s Quiz:

9pm – O’Connors. Jackpot: £30. Cheat clue: Kylie Minogue (music round)

Tuesday

Canonmills, baby. It’s where all the cool people live. Come and join the kind of jet set which occurs when the bottom of the New Town meets the top of Inverleith.

It’s like Beverley hills 90210 but with more reasonable tap prices.

Cheat News

One of the answers in tonight’s picture round is Kylie Minogue. This is the song:

Kylie, defying age etc

Kylie might not look fifty, but remember kids: its all CGI.

See if you met her during the day, without her slap, and taking a an hour or two out of her hectic touring schedule to scull a few well-earned tins of Red Stripe in the wee park at Nicholson Square.. you wouldn’t look twice at her.

In fact, even if she hit her threshold, lets say nine tins, and started screaming obscenities at the pigeons, you would never notice it was the chart-topper.

You’d think it was just another crazy old booze lady.

So anyway: thank god it’s not you who’s on the street yelling brutal drunken nonsense at inanimate objects and birds.

Come to the quiz tonight. 9pm at O’Connor’s

you owe it to yourself.

Cheers,

Dr Paul

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Monday 19th August 2019

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Pub Quizzes in Edinburgh Tonight:

7pm – Brass Monkey Leith. Jackpot: £150. Cheat: Farley Jackmaster Funk (music round)

7pm – Portobello Tap. Jackpot: £60. Cheat: Neiked (music round)

9pm – Argyle Bar Jackpot £90. Cheat news: Paris Hilton (pic round)

9pm – Safari Lounge. Jackpot £120. Cheat news: Liverpool (pic round)

New Quizzes

Monday is still getting used to two new quizzes, both presented by by Kerry and her fast cab between the two: The Portobello Tap at 7pm (in Portobello – bet you guessed) and The Argyle Bar at 9pm (in Marchmont).

Both quizzes are rollovers tonight and both take a wee while to get up and and running, so take advantage of a lower turnout and a decent pot – get along tonight.

Cheats

Here are the music round cheats for tonight

The first is for the Brass Leith:

The shiniest green shirt in the whole of docklands

Now THAT is how to wear a shiny green shirt in an abandoned dockside for a solo funk house workout in the eighties.

Farley Jackmaster Funk was the musician and got the big credit on the record label but a huge part ofthe record’s success was to do with the singer who was the extremely fierce Darryl Pandy.

Sadly, Pandy is no longer with us but his Top Of The Pops appearance was vital stuff back in the day and there’s a good article here which recalls the impact he made.

Meanwhile, another music round cheat for the Portobello Tap, a more recent hit

This appears to be one of those songs that no one anticipated being a hit, so there’s no proper video.

Best we have here are some students doing fashion walks.

It’ll do – you can hear the tune and that’s what’s important.

Just like the other video, it’s the music man who gets the big credit. Neiked is the stage name of a Swedish bloke called Victor, whereas the vocal is by Dyo, who is an English singer. I think in this case, the song is nothing without the vocal. It reached number 5 on the UK chart.

Anyway – great jackpots tonight and with the festival still in full swing – you’re better avoiding the town so we’ll see you at the quizzes.

Happy days.

See ya later – x

Dr P

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Beer Garden at the Portobello Tap
Beers at the Portobello Tap


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News

Thursday 15th August

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Quizzes Tonight:

7.30pm – Ship Inn, Musselburgh. Jackpot £90. Cheat answer: Jean-Michel Jarre (music round) – Currently Closed for Refurb. (see below)

9pm – The Newsroom. Jackpot £100. Cheat answer: The Eurythmics (music round).

The Ship

The Ship is closed for a a big refurb, so no Musselburgh quiz for a few weeks (or months).

Kerry will return but if you’re over that way, remember that she has a new quiz at on Monday at the newly opened Portobello Tap. Monday 7pm.

Cheat Clue

Here are the cheat clue for tonight’s music round at the Newsroom. It’s 80s family favourites The Eurythmics.

An artistic Aberdonian and a beardy scruff.

Annie Lennox looks like an incredible work of art in this video.

Music bloke Dave Stewart looks like the kind of hipster-tramp that your mother would cross the road to avoid. (Rightly).

As if I’m one to talk.

Come and experience the scruffy-yet-wearing-a-jacket vibe that I bring to the Edinburgh pub quiz scene from 9pm tonight at the Newsroom.

Incentive: You can win a hundred quid in real cash.

And money is a thing of beauty. It has been decided.

See you at the quiz.

Cheers,

Dr Paul

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Newsroom Quiz Joy



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News

Tuesday 13th August 2019

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Tonight’s Quiz:

9pm – O’Connors. Jackpot: £90.

£90 jackpot at o'connor's
Watch out for Lenny

Kerry is back tonight at O’Connor’s – and with the jackpot at £90 there’s every chance Lenny Henry will turn up.

Sorry, SIR Lenny Henry. I forgot about his knighthood that he earned by advertising cheap hotels that are handily places for easy access to the Motorway network.

Cheat News

One of the answers in tonight’s picture round is ‘Blackadder 2’

Y’all remember Blackadder don’t you? Or is it one of those things that I think is commonly known but it turns out it was on TV 30 years ago and isn’t quite as universal as I think?

Nahhh, everyone knows Blackadder.

It’s a difficult balancing act sometimes, asking questions which everyone can guess at. Finding a set of questions is hard where everything can ring a bell but which are not too easy for the seasoned quiz-goers.

And yet we manage it every time. That’s cos DP Quiz is the best. For real. Top truth.

How old is Kailzie
How old questions – universal.

That’s why “how old questions” sometimes occur in the picture round – they are a great example of something that is universally in common. Also – bloody hard to Google!

So come to the quiz tonight. 9pm at O’Connor’s

you owe it to yourself.

Cheers,

Dr Paul

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Monday 12th Aug – ANOTHER New Quiz Tonight

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Pub Quizzes in Edinburgh Tonight:

7pm – Brass Monkey Leith. Jackpot: £100. Cheat: The Legend of Zelda (pic round)

7pm – Portobello Tap. Jackpot: £30. Cheat: Pixie & Dixie (pic round)

9pm – Argyle Bar Jackpot £60. Cheat news: Dua Lipa (music round)

9pm – Safari Lounge. Jackpot £90. Cheat news: OMD (music round)

New Quiz

The Portobello Tap is a brand new quiz in a brand new pub in good old-fashioned Porty.

The seaside bit of Edinburgh has always been a cool place to go but now it’s a cool place to live and the increasing amount of cool people have forced the High Street to open a cool pub.

That pub is the Portobello Tap and they’re so cool that they have booked Kerry to come and present the DP Quiz every Monday night.

They do burgers till ten. Go and check it out, win the inaugural quiz and become an all time legend.

Cheats

Here are the music round cheats for tonight

The first is for the Argyle Bar:

Dua Lipa – unconvincing attitude pose

It’s Dua Lipa. I’m not convinced by this song and video of hers.

If you really want to communicate to an ex-lover the idea that you “don’t give a fuck”, what’s the best way to do it?

Is it to ignore them?

Or is it to write and record a pop song, and create an accompanying pop video that features full-blown costume, make-up, dancers and choreography?

Anyway – what do I know?

The second featured music round clue for tonight relates to the Safari Lounge. It is this:

I’m more comfortable with this. It’s the boys from OMD, cutting about in a nice piece of industrial decline.

When the video for this song was shot (1980), you could find these disused factories everywhere. There were about six of them on every street.

You could play in there all day and neither your parents nor Jimmy Savile could ever find you.

Happy days.

See ya later – x

Dr P

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Beer Garden at the Portobello Tap
Beers at the Tap

 




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Sunday 11th August 2019

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Tonight’s quizzes :

6pm – The Persevere. Jackpot: £60. Cheat: Luther Vandross (music round)

8pm – Tolbooth Tavern. Jackpot: £90. Cheat: Cabaret (pic round)

The football season is back on but we won’t be fully impacted at the Persevere for a few weeks yet. There’s a Sunday coming up when it’s Hibs/Hearts on a Sunday afternoon and we’ve agreed to just drop the quiz that night.

Tonight, however, is perfectly normal and we even have rollover jackpots at both tonight’s quizzes.

MUSIC ROUND CHEATS

By the way, here’s the audio cheat for tonight which refers to the music round at the Persevere:

Luther Vandross: Totally Smoth

It’s Luther Vandross who’s smoother than Castrol GTX.

Luther’s so smooth that physics teachers play his music in class when they’re doing experiments to reduce friction.

He’s smoother than a velvet yoghurt that can speed-skate.

In fact, scientists at CERN test Luther Vandross thoroughly in 1989 and concluded that the atoms that make up the singer move with a smoother frequency compared to normal humans

Come to the quiz and everything will be as smooth as Luther.

Oooh yeah.

Love,

Dr Paul

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Wednesday 7th August

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Quizzes tonight:

7pm – The Joker & The Thief. Jackpot £30. Cheat: Simply Red (music round)

9pm – Brass Monkey, Drummond Street. Jackpot £60 Cheat: Princess Superstar (music round) (

(Brass Monkey Drummond Street quiz is off during the festival)

Cheat Tip

Here is the Simply Red song that’s in tonight’s music round at the Joker:

Sex Symbol of the 1980s (somehow) – Mick Hucknall

Mick Hucknall, the singer of Simly Red was a major sex symbol of the 1980s.

I’ll just leave that there.

Remember – town is full of wanks. Come to the Joker. It’s a safe space.

Thirty quid. All right.

See you later,

Love,

Dr P

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Tuesday 6th August

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Tonight’s Quiz:

9pm – O’Connors. Jackpot: £60.

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£60 jackpot at O’Connor’s tonight

Kerry is back tonight at O’Connor’s – the new pulsing nite-spot (and day-spot) on the North Central Edinburgh scene.

The food is great at O’Connor’s so get your dinner and do the quiz.

Dinner is not mandatory, just an option.

No cash winner last week so it’s a rollover and tonight’s cash jackpot will be £60. Make it yours!

Cheat News

Here is the video so you can listen to the song for tonight’s cheat answer, which is your old pal Queen Latifah:

The word Unity, but with stops

Does U.N.I.T.Y. stand for something seeing as how it has the dots? Or is it just the word ‘Unity’ but in a spelled-out style?

A quick deek at the lyrics makes me think that she’s just spelling it out. I can’t see any acronyms or abbreviations.

Here’s a sample of the lyric:

U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that’s a unity (You gotta let him know)
(You go, come on here we go)
U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black man from (You got to let him know) infinity to infinity (You ain’t a bitch or a ho)

Instinct leads me to another flow
Everytime I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho
Trying to make a sister feel low
You know all of that gots to go
Now everybody knows there’s exceptions to this rule
Now don’t be getting mad, when we playing, it’s cool
But don’t you be calling out my name
I bring wrath to those who disrespect me like a dame
That’s why I’m talking, one day I was walking down the block
I had my cutoff shorts on right cause it was crazy hot
I walked past these dudes when they passed me
One of ’em felt my booty, he was nasty
I turned around red, somebody was catching the wrath
Then the little one said (Yeah me bitch) and laughed
Since he was with his boys he tried to break fly
Huh, I punched him dead in his eye and said “Who you calling a bitch?”

So it’s about domestic violence. Anyway, on a cheerier note, winning the quiz feels like riding a giant golden turtle to infinity.

Winning quiz feels like riding a golden turtle. Legit.

So come to the quiz tonight. 9pm at O’Connor’s

you owe it to yourself.

Cheers,

Dr Paul

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Mon 5th August – NEW QUIZ TONIGHT

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Pub Quizzes in Edinburgh Tonight:

7pm – Brass Monkey Leith. Jackpot: £50. Cheat: Gareth Gates (music round)

9pm – Argyle Bar Jackpot £30. Cheat news: Stegosaurus (pic round)

9pm – Safari Lounge. Jackpot £60. Cheat news: Sri Lanka (pic round)

New Quiz

The Argyle Bar is an old quiz that’s a new quiz.

I’ve been doing the Argyle downstairs for years on a Thursday but it has now switched to Monday night at 9pm in the ground-floor bar – aka upstairs.

The host is Kerry who is already doing a great job at two other quizzes and she’s looking forward to meeting you all at 9pm tonight.

To be clear: it’s still the Dr Paul quiz format – still the quiz you love but with a fresh new face rather than my tawdry old chat.

If you still want my tawdry old chat – I’m available at the other two quizzes tonight.

Cheats

Here is the music round cheat for tonight which applies to the Brass Monkey Leith:

Gareth Gates – pop star

Is Gareth Gates still a pop star? Do you reckon he has it on his business card?

Gareth Gates

Pop Star

0773 168 1450

Parties and Functions

Does he do weddings? Does he do summer season in Tenerife?

I’ll tell you who does do summer season in Tenerife is Frank who used to drink at (and work in) the Persevere. He’s away out there living the dream and having a great time. I enjoy his updates on Facebook.

As fro Gareth Gates, a quick Wiki finds this as his latest listed work:

” During spring 2017 Gates appeared in Robin Hood Easter Panto at various locations within the United Kingdom.”

So now you know.

See ya later – x

Dr P

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Sunday 4th August 2019

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Tonight’s quizzes :

6pm – The Persevere. Jackpot: £30. Cheat: Vanilla (pic round)

8pm – Tolbooth Tavern. Jackpot: £60. Cheat: Nelly Furtado (music round)

Sunday inspires priests and gardeners. But don’t be left out. Come to the quiz and find a different kind of inspiration: the pub quiz.

MUSIC ROUND CHEATS

By the way, here’s the audio cheat for tonight which refers to the music round at the Tolbooth:

Furtado: not similar to a seagull

Nelly Furtado reckons she’s like a bird because she’ll “only fly away”. If she was like the birds round here she’d nick your chips, shit on your head and steal your dog.

I heard the Seagulls are now getting gallus enough to attack classical music (Tynecastle the other night).

Presumably this is because the Seagulls wanted to hear rock and roll. Is this enough to let them off ir is it time for a war with the seagulls.

One shat on my head last month. I know what side I’m on.

I know they’re just protecting their nests or whatever but they can actually just fuck off.

In fact: NEW QUIZ RULE: Nae seagulls at the quiz.

Right, that’s off my chest and I feel better. See you at the quiz tonight.

!x!

Dr Paul

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Morocco Land Marauders – victorious

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