Dr Paul

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07/11/2024

Quite a few of the regulars last night at the Brass Shore were expressing their dejection, dismay and disbelief at the result of the US Presidential election.

I prefer to like hopefully, so I offer these nuggets to keep your chin up if you’re suffering from post-Trump depression:

ONE - It’ll all be over in four years. That’s not so long. Four years ago Partick Thistle were in second tier of Scottish football and, as it stands now. Not much changes.

TWO - As bad as Trump is, there will be worse in the future. I remember when no-one could believe that Ronald Reagan had been elected president. ”What a buffoon!”, “America is Crazy!”, they said. Nowadays Reagan is remembered fondly. The days we’re living in now ARE “the good old days” for future people. Enjoy them while you can.

THREE - The range of beers in available in normal pubs continues to expand and improve. You’ve never had it so good.

FOUR - Although some charity shops are taking the p**s with clothes prices, the price of books remains low. It’s still the most cost-effective and satisfying entertainment you can get.

FIVE - There’s a £100 jackpot at the Brass Monkey Drummond St tonight. Trump’s election will have no effect on your chances of winning it.

SIX - America has problems but it’s still not at the stage where you can be beaten and arrested for wearing your pants if you’re a woman (Iran) or stopped from talking too loudly if you’re a woman. (Afghanistan). These are the real bastards.

So there you go: everything will be FINE. If you disagree, come to the quiz and argue with me. I love a good row.

Tonight:
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7 pm – Brass Monkey Drummond St (with me)
Jackpot – £100
Free answer - "LIVING IN A BOX"
No bookings taken - walk in.
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7.30 pm – Fisherrow Tap (with Brigid)
Jackpot – £60
Free answer - "SAINT GEORGE"
Book - 031 259 5830
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9pm – Newsroom (with me)
Jackpot – £50
Free answer - "DARTH MAUL"
Book: 0131 557 5286
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With quiz and love,
Dr Paul

06/11/2024

Delighted for THE P***Y WILLOWS win at The Safari Lounge last night. About time!

06/11/2024

Trump is back in, as I predicted.

And it was exactly the same as 2016: a Democrat incumbent offering more-of-the-same and Trump capitalizing on voters feeling poorer than they did 4 years ago, promising the moon.

As the old saying goes, “It’s the economy, stupid”

Anyway, that’s democracy, which is very flawed.
Luckily. the political structure of Dr Paul Quiz is constructed differently.

Since I started all this back in the 1990s, DP quiz has been an autocracy., with unlimited power continually concentrated in the hands of one individual, which is me.

This works and will continue to work.

I’ve seen them all come and go: Five US Presidents, nine UK Prime Ministers, ALL the Scottish First Ministers and three popes.

You want stability? You want a safe pair of hands? Vote Doctor. Vote Paul.

Obviously, I’m not standing for President of Scotland or whatever right now, but you can show your support by coming to one of the quizzes tonight:
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6 pm – The Joker & The Thief (with me)
Jackpot – £30
Free answer - PICTURE round: "GHANA"
Book: 0131 556 3274 or Facebook
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6 pm – Oz Bar (with Stuart F)
Jackpot – £90
Free answer - PICTURE round: "AMERICAN HUSTLE"
Book: 0131 259 6295 or Facebook
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7 pm – Ship Inn, Musselburgh (with Stewart D)
Jackpot – £90
Free answer - PICTURE round: "GEORGE HARRISON"
Book: 0131 665 2642 or Facebook
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8 pm – West Port Oracle (with Stuart F)
Jackpot – £30
Free answer - PICTURE round: "ADAM SANDLER"
Book: 0131 283 1960 or Facebook
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8.30 pm – Brass Monkey Shore (with me)
Jackpot – £50
Free answer - MUSIC round: "B YOUNG"
Book: 0131 555 7306 or Facebook
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With quiz and love,
Dr Paul

05/11/2024

Bus lunacy. Full top deck at nearly 9pm on a Tuesday? What is this all about?

05/11/2024

I’m glad I’m not American.

Imagine having to choose between the uninspiring more-of-the-same lady and the entertaining-but-fascist clown-man.

It’s enough to make you feel glad for our own sh*tty politics. It can always be worse.

But there’s no election here. All we have to deal with here tonight is fireworks night.

Thoughts and prayers go to everyone who lives on the bus routes which will be curtailed or cancelled tonight as certain areas of the city properly go for it, forcing the hand of Lothian Buses.

So maybe if you win tonight’s biggest jackpot (£270 at the Waverley Bar), you can spend some of it on a taxi.

Whatever you do, do not spend it on co***ne. You don't want to end up like Jason Donovan, do you?

Although, really, it’s none of my business. Stuff it up your nose if you like. Plunge it into your veins. Invest it in stocks. Give it to a homeless. I don’t care.

There is NO moral baggage with our jackpots.

No nanny quizmaster state. Do what you like. Danger, danger, but that’s the price of freedom.

Meanwhile, we start a fresh tonight in Gorgie. Like many of you, I’ve been through Gorgie and I roughly know where it is.

Other than that, it’ll be an adventure. West Edinburgh? Amazing!

Quiz is at half past six.

Full Tuesday lineup for tonight:
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6.30 pm – Brass Monkey Gorgie (with me)
Jackpot – £50
Free answer - PICTURE round: "TOBERMORY"
Book: 0131 327 0543 or message their Instagram
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6.30 pm – Porty Tap (with Isla)
Jackpot – £30
Free answer - PICTURE round: "LAWRENCE OF ARABIA"
Book: 0131 629 6266 or Facebook
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8 pm – Waverley Bar (with Bonni)
Jackpot – £270
Free answer - MUSIC round: "JASON DONOVAN"
Book: 0131 557 9855 or Facebook
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9 pm - Safari Lounge (with me)
Jackpot – £30
Free answer: PICTURE round: "LIBYA"
Book: 0131 661 4741 or Facebook
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With quiz and love,
Dr Paul

05/11/2024

Look at these plonkers.

04/11/2024

I’ve always considered “Remember, remember the 5th of November” a very poor mnemonic.

You could replace the number with any single-syllable digit and it would sound exactly the same.

Remember, remember, the 8th of November. Like, why not?

The best mnemonics have something that makes them impossible to get wrong.I don’t know why, but the name Roy G. Biv (to remember the order of colours in the rainbow) has always stuck. Maybe because I learned it when I was very young. Early primary school.

I’ve just looked up “quiz mnemonics” and there are lots that are good that I never knew. I just found “Do Men Ever Visit Britain” to help recall the order of seniority of nobility in the UK, thus: Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, Baron.

Cool.

I just missed the window for applying for Millionaire this time round, but this is the kind of stuff I need to be storing up and nailing down. I honestly think that going on that show is my last actual chance at later-life financial stability.

Maybe next year.

Anyway - here’s a bit of short-term gains for you with our four quizzes tonight:

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7pm – Brass Monkey Leith Walk (with me)
Jackpot – £50
Free answer - PICTURE round: "BATIK"
Book: 0131 554 5286 or Facebook or the Monkey's online booking system
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7.30 pm – Kitty O’Shea’s (with Bonni)
Jackpot – £50
Free answer - MUSIC round: "DEL AMITRI"
Book: 0131 226 2224 or Facebook or the Kitty’s online booking system
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8pm - Amber Rose (with Alan)
Jackpot – £150
Free answer: PICTURE round : "SANSKRIT"
Book: 0131 226 1224 or Facebook
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9pm – Brass Monkey Grange (with me)
Jackpot – £50
Free answer - PICTURE round: "POISON"
Book - 0131 667 2335
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With quiz and love,
Dr Paul

03/11/2024

I’m trying to write my novel. I’m on the second draft and it’s hard going. I have to fit my progress around being a full-time quizmaster. (More than full time, really).

So the attempted discipline is to do 30 minutes every morning. This really gets results. It’s sort of slow, but 30 minutes is so do-able that it always gets done and therefore the project moves forward, albeit slowly.

I was watching some old episodes of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire on YouTube this week (mostly Clarkson, some Tarrant) and the host always asks the contestant what they would do with the money.

Contestants’ answers always seems to involve foreign holidays. They want to go to Hawaii and Mexico and New York and so on. Fair enough, but it’s not for me. I’ve been abroad, and I’m happy with what I’ve seen. I don’t feel that I need to see more.

I would buy time. Time, Jeremy, time. I’d buy myself five years off to write all the stupid novels that I’ve thought of. Now give me some easy ones Jezza, you big Bottom Boil*.

See you tonight:

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4pm – Old Eastway Tap (with Bonni)
Jackpot – £90
Free answer - MUSIC round: "THE HERD"
Book: 0131 259 3495 or get in touch with them on Facebook
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6pm – Persevere (with me)
Jackpot – £30
Free answer - PICTURE round: "LEON RUSSELL"
Book: 0131 554 0271 or get in touch with them on Facebook
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6pm – Porty Vault (with Bonni)
Jackpot – £30
Free answer - PICTURE round: "QATAR"
Book: 0131 609 0810 or get in touch with them on Facebook
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8pm – Paradise Palms (with Bonni)
Jackpot – £50
Free answer - PICTURE round: "MONGOLIA"
Book: 0131 225 4186 or get in touch on their Facebook
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With quiz and love,
Dr Paul

*Cultural Reference:
Show: 'The Young Ones'
Episode: 'Bambi'

02/11/2024

Local all-seeing crab god

01/11/2024

Same letter round. Name all three. They all start with the same letter.

01/11/2024

So, the quiz at the Cross Borders Brewery is every fortnight.

We’re mainly into weekly quizzes so fortnightly is not what we’re used to, but the only thing inevitable in life is change itself.

This means I have to remember to do an email every second Friday. In the past, Friday has never been a quiz day so my Friday mornings have tended to be pretty loose after a Mon-Thu week of desk-intensity.

Typically on Fridays, I’ll do the dishes, clean the kitchen. Draw something. Maybe even go for a walk and end up getting a bacon roll somewhere.

As soon as I wake up and take a few seconds to work out what day it is, and I realise it’s Friday, the pressure is OFF. Happy reverie. A few empty hours. A loose pillowcase of a day.

But this life of ease and pleasure is at an end. Now I have to REMEMBER to do the email when it’s a quiz Friday. But look at me typing - I have remembered!

Then I have to think of something to write but it seems I’m four or five paragraphs into this already, so it looks like this email has written itself. Hey. Life’s not so bad.

All I have to add about the Crossborders gig tonight is that reports of the first quiz two weeks ago were positive. Brigid said the vibe was good. She’s sharing the gig with Isla, they’re taking turn-about, so it’ll be Isla in charge tonight and there was no jackpot winner two weeks ago, so you’re playing for A HUNDRED POUNDS tonight.

Yeah.

If you’re anywhere near Eskbank/Dalkeith, give it a go,.at the CrossBorders Brewery at Eskbank

Quiz tonight:
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7.30 pm – Cross Borders Brewery (with Isla)
Jackpot – £100
Free answer - MUSIC round: "AEROSMITH"
No bookings taken - Call pub 0131 629 3990 or Facebook
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With quiz and love,
Dr Paul

01/11/2024

And proudly aloft waves the red white and blue.

31/10/2024

Same letter round. All three start with the same letter. Can you name them?

31/10/2024

No context MEEP

31/10/2024

Same letter quiz. Name all three. They all start with the same letter.
Extra clue: One of them has two words - BOTH of which start with the same letter

31/10/2024

Alex at the Joker (not that Alex, the other one) told us yesterday about how his dog Max enjoys sh****ng a toy stuffed elephant at home.

He told us that Max has literally now literally shagged the stuffing out of this elephant.

He told us that the elephant started off life with a happy face but now has the kind of haunted visage which you only wear when you have war stories.

I asked if the elephant had a name. Alex said no, that would be too much. Too personal. Fair enough.

This is the kind of quality bar chat you miss out on when you don’t come to the pub. So come to the pub:

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7 pm – Brass Monkey Drummond St (with me)
Jackpot – £50
Free answer - MUSIC round: "CUMBAWAMBA"
No bookings taken - Call pub 031 556 1961 or Facebook
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7.30 pm – Fisherrow Tap (with Brigid)
Jackpot – £30
Free answer - PICTURE round: "BORIS KARLOFF"
Book - 031 259 5830 or Fisherrow Tap Facebook
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9pm – Newsroom (with me)
Jackpot – £100
Free answer - PICTURE round: "SALVADOR DALI"
Book: 0131 557 5286 or Newsroom online booking
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With quiz and love,
Dr Paul

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