This week we were all SO EXCITED about England romping to victory against Italy in Euro 2012, we didn't have time for the quiz.

Unfortunately England did the usual at the penalty stage and also unfortunate is the fact the Final is next Sunday, so yes thing to do would seem to be have the week off!

The quiz returns Sun 8th July! 

See you then...

At The Beef this week a large number of Germans who were delighted with a win over Denmark. Less happy were the Dutch guys who witnessed both their teams Holland AND the Netherlands crash out. How unfortunate that both their teams should lose on the same night. What are the chances!

Amongst the Quiz teams too, there were the winners and the losers. Emulating the success of Germany was Team IAIN who won a case of glass bottles to chuck at the Foo Fighters when they go to Leeds festival. Aim well and throw hard kittens.

Thanks for Cummin were the most rudely named team since there was a world record amount of underagers in, as a result the playlist switched from Rage Against The Machine to a kids Tv mega-mix including such greats as Tellytubbies and Dangermouse. Rock on! 

The Very Nice Pirates reflected the new average age in their PG rated team name. A most unusual state of affairs. This extended beyond Team Hi! exiting early for bedtime stories leaving Thanks for Cummin to get the round of applause for finishing last.

Despite having 2 job interviews in Edinburgh the next day Gavin from Zlatan and The Turnips showed his hardcore quiz credentials by staying to the end so he could step up to take on The Beast's cash question. Unfortunately poor unemployed Gav got beat by The Beast. Oh dear. It means he'll stink of booze at his interviews tomorrow - but I'm sure they will understand when he explains it's a £100+ rollover situation at the quiz next week!

See you next time

Sir James

Sir James is BACK in The Beef tonight.

...and if you aren't interested in winning the £100+ rollover, there's a Denmark/Germany & Portugal/Netherlands double whammy too!

I've got Ben E King in the Showbiz round, Europe's largest volcano, a rocky road to Poland and this delicious tasty morsel in the picture round - if you can work out what it is....

The fun starts about 8pm, and I promise not to mention anything about how much fun I had at Rockness last week. Honestly, I will not mention Rockness once I promise.

See ya later as I am back from Rockness

Chowmein

Sir James

It was a funtastic night at the Beefeater last Sunday, with the beefiest of Quizmasters - that's me! - Quizguy Martin.

With a host of teams turning up, it was up to me to try and instigate some sort of control of what has clearly turned out to be the venue to be on a Sunday night. In Milngavie. At 8:00pm. Called the Beefeater.

Lesley Chow took down the quiz overall with some clever play in the Negatively Marked Final Round answering just 4 questions, but tanking them all.

Very nice work lads.

Gary came up to try my horn (more on that later...) and did so with consummate ease. That left him with The Beast's Question to answer a question for a pretty healthy jackpot of over £100, but he failed and looked liked a proper Country, as that's what the question was on.

Lesley Chow also won the Fun Round with...

I was seeing a cross-eyed girl but ended up dumping her. The bitch was seeing other people.

LOL!

It was The Maryhillbillies won the coveted Round of Applause, an award given only to the team that finishes in last place, and they seemed pretty chuffed that they won something at least.

Right... The Great Horn Debacle!  One team, namely The Snatch Pirates, took umbrage to the fact that I

1. Gave Gary from Lesley Chow a trial toot on the horn once he agreed he was doing that over the cairds
   
2. Only asked him to blow said horn for 10 seconds
   

They argued that Sir James "Lord of the Quiz" never allows a practice and would ask for a blowing time of at least 15 seconds.

To The Snatch Pirates I say this, "Do I look like a small, bald Englishman?" I think you'll find I don't, which means I can do things a little differently.

I will look to change the blowing time to 15 seconds in future though. It's not like I'm Kim Jong-il or anything. I'm taller and my birth was heralded by the appearance of a triple rainbow across the sky over the mountain and two new stars in the heavens.

More money added to the jackpot next week and Sir James will have returned by then.

He'll see you next Sunday at 8 o'clock.

At night.

Fact.