Welcome to our Pub Trivia Quiz
Quiz I
- How many American States start with the name 'New'?
- The lyrics of which UK number one song contains the title of the next number one song, but not its own title? (Hint: it was the seventies!)
- At what age did Borris Becker win his first Wimbledon and also Pele win his first World Cup?
- How many bones are there on a skull and crossbones flag?
- Often on television, what's the first name of Boris Johnson's father?
- Taphophobia is the irrational fear of what?
- Which large animal kills more people than any other large animal in Africa?
- What did Charles Julius Guiteau and Leon Czolgosz both infamously do?
- In which country is the most northernmost McDonald’s in the world?
- What are there more of, stars in the night sky or grains of sand in the world's deserts and beaches?
- True or false. The first name of Ghandi, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence, was Mohatma?
- The first item sold on eBay was: (a)a broken laser pointer, (b)a pocket watch stuck at ten past twelve, or (c)an old polaroid camera?
- Sold at auction for nearly 6 million pounds in 2011, who painted The Football Match?
- Which dynasty, ruled China proper from 1644 to 1912, and was the last imperial dynasty of China?
- There are four main blood groups, can you name them?
Answers:
- Four (New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, and New Hampshire)
- Bohemian Rhapsody (in 1975, and the next number one was ABBA's 'Mamma Mia')
- 17
- Three (the skull and two crossbones)
- Stanley
- Being burried alive
- Hippopotamus
- Assassinate U.S. Presidents
- Russia (in Murmansk)
- There are more stars in the night's sky (according to scientists)
- False (his first name was Mohandas. Mahatma is a honorific meaning "high-souled" or "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, and now used throughout the world)
- A broken laser pointer
- LS Lowry
- The Qing dynasty
- A, B, AB and O
Quiz II
- What is Australia's equivalent to the UK's 999 emergency number?
- If you read the end letters of the top row of a computer keyboard backwards, it spells which river?
- Which Apollo mission was the last to take a man to the moon?
- Literally meaning "angry" in Italian, which spicy sauce for pasta is made from garlic, tomatoes, and dried red chili peppers cooked in olive oil?
- What sort of maneuver, involves abdominal thrusts in a first aid procedure used to treat upper airway obstructions?
- The Parthenon, in Greece, is dedicated to which goddess?
- Which book holds the Guinness World Record for most novels sold within 24 hours of release?
- Which town in Cheshire is named after King Canute?
- Besides the USA, which two other countries share a land border with Mexico?
- Which famous director launched his directing career with the 1973 Hovis advert showing a young boy pushing a bike loaded with bread up a cobbled hill?
- Derived from the Latin word meaning 'forest' or 'woodland', what is the most popular last name in Portugal?
- What do American's call a real estate agent?
- According to the song, which building is at the end of Lonely Street?
- Investor George Soros, actress Zsa Zsa Gabor and escapologist Harry Houdini were all born in which city?
- In darts, what is the lowest score not possible to score with one dart?
Answers:
- 000 (triple zero)
- Po (Italy's longest river)
- 17 (Apollo 17)
- Arrabbiata sauce
- Heimlich maneuver
- Athena
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Knutsford (Knutsford was recorded in the William the Conqueror's Domesday Book of 1086 as Cunetesford ("Canute's ford"))
- Guatemala and Belize
- Ridley Scott
- Silva
- A realtor
- Heartbreak Hotel (by Elvis Presley)
- Budapest
- 23
Trivia III
- Robert Kardashian, an American attorney who gained fame as O. J. Simpson's defence attorney during the 1995 murder trial, had how many children with his first wife, Kris?
- Whose autobiography is entitled Long Walk to Freedom?
- Caryn Elaine Johnson is one of the few entertainers to have won an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award; by what name is she professionally known?
- What was the last name of John, who created a hat based on his experiences in the American West, which he called the "Boss of the Plains"?
- The Grand Union Canal in England starts in London and ends in which city?
- After which 20th century person is Cristiano Ronaldo named?’
- Who owned a Morris Minor convertible, called 'Miriam'?
- In which city were composers Brahms and Mendelssohn born and the Beatles came of age?
- What star sign would you be if you were born on St. George's Day?
- What is the non-emergency number to call the police in the UK when it's less urgent than a 999 call?
- In which country is the Angel Falls, the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall?
- Which two African cities, can see each other across the wide Congo River, making them the world's second-closest pair of capital cities after Rome and Vatican City?
- In Cockney rhyming slang terms how much money is a 'pony'?
- How old was William Shakespeare when Henry VIII (8th) died: (a)he was not born, (b)5, or (c)19?
- What name is given to the device that fastens the neckerchief worn as part of the Scout or Girl Guides uniform?
Answers:
- Four (Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, and Rob, of Keeping Up with the Kardashians fame
- Nelson Mandela
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Stetson
- Birmingham
- Ronald Regan
- Lovejoy
- Hamburg
- Taurus (St. George's Day is on April 23)
- 101
- Venezuella
- Brazzaville and Kinshasa
- £25 (Twenty five pounds)
- (a)he was not born (Shakespeare was born in 1564 and Henry VIII died in 1547)
- A woggle
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