Pub Quiz Questions

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Round 1 - General Knowledge Round

1. What is the world’s largest land mammal?

2. Rio de Janeiro is a city in which South American country?

3. Which Middle Eastern city is also the name of a type of artichoke?

4. With which sport is Silverstone most associated?

5. Nostradamus was famous for making what?

6. In mythology, Romulus and Remus were brought up by which animal?

7. What is the main source of vitamin C?

8. Insulin is commonly used to treat which condition?

9. The first atom bomb was dropped on which Japanese city?

10. What is dermatophobia the fear of?

11. The Velocipede was a nineteenth-century prototype of what?

12. Which is Britain’s oldest Sunday newspaper, published for the first time in 1791?

13. What was the middle name of Wolfgang Mozart?

14. What is the art of stuffing animals for preservation?

15. The term bhp is used when describing the power of a motor vehicle; for what
does it stand?

16. What is Prince William’s second name?

17. Who invented the Flying Shuttle in 1733?

18. What does a Geiger Counter measure?

19. If you were an LLD, what profession would you be involved in?

20. How many of Henry VIII’s wives were called Anne?

Round 2 - Sports Round
1. The traditional Claret Jug is the trophy awarded to the winner of which annual
sporting event?

2. Who, in 1991, became the first driver to win the first four races of a Formula
One grand prix season?

3. Which former England football international goalkeeper of the 1940s became a

journalist and was killed in the Manchester United Munich air disaster?

4. Tennis. The two girls who won the women’s doubles for the USA at the 1992
Olympic Games had the same surname. What name?

5. In which country did the first Football World Cup finals take place in 1930?

6. Cricket. In 1995, Jack Russell took how many catches in a Test to create a new
world record?

7. What was the nationality of Eugenio Monti, a bobsleigh driver who won 11
world titles?

8. In 2012 Lewis Hamilton announced he was leaving McLaren to drive for which
other Formula 1 team?

9. Who was declared the Sportsman of the Century in 1999 by both the prestigious
US magazine ‘Sports Illustrated’ and the BBC?

10. Which country is regarded as the primary practitioner of the game of polo?

11. Who has scored a record 277 points in Rugby World Cup football?

12. Who scored both goals in the final as Manchester United lifted Alex Ferguson’s
first European trophy in 1991?

13. Golf: Which country will host the 2018 Ryder Cup, the first time the competition
has been held there?

14. What is the name of the two Ukrainian brothers who have held boxing World
Heavyweight titles in the twenty-first century?

15. Who was the first black player to play in baseball’s major leagues in 1947 and for
which side?

16. Which country staged the last FIFA World Cup Final of the 20th century outside
Europe?
Round 3 - Music Round – Guess the Lyrics
1. ‘With the lights out, it’s less dangerous. Here we are now, entertain us.’

2. ‘Love forever, love is free, let’s turn forever you and me. Windmill, windmill for
the land. Is everybody in?’

3. ‘Rent a flat above a shop, cut your hair and get a job. Smoke some fags and play
some pool, pretend you never went to school.’

4. ‘You must understand though, the touch of your hand makes my pulse react.’

5. ‘When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me.’

6. ‘Mutual misunderstanding after the fact. Sensitivity builds a prison in the final
act.’

7. ‘No clouds in my storms, let it rain, I hydroplane into fame.’

8. ‘I’m in California dreaming about who we used to be. When we were younger
and free, I’ve forgotten how it felt before the world fell at our feet’

9. ‘Living easy, living free, season ticket on a one-way ride.’

10. ‘I got this feeling inside my bones, It goes electric, wavey when I turn it on.’

11. ‘Scare myself to death, That’s why I keep on running; Before I’ve arrived, I can
see myself coming’

12. ‘This love has taken its toll on me; She said goodbye too many times before’

13. ‘But I don’t care what they say, I’m in love with you; They try to pull me away,
but they don’t know the truth’

14. ‘I’m never gonna dance again, Guilty feet have got no rhythm’

15. ‘No New Year’s Day to celebrate, No chocolate covered candy hearts to give
away’
Round 4 - Movie/TV Round
1. Which British actor died whilst still filming his supporting role in Ridley Scott’s
Gladiator?

2. ‘The Godfather’ was released in 1972; who played the title role?

3. What is the name of the villain in the first Superman movie (1980) played by
Gene Hackman?

4. Which British actor won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for his work in the HBO
drama series ‘Homeland’?

5. Who plays a predatory femme fatale and the FBI agent tracking her down in the
1987 thriller ‘Black Widow’?

6. ‘God Bless America’ was a 2012 movie made by which comic film-maker and
actor?

7. Which film concerns the declaration of war by Freedonia against neighbouring

Sylvania?

8. Who starred in the defining 1958 Hammer Horror version of Dracula as the
urbane but terrifying Count, and who played his nemesis, Van Helsing?

9. What is the name of the possessed girl played by Linda Blair in ‘The Exorcist’?

10. Which influential and controversial 1970s thriller starring Clint Eastwood
featured a serial killer called Scorpio

11. Who won an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of American activist Malcolm X?

12. Which two actors have played Spider-Man in Hollywood versions of the story in
the twenty-first century?

13. Who was I in the ‘I Am Legend’?

14. What was Alex Haley’s slave drama, screened in the 1970s and still one of the
most watched dramas in the US TV history?

15. Which TV show detailed the planned invasion of earth by an alien force called
the ‘Visitors’?

16. Which Bruce starred in “Die Hard”?

17. Who played James Bond in “For Your Eyes Only”?

Round 5 - History Round
1. 1 August 1990 saw 100,000 Iraqi troops invade which neighbouring state,
sparking off the first Gulf War?

2. On 19 August 1968, Soviet tanks rolled into which country?

3. In which month of which year did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour?

4. Which empire, led by which charismatic general, conquered a vast part of

Europe (Hungary, most of Ukraine, much of Germany and Poland and parts of
the Balkans) in the fifth century, before the empire dissolved just as quickly after
the death of the leader?

5. In which year did the Battle of Waterloo take place?

6. Which volcano erupted in 1906, causing huge damage and over 100 deaths in
the city of Naples?

7. Whose rebel army threw the Spanish out of Venezuela in 1821?

8. Which country became the first to give women the vote in 1893?

9. Which city was the first capital of the Russian Empire in the ninth century?
a)Yeliky Novgorod b)Omsk c)St Petersburg

10. Who led the Galic tribes in their resistance to Julius Caesar’s Roman legions?

11. Who was Prime Minister when Britain joined the European Union?

12. The Soviet Union and seven other countries signed which mutual assistance
treaty in 1955?

13. Who was the Scottish general, with his Coldstream Guards, who was
instrumental in the restoration of Charles II as monarch in 1660?

14. What was the first perforated UK postage stamp, issued in 1854?

15. What name is given to 8 May to mark the unconditional surrender of the
German Army at the end of World War II?

16. Which country was invaded during Operation Barbarossa?

17. What was the nationality of dancer Mata Hari, shot as spy?
Round 6 - Science Round
1. Roughly what proportion of their DNA do humans and chimpanzees share: 77%,
92% or 98.5% ?

2. What name is given to a biological process that sets itself naturally to a 24 hours
cycle?

3. Which side of the brain would be mostly used to evaluate whether a new
wardrobe fits into the space available in a bedroom?

4. What was the name of the spaceship from which the final lunar landing took
place and in which year was it?

5. The chemical symbol Y denotes which uncommon metal?

6. Particle accelerators were first devised so scientists could reproduce what

conditions?

7. What is the measure of electrical charge?

8. An absence of the SRY gene means what for a human being?

9. What typically makes up between 0.5% and 3% of the dry weight of tobacco?

10. What is the hard, set polymer used in old-fashioned telephones and electrical
insulators?

11. What is the third most common gas in the earth’s atmosphere after Nitr0gen
and Oxygen?

12. Zn is the symbol of which chemical element?

13. Who gave his name to a unit of radioactivity?

14. Who is best known for his theory of black holes?

15. Which English chemist discovered the most elements?

Round 1 - General Knowledge Answers
1. Elephant
2. Brazil
3. Jerusalem
4. Motor Racing
5. Predictions
6. Wolf
7. Fruits
8. Diabetes
9. Hiroshima
10. The fear of skin disease
11. A bicycle
12. Observer
13. Amadeus
14. Taxidermy
15. Brake horse power
16. Arthur
17. John Kay
18. Radiation
19. The legal profession (Doctor of Law)
20. Two – Anne Boleyn and Anne of Cleves

Round 2 - Sports Round Answers

1. (British) Open (Golf) Championship
2. Ayrton Senna
3. Frank Swift
4. Fernandez
5. Uruguay
6. 11
7. Italian
8. Mercedes
9. Muhammad Ali
10. Argentina
11. Jonny Wilkinson
12. Mark Hughes
13. France (Le Golf National, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, near Paris)
14. Vitaly and Wladimir Klitschko
15. Jackie Robinson – played for Brooklyn Dodgers
16. USA
Round 3 - Music Round Answers
1. Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc.
3. Pulp – Common People
4. Tina Turner – What’s Love Got do to With
5. The Beatles – Let it Be
6. Elton John – Sacrifice
7. Rihanna ft. Jay-Z – Umbrella
8. Adele – Hello
9. AC/DC – Highway to Hell
10. Justin Timberlake – Can’t Stop the Feeling
11. Robin Williams – Feel
12. Maroon 5 – This Love
13. Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love
14. George Michael – Careless Whisper
15. Stevie Wonder – I Just Called To Say I Love You

Round 4 - Movie/TV Round Answers

1. Oliver Reed
2. Marlon Brando
3. Lex Luthor
4. Damien Lewis
5. Teresa Russell and Debra Winger
6. Bobcat Goldthwait
7. Duck Soup
8. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing
9. Regan
10. Dirty Harry
11. Denzel Washington
12. Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield
13. Will Smith
14. Roots
15. V (1983 miniseries)
16. Willis
17. Roger Moore
Round 5 - History Round Answers

1. Kuweit
2. Czechoslovakia
3. December 1941
4. The Huns, led by Attila
5. 1815
6. Mount Vesuvius
7. Simon Bolivar
8. New Zealand
9. a) Yeliky Novgorod
10. Vercingetorix
11. Ted Heath
12. Warsaw Pact
13. General George Monck
14. Penny Red
15. VE Day
16. USSR
17. Dutch

Round 6 - Science Round Answers

1. 98.5%
2. Circadian rhythm
3. Right side
4. Apollo 17 in 1972
5. Yttrium
6. Those of the Big Bang
7. Coulomb
8. It means the human is a she (the presence of the sex-determining region Y gene
is the specific factor which leads to maleness in mammals)
9. Nicotine
10. Bakelite
11. Argon
12. Zinc
13. Bequerel (previously Curie, after Marie Curie) – thanks Károly Cseh!
14. Stephen Hawking
15. Humphry Davy