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Arts & literature pub quiz questions and answers
- Who wrote the picture book ‘The Gruffalo’?
Answer: Julia Donaldson - Who wrote the novel "Oliver Twist"?
Answer: Charles Dickens - How many strings does a standard violin have?
Answer: Four - What is the opposite of "vertical"?
Answer: Horizontal - Which punctuation mark shows surprise or strong feeling?
Answer: Exclamation mark - What does it mean to ‘let the cat out of the bag’?
Answer: Reveal a secret - Which London gallery is housed in a former power station on the Thames?
Answer: Tate Modern - Which fictional nanny arrives in London carried by her umbrella?
Answer: Mary Poppins - Who painted "The Starry Night"?
Answer: Vincent van Gogh - What does the prefix "hydro-" refer to?
Answer: Water - Who wrote the novel War and Peace?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy - Who wrote the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four"?
Answer: George Orwell - Which artist painted "The Persistence of Memory", with melting clocks?
Answer: Salvador Dalí - Who wrote Moby-Dick?
Answer: Herman Melville - What is a word made by rearranging the letters of another called?
Answer: Anagram - Who composed "The Four Seasons"?
Answer: Antonio Vivaldi - Which Irish-born playwright wrote Pygmalion?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw - ‘Quarantine’ comes from the Italian for how many days?
Answer: Forty - What is an irrational fear of the number 13 called?
Answer: Triskaidekaphobia - Which architect remodelled the Royal Pavilion in Brighton?
Answer: John Nash
Britain pub quiz questions and answers
- Which duchy did William the Conqueror rule before he became king of England?
Answer: Normandy - What is 26 December called in the UK?
Answer: Boxing Day - On which date is Armistice Day, marking the end of WWI fighting?
Answer: 11 November - In which UK country are the Cairngorms?
Answer: Scotland - What is the London Underground often nicknamed?
Answer: The Tube - What does a school 'lollipop' person help children to do?
Answer: Cross the road - What is the nickname of the great bell in London's Elizabeth Tower?
Answer: Big Ben - What did the Romans call the city of London?
Answer: Londinium - In which city is the Royal Pavilion, a former royal palace with an Indian-style exterior?
Answer: Brighton - Which is the largest national park in England by area?
Answer: The Lake District - Which river flows through Liverpool?
Answer: Mersey - Which battle of 1314 saw Robert the Bruce defeat an English army?
Answer: Bannockburn - Which king ordered the Domesday survey of England in 1085?
Answer: William I - In which English county is Stonehenge?
Answer: Wiltshire - Which loch holds the greatest volume of water in Great Britain?
Answer: Loch Ness - Which Scottish island group includes Mainland and Hoy?
Answer: Orkney - Which loch is the deepest in the British Isles?
Answer: Loch Morar - Lewis and Harris is the largest island of which Scottish island group?
Answer: Outer Hebrides - Which 1832 Act abolished many 'rotten boroughs'?
Answer: The Great Reform Act - In which year did the United Kingdom join the European Economic Community?
Answer: 1973
Film, TV & music pub quiz questions and answers
- Which actor played Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean films?
Answer: Johnny Depp - Which British sitcom features the Trotter family of Peckham?
Answer: Only Fools and Horses - Which fantasy TV series is based on George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels?
Answer: Game of Thrones - Who was the lead singer of Queen?
Answer: Freddie Mercury - Which band released the 1969 album Abbey Road?
Answer: The Beatles - Which long-running BBC series features a time traveller who travels in the TARDIS?
Answer: Doctor Who - Which British actor played James Bond in Casino Royale (2006)?
Answer: Daniel Craig - Which band did Mick Jagger front from the 1960s?
Answer: The Rolling Stones - Which band released the album “Parklife” in 1994?
Answer: Blur - Which Russian composer wrote the ballet Swan Lake?
Answer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Which composer wrote the Ninth Symphony that includes the 'Ode to Joy'?
Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven - Which actor played Basil in the sitcom Fawlty Towers?
Answer: John Cleese - Which actor was the first to play James Bond on film, in Dr. No (1962)?
Answer: Sean Connery - Who sang the theme song for the 2012 Bond film “Skyfall”?
Answer: Adele - Which singer played the title role in the 1996 film “Evita”?
Answer: Madonna - Which music festival is held at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset?
Answer: Glastonbury - Which band released the 1973 album “The Dark Side of the Moon”?
Answer: Pink Floyd - Who directed the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey"?
Answer: Stanley Kubrick - Who directed the 1979 film “Apocalypse Now”?
Answer: Francis Ford Coppola - Which detective did David Suchet play on ITV from 1989 to 2013?
Answer: Hercule Poirot
Food & drink pub quiz questions and answers
- What is the currency of Japan?
Answer: Yen - Seville marmalade is made from which citrus fruit?
Answer: Orange - Which country is the dish paella traditionally from?
Answer: Spain - Which bean is the main ingredient of traditional baked beans?
Answer: Haricot (navy) beans - Which orange vegetable is said to help you see in the dark?
Answer: Carrot - Which dish is the traditional centrepiece of a Burns supper?
Answer: Haggis - Which country is sushi traditionally associated with?
Answer: Japan - Which bird is most often roasted for Christmas dinner in the UK?
Answer: Turkey - In Cockney rhyming slang, what does 'butcher's hook' mean?
Answer: A look - In Cockney rhyming slang, what does 'apples and pears' mean?
Answer: Stairs - Which spice is made from the dried stigmas of a type of crocus flower?
Answer: Saffron - A Yorkshire pudding is traditionally served as part of which meal?
Answer: Sunday roast - What is the main ingredient of hummus?
Answer: Chickpeas - On which date is St Andrew's Day celebrated?
Answer: 30 November - On which date is St David's Day celebrated?
Answer: 1 March - Which Indian bread is traditionally baked in a tandoor oven?
Answer: Naan - What is the currency of Poland?
Answer: Złoty
Geography pub quiz questions and answers
- What is the capital city of Poland?
Answer: Warsaw - Which ocean lies between the UK and the USA?
Answer: Atlantic - Which is the coldest continent on Earth?
Answer: Antarctica - Which canal links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through Central America?
Answer: Panama Canal - What is the highest mountain in Wales?
Answer: Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) - What is the capital city of France?
Answer: Paris - What is the capital city of Iran?
Answer: Tehran - Which is the largest ocean on Earth?
Answer: Pacific Ocean - Which body of water between Israel and Jordan is so salty that swimmers float easily?
Answer: The Dead Sea - Which country has the largest land area in the world?
Answer: Russia - What is the capital of the Australian state of Victoria?
Answer: Melbourne - In which country is the ancient city of Timbuktu?
Answer: Mali - Which river flows through Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade?
Answer: The Danube - What is the capital city of Brazil?
Answer: Brasília - In which country is the temple complex of Angkor Wat?
Answer: Cambodia - What is the capital city of Argentina?
Answer: Buenos Aires - Which is the driest non-polar desert on Earth, in northern Chile?
Answer: The Atacama Desert - What is the capital city of Nigeria?
Answer: Abuja - What is the capital city of Pakistan?
Answer: Islamabad - What is the highest mountain in Africa?
Answer: Kilimanjaro
History pub quiz questions and answers
- Who became Britain's first female prime minister in 1979?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher - Which ocean liner sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg?
Answer: Titanic - Which monarch reigned for 70 years, from 1952 to 2022?
Answer: Elizabeth II - Which US president was assassinated in Dallas in 1963?
Answer: John F. Kennedy - Which Greek city-state was famous for the agoge, a rigorous military training system for its boys, and for the 300 who fought at Thermopylae?
Answer: Sparta - Who gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963?
Answer: Martin Luther King - Queen Victoria was married to which prince?
Answer: Prince Albert - From which country did the USA declare independence in 1776?
Answer: Great Britain - The storming of which Paris fortress in 1789 began the French Revolution?
Answer: Bastille - In which year did the D-Day landings take place?
Answer: 1944 - In which year was Magna Carta sealed by King John?
Answer: 1215 - Who was the main author of the American Declaration of Independence?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson - Which 1962 Cold War crisis brought the US and USSR close to nuclear war?
Answer: The Cuban Missile Crisis - Which Portuguese explorer sailed from Europe to India by sea in 1498?
Answer: Vasco da Gama - In which year did the Russian Revolution take place that brought the Bolsheviks to power?
Answer: 1917 - Which Greek city-state is regarded as the birthplace of democracy?
Answer: Athens - Which statesman unified Germany in 1871 as its first chancellor?
Answer: Otto von Bismarck - Who led the Peasants' Revolt of 1381?
Answer: Wat Tyler - Who is generally regarded as Britain's first prime minister?
Answer: Robert Walpole - Which dynasty ruled Russia from 1613 until 1917?
Answer: Romanov
Science & nature pub quiz questions and answers
- Which gas do plants take in from the air to make food?
Answer: Carbon dioxide - Which part of a plant takes in water from the soil?
Answer: The roots - What do we call animals that eat only plants?
Answer: Herbivores - At sea level, at what temperature does water boil?
Answer: 100°C - To which animal group do dolphins belong?
Answer: Mammals - Which bones form a cage protecting the heart and lungs?
Answer: Ribs - What is the largest animal living on Earth today?
Answer: Blue whale - Which organ pumps blood around the body?
Answer: Heart - What is the largest living primate?
Answer: Gorilla - What is the largest organ of the human body?
Answer: Skin - What is the SI unit of electric current?
Answer: Ampere - How many bones are there in a typical adult human body?
Answer: 206 - Which type of blood cell carries oxygen around the body?
Answer: Red blood cells - Roughly how fast does light travel in a vacuum?
Answer: 300,000 km/s - Which scientist published On the Origin of Species in 1859?
Answer: Charles Darwin - What is the fastest land animal?
Answer: Cheetah - Which gas has the chemical formula O3?
Answer: Ozone - What is the largest living species of turtle?
Answer: Leatherback - Which land mammal has the longest pregnancy, lasting about 22 months?
Answer: African elephant - What is the largest living species of penguin?
Answer: Emperor penguin
Space pub quiz questions and answers
- Roughly how long does Earth take to spin once on its axis?
Answer: 24 hours - In which year did humans first land on the Moon?
Answer: 1969 - What travels from the Sun at about 186,000 miles per second?
Answer: Light - What is the name of the galaxy that contains our solar system?
Answer: The Milky Way - What is the name of the imaginary line of latitude at 0 degrees?
Answer: The Equator - What is the name of Earth's natural satellite?
Answer: The Moon - Which is the smallest planet in our Solar System?
Answer: Mercury - Roughly how long does Earth take to orbit the Sun?
Answer: 365 days - Which scale ranks the hardness of minerals from 1 to 10?
Answer: The Mohs scale - What was the Apollo 11 lunar module called?
Answer: Eagle - Who was the first human to travel into space?
Answer: Yuri Gagarin - Which comet returns to view roughly every 76 years?
Answer: Halley's Comet - What causes the seasons on Earth?
Answer: The tilt of the Earth's axis - Which space telescope was launched in 1990?
Answer: Hubble - Which Martian volcano is the largest known in the Solar System?
Answer: Olympus Mons - Which layer of the Earth lies between the crust and the core?
Answer: The mantle - Which Apollo mission first carried astronauts around the Moon, in 1968?
Answer: Apollo 8 - Which astronomer discovered the planet Uranus in 1781?
Answer: William Herschel - In which year did Halley's Comet last appear in Earth's skies?
Answer: 1986 - Which NASA probe flew past Pluto in 2015?
Answer: New Horizons
Sport pub quiz questions and answers
- In which sport would you find a wicket?
Answer: Cricket - At which circuit is the British Grand Prix held?
Answer: Silverstone - Which Grand Slam tennis tournament is played on grass in south-west London each summer?
Answer: Wimbledon - Which football club plays its home games at Anfield?
Answer: Liverpool - Which stadium is the national football stadium of England?
Answer: Wembley - How many players does each side have on the pitch in football?
Answer: Eleven - What colour medal is awarded for first place at the Olympics?
Answer: Gold - How many players from each team are on the pitch in a football match?
Answer: Eleven - Which Scottish town is known as the 'Home of Golf'?
Answer: St Andrews - What is the official distance of a marathon?
Answer: 26.2 miles - Which British player won the Wimbledon men's singles title in 2013?
Answer: Andy Murray - Which sport uses the terms "stone", "sheet" and "house"?
Answer: Curling - How many points is a try worth in rugby union?
Answer: Five - Which country hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Qatar - How long is an Olympic-size swimming pool?
Answer: 50 metres - How many players does a rugby union team have on the field?
Answer: 15 - Who scored a hat-trick in the 1966 World Cup final?
Answer: Geoff Hurst - Who was the first person to run a mile in under four minutes?
Answer: Roger Bannister - Which country won the first men's Cricket World Cup, in 1975?
Answer: West Indies - Which nation won the first Rugby Union World Cup in 1987?
Answer: New Zealand
Tech & maths pub quiz questions and answers
- Which company created the iPhone?
Answer: Apple - Which symbol starts a hashtag?
Answer: # - What is 100 divided by 4?
Answer: 25 - What is the perimeter of a square with 5cm sides?
Answer: 20cm - Which famous theorem relates the three sides of a right-angled triangle?
Answer: Pythagoras' theorem - Which Roman numeral stands for 10?
Answer: X - What is the word 'app' short for?
Answer: Application - Which video-sharing website did Google buy in 2006?
Answer: YouTube - What 3D shape has a circular base and tapers to a point?
Answer: Cone - Which 1972 Atari arcade game was based on table tennis?
Answer: Pong - Which language is used to style the appearance of web pages?
Answer: CSS - What is 13 multiplied by 7?
Answer: 91 - What is 9 cubed?
Answer: 729 - What is one eighth expressed as a percentage?
Answer: 12.5% - Which of these is both a square number and a cube number?
Answer: 64 - What is the square root of 144?
Answer: 12 - What is the square root of 625?
Answer: 25 - Which programming language is named after a 17th-century French mathematician?
Answer: Pascal - Which 1960s US network grew into the internet?
Answer: ARPANET - What is a software flaw exploited before any fix exists called?
Answer: Zero-day
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