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April Quiz Questions

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Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month.
As always, they’re designed to be tricky but not impossible, so it’s unlikely everyone will know all the answers – just have a bit of fun.

Physical Science & Mathematics

  1. How many faces does a Dodecahedron have?
  2. What is the cube root of 64?
  3. The Sun is (of course) the closest star to Earth. What star is the next closest?
  4. Who discovered that the Earth revolves around the sun?
  5. What is the chemical symbol for the element mercury?
  6. How is the Earth protected from the effects of Solar Winds from the Sun?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.

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March Quiz Questions

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Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month.
As always, they’re designed to be tricky but not impossible, so it’s unlikely everyone will know all the answers – just have a bit of fun.

Literature

  1. Which Italian city is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet set?
  2. Which of the following did not live entirely in the 19th century: Lermontov; Tolstoy; Dostoevsky?
  3. What is the name of the snake in The Jungle Book?
  4. Winston Smith is the protagonist of which George Orwell novel?
  5. Agatha Christie’s By the Pricking of My Thumbs and Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes are two novels who take their titles from lines in what Shakespeare play?
  6. Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against author Salman Rushdie after the publication of what 1989 novel that mocked the prophet Muhammad?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.

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February Quiz Answers

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Here are the answers to this month’s six quiz questions. If in doubt, all should be able to be easily verified online.

Biology

  1. What is the biggest cat species in the world? Siberian Tiger
  2. What is the world’s fastest bird? Peregrine falcon
  3. What is the process by which plants convert sunlight to energy? Photosynthesis
  4. How many eyes does a bee have? Five
  5. How many bones does a shark have? None (a shark’s skeleton is made entirely of cartilage)
  6. What colours are flamingos born? Grey

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2025.

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February Quiz Questions

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Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month.
As always, they’re designed to be tricky but not impossible, so it’s unlikely everyone will know all the answers – just have a bit of fun.

Biology

  1. What is the biggest cat species in the world?
  2. What is the world’s fastest bird?
  3. What is the process by which plants convert sunlight to energy?
  4. How many eyes does a bee have?
  5. How many bones does a shark have?
  6. What colours are flamingos born?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.