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.
People
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Who is often credited with creating the world’s first car?
The name of which British prince is often used to describe a pierced manhood?
Who was married to John F Kennedy and was first lady from 1961 until 1963?
Name the author: He was born in Dublin in 1854, and died in Paris in 1900.
Although more well-known for his fiction and character creations, what famous author was also an ophthalmologist? He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh in the 1870s, was a determined supporter of compulsory vaccination, and partially based his most famous character on a former university teacher.
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
How many faces does a Dodecahedron have?
What is the cube root of 64?
The Sun is (of course) the closest star to Earth. What star is the next closest?
Who discovered that the Earth revolves around the sun?
What is the chemical symbol for the element mercury?
How is the Earth protected from the effects of Solar Winds from the Sun?
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
Which Italian city is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet set?
Which of the following did not live entirely in the 19th century: Lermontov; Tolstoy; Dostoevsky?
What is the name of the snake in The Jungle Book?
Winston Smith is the protagonist of which George Orwell novel?
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?
Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against author Salman Rushdie after the publication of what 1989 novel that mocked the prophet Muhammad?
