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?
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
What is the biggest cat species in the world?
What is the world’s fastest bird?
What is the process by which plants convert sunlight to energy?
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.
General Knowledge
The numbers on the opposite sides of a six-sided die always add up to what number?
What was the name of the world’s first artificial satellite?
In what year did cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin reach space?
Where did backgammon originate?
What is England’s official national sport?
Since the 1970s in which country has it been a tradition to eat fried chicken from KFC on Christmas Day?
Here are the answers to this month’s six quiz questions. If in doubt, all should be able to be easily verified online.
British History
In what year was the Battle of Culloden? 1746
How many monarchs reigned during the 19th century? 4 – George III, George IV, William IV, Victoria
Who, in 1835, produced durable silver chloride camera negatives on paper and conceived the two-step negative-positive procedure used in most non-electronic photography up to the present? Henry Fox Talbot
Charles Dodgson is remembered as an early photographer, but what else is he famous for? The Alice in Wonderland books (as Lewis Carroll)
In what year was slavery abolished in the British empire? 1838
What links playing cards in 1588; windows in 1696; candles in 1709; wallpaper in 1712? All were taxed starting in those years
Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.
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