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June Quiz Questions

Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As always, they’re designed to be difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so have a bit of fun.

World Affairs

  1. Which political figure became Baroness of Kesteven?
  2. What year was the United Nations established?
  3. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus became the head of which United Nations agency in 2017?
  4. Who was US President in the year 2000?
  5. What was the name of the treaty signed between the Allies and Germany that officially ended WWI?
  6. The border between North Korea and South Korea is about 257km long and 4km wide. What is this buffer zone known as?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.

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May 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.

General Knowledge (2)

  1. What is a grimoire? A textbook of magic, typically including instructions on creating magical objects, performing spells & divination, and summoning supernatural entities
  2. Which British coin was introduced in February 1971 and withdrawn from circulation in December 1984? Half New Penny
  3. The wood of a cricket bat is traditionally from which type of tree? Willow
  4. In the United States, who is second in presidential line of succession after the Vice President? The Speaker of the House of Representatives
  5. Which film concerns the declaration of war by Freedonia against neighbouring Sylvania? Duck Soup
  6. The Velocipede was a nineteenth-century prototype of what? The bicycle

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.

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May Quiz Questions

Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As always, they’re designed to be difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so have a bit of fun.

General Knowledge (2)

  1. What is a grimoire?
  2. Which British coin was introduced in February 1971 and withdrawn from circulation in December 1984?
  3. The wood of a cricket bat is traditionally from which type of tree?
  4. In the United States, who is second in presidential line of succession after the Vice President?
  5. Which film concerns the declaration of war by Freedonia against neighbouring Sylvania?
  6. The velocipede was a nineteenth-century prototype of what?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.

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January Quiz Answers

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

General Knowledge (1)

  1. What type of clothing is a Glengarry? Hat or bonnet
  2. Which country features a shipwreck on its national flag? Bermuda
  3. Which two months of the year are named for mortal men? July and August
  4. Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire is famous for which two foods? Stilton Cheese, Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
  5. Name the type of rigid airship, first flown commercially in 1910, and carrying many thousands of fare-paying passengers before WWI? Zeppelin
  6. Benjamin Disraeli once described William Ewart Gladstone as “A sophistical rhetorician, _____ with the exuberance of his own verbosity”. What is the missing word? Inebriated

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.

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January Quiz Questions

Again this year, each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As always, they’re designed to be difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so have a bit of fun.

General Knowledge (1)

  1. What type of clothing is a Glengarry?
  2. Which country features a shipwreck on its national flag?
  3. Which two months of the year are named for mortal men?
  4. Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire is famous for which two foods?
  5. Name the type of rigid airship, first flown commercially in 1910, and carrying many thousands of fare-paying passengers before WWI?
  6. Benjamin Disraeli once described William Ewart Gladstone as “A sophistical rhetorician, _____ with the exuberance of his own verbosity”. What is the missing word?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.

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May Quiz Answers

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

General Knowledge

  1. Which long distance train had its first run in October 1883?  Orient Express
  2. With 158 separate stanzas, which nation is considered to have the longest national anthem in the world?  Greece
  3. Which of the following sauces is NOT traditionally vegan: Hoisin, Worcestershire, Mustard, Wasabi?  Worcestershire
  4. Over 500 million of the Flying Pigeon PA-02 bicycles have been made, many times more than any other bicycle. But what country owns the Flying Pigeon brand?  China
  5. The Goodwin Sands is a large sandbank off the coast of Kent. What game was played there, at low tide, every year until 2003?  Cricket

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2023.

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May Quiz Questions

Each month we’re posing five pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As before, they’re not difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so hopefully you’ll learn something new, as well as having a bit of fun.

General Knowledge

  1. Which long distance train had its first run in October 1883?
  2. With 158 separate stanzas, which nation is considered to have the longest national anthem in the world?
  3. Which of the following sauces is NOT traditionally vegan: Hoisin, Worcestershire, Mustard, Wasabi?
  4. Over 500 million of the Flying Pigeon PA-02 bicycles have been made, many times more than any other bicycle. But what country owns the Flying Pigeon brand?
  5. The Goodwin Sands is a large sandbank off the coast of Kent. What game was played there, at low tide, every year until 2003?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.