QUIZ 004

Each week, I’ll post up a sample of the questions used in an actual Pub Quiz in Birmingham, UK. The answers will follow a week later. For information about the full six round quiz (which includes picture and music rounds) and how you can run it in your venue – email internetpubquiz@gmail.com

1. Comedian Peter Cook has been honoured with a plaque outside the club he used to run in Soho. What was it called?

2. Michelle Obama is to appear on the front cover of Vogue, becoming the second first lady to do so. Who was the first?

3. Which semi-mute American illusionists have published books entitled ‘How To Play In Traffic’, ‘How to Play with your Food’ and ‘Cruel tricks for Dear Friends’?

4. Which island is the largest of the Outer Hebrides?

5. In which country of the British Isles will you find the two parliamentary constituencies that are first and last alphabetically?

6. Which prize has been won by a flickering light, the inside of a Victorian terraced house and a shed that was turned into a boat and then back into a shed?

7. The Mariana Trench, the lowest point on the Earth’s crust, is located in which ocean?

8. What is the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger called?

9. In which type of shop would you find The Brannock Device?

10. Which pirate had a ship called Queen Anne’s Revenge?

11. In 1981, David Singmaster was the first person to publish a guide to solving what?

12. Which Scottish Football League Club’s name has an ‘r’ every third letter?