QUIZ 007

QUIZ 007
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. Gennaro Pellicca has had his tongue insured for £10million, what’s his job title?

2. A Sealyham Terrier called Charmin was crowned best in show at Crufts in 2009, but which movie director owned 3 of the dogs called ‘Geoffrey’, ‘Stanley’ and ‘Mr Jenkins’?

3. Which roller-coaster first opened to the public on 4th April 1980, and completed its last circuit on 9th November 2008?

4. Who was the Democratic candidate in the 2004 US Presidential election?

5. What is the name of the actor who plays Merry in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Charlie in Lost?

6. Edward Lear is said to have written 212 of what type of poem?

7. Which cocktail was named after a surfer who used to get drunk and bump into things?

8. Which Monkee auditioned for the part of ‘the Fonz’ in Happy Days?

9. Where on a cowboy would you find a Rowel?

10. Oprah Winfrey got the name Oprah because of a misspelling on her birth certificate. What was her name supposed to have been?

11. Two footballers born in Ashton-Under-Lyme have won World Cup winner’s medals as players. Sir Geoff Hurst is one. What nationality is the other?

12. The world record is 56.9 seconds, held by Margo Uusorg and Sandra Kullos of Estonia, the course is 253.5 meters long and the world championships are always held in Finland. Name the sport.

Quiz 006 Answers

1. Alex Salmond
2. Beheaded
3. Paying Income Tax
4. Performed the Superbowl half time show
5. Go West
6. Parking Meter
7. Mercury
8. Mike Tyson
9. Boston
10. Schadenfreude
11. Dr Seuss
12. On the hash key, it’s another word for the hash symbol
13. A parachute
14. Nelson Mandela’s A Long Walk To Freedom

QUIZ 006

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

You can also follow us at www.twitter.com/internetpubquiz. If enough people start following, we'll start doing live pub quizzes over the internet.

1. Who is the current First Minister of Scotland?

2. Sarah, Duchess of York said ‘I am the only woman who has not been BLANK for leaving the Royal Family’. What word replaces the blank?

3. What did the Queen start doing on April 6th 1993?

4. Michael Jackson did it in 1992, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake did it in 2004 and Bruce Springsteen did it this year. What?

5. Which Pet Shop Boys hit has the same name as a Marx Brothers movie and an eighties pop band?

6. Which piece of roadside technology was invented by Carl McGee in 1935?

7. Which planet in the solar system has the longest day?

8. Mao Tse Tung, Arthur Ashe, Che Guevera and Dr Monica Turner are all tattoos sported by which former boxing champion?

9. Which American city has the nickname ‘Beantown’?

10. Which German term literally translates as Joy in Damage?

11. Which children’s author’s real name is Theodor Geisel?

12. Where on your mobile phone would you find the Octothorpe?

13. In 1808, Judaki Kuparento became the first person to have his life saved by what, when his balloon caught fire?

14. In a 2008 survey, which world leader’s autobiography was voted the number one book to own if you want to impress a woman?

QUIZ 005 Answers

Answers

1. Peter Finch
2. Pride (Men’s no. 1 sin is lust)
3. Stamps
4. Barney
5. Grub Street
6. Winter
7. The hotness of chillies
8. Nottingham Forest
9. The Arctic Circle
10. Steve Martin