# help with a Pub quiz **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2001, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-pub-quiz/93729 "2001-11-16T14:39:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yastobaal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/258eb7/32.png) [@yastobaal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yastobaal)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-pub-quiz/93729/1 "2001-11-16T14:39:33Z")
A mate and i decided to help out with a pub quiz in two weeks time as the normal runners are unable to help. But we’ve been having trouble thinking up questions as we’re both 20 years old and thus not having that much life experince. If any of you dopers can help with some questions it will all be gratefully received. Matt ---
**Author:** ![Gartog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/22d042/32.png) [@Gartog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gartog)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-pub-quiz/93729/2 "2001-11-16T15:08:07Z")
This may be of no use whatsoever (is that really a single word?) but there are loads of pub quiz books about. Try searching on Amazon. [sub]This post brought to you by the completley useless post co[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![ashtayk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@ashtayk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ashtayk)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-pub-quiz/93729/3 "2001-11-16T15:30:47Z")
there are tons of questions available on the net that you can use. welcome.to/kqa surf into the quizzes sections and check out loads of questions. Many of them deal with India but there are enough and more on other stuff to take care of some 10 quizzes. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-pub-quiz/93729/4 "2001-11-16T17:43:35Z")
I’ve set quite a few pub quizzes, **yastobaal** , and have found that the best questions are ones that people have to think about, but feel they ought to know, so it’s a good idea to include one or two topical ones. Keep an eye on the news, especially in the few days before your quiz, and get a couple of questions from that. I can’t tell from your profile where in the world you are, but some of these might be alright if you’re in the UK. I’ll post the answers in a couple of days to let people here have a go at answering them (and good luck). 1. Which continental land mass has the larger area – Australia or Antarctica? 2. Which city is home to the football teams Boca Juniors and Independiente? 3. What does an ammeter measure? 4. Which number of Beethoven’s symphonies is called The Choral? 5. Who sang the signature tune for One Foot in the Grave? 6. What word is used for the pouch traditionally worn in front of a kilt? 7. Which famous guitarist established himself as Jimmy James with his band The Blue Flames? 8. Who won the first ever FA Cup Final played at Wembley Stadium? 9. What dish consists of smoked haddock, flaked into rice with hard-boiled eggs? 10. What was Mussolini’s first name? 11. Which British-born horror writer created the story upon which the Hellraiser films were based? 12. Why was Desert Orchid not expected to make any money at stud after he finished racing? 13. In which city would you live if your postcode began with SW? 14. In The Great Escape, who played the part of Blythe, the forger who went blind? 15. What is the value of the pink/red banknote in Monopoly? 16. What medical condition is epistaxis another name for? 17. “Wool sorters’ disease” is a traditional name for which serious medical condition? 18. Name either of the cricketers who have withdrawn from England’s tour of India? 19. Which country has borders with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia? 20. What is the name of the dip made from puréed chick peas, lemon and garlic? 21. Whose suicide note contained the comment “It’s better to burn out than to fade away”? 22. Who was the central character in Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho? 23. Which is the sixth furthest planet from the sun? 24. Whose books include Where Eagles Dare, Ice Station Zebra and The Guns of Navarone? 25. Which English football team was the first to win the FA Cup and League double? 26. What hat is named after the Spanish word for shadow? 27. In which modern country is the place where the Buddha gave his first sermon? 28. What unit of British currency was removed from circulation in 1961, and was the same size as a modern penny? 29. In the Manx TT Motorcycle Races, what does TT stand for? 30. What was the profession of Frenchman Auguste Escoffier? 31. In the film The Usual Suspects, whose character turned out to be the mysterious Keyser Soze? 32. Which of the United States comes first if listed alphabetically? 33. Which comic actress played the part of Denise in The Royle Family? 34. Without looking, is the silver-coloured part of a £2 coin near the centre or the edge? 35. The extinct mastodon belonged to the same family as which modern animal? 36. Who or what were Fat Man and Little Boy in 1945? 37. Of which country is Basher al-Assad the president? 38. Which spiced currant bun wound into a spiral is named after a district of London? 39. Which Dutch club won the European Cup three times between 1971 and 1973? 40. As seen in film credits, what is the gaffer’s job? 41. Which is the lightest of all the elements? 42. The mythical Minotaur was half and half of which two living things? 43. At which ground does the Ireland Rugby Union team play its home matches? 44. ‘Alef’, ‘bet’ and ‘gimel’ are letters in the alphabet of which language? 45. Which album sleeve is the best-known work of artist Peter Blake? 46. What is the only even prime number? 47. What English language term do we use for what the French call le Régiment Étranger? 48. He is captain of the Black Pig and his arch enemy is Cutthroat Jake. Who? 49. In which country is Mount Kilimanjaro? 50. Which soap opera features families called the Tates, the Sugdens and the Dingles? 51. In which county are Market Harborough and Melton Mowbray? 52. What did Colonel Thomas Blood attempt to steal in 1671? 53. From which platform at which station would you need to leave for Hogwart’s School? 54. What word is formed from combining the chemical symbols for potassium, nickel and iron? 55. What is the fifth book of the New Testament? 56. In Roman numerals, what is the result of D divided by L? 57. What colour is Whitechapel Road on a Monopoly board? 58. Which hell-raising actor died during the making of Gladiator? 59. Is a dunnock a type of loaf, a bird or a small hill? 60. What word can go before bag, partner or pill to form a recognised phrase? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-pub-quiz/93729/5 "2001-11-16T17:50:51Z")
is this some kind of limey thing? ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-pub-quiz/93729/6 "2001-11-16T18:03:55Z")
I love a good pub quiz. Good tip is NOT to make it too hard. Try to have one or two questions in a round that seperates the men/women from the boys/girls but also make sure that the rest of the crowd can answer some of the questions. You want people to enjoy themselves not feel stupid. **everton** nice selection of questions. **Briker** has a challenger 😉 ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-pub-quiz/93729/7 "2001-11-16T21:05:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gatopescado \* > \*\*is this some kind of limey thing? \*\* Up to a point I s’pose (although **yojimbo** ain’t no limey 🙂 ). Sometimes you’ll find a Quiz Night advertised in a pub as a gimmick to get customers in. Other times you may have a karaoke night or a pub games competition. Most often there will be a prize – say a gallon of beer for the highest score in the house and a cash prize if you get 100%. There was a pub in Sheffield where my mate and I didn’t buy a pint for a whole year 'cos we kept winning freebies. In some areas there are even quiz leagues organised by the local brewery. Several pubs in a city will nominate teams of, say, four people to answer general knowledge questions against rival teams. They’ve even had televised competitions. It’s just the way “local” pubs operate – they nominate football teams, darts teams, pool teams etc. too. Regular customers sometimes even form a community around these organised activities. Typically the quiz questions are set by the landlord or a volunteer, but there was another place in Sheffield (White Lion, Chesterfield Road) where the “prize” for winning one week included setting and reading out next week’s quiz! That’s where I got my practice at setting them. ---
**Author:** ![Hemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Hemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hemlock)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-pub-quiz/93729/8 "2001-11-17T01:57:41Z")
I used to set questions for pub quizzes held on a message board. Here you go… 1. Who was the youngest ever US President? 2. In which English town was “Goodbye Mr Chips” shot? 3. Why does the Pentagon have twice as many toilets as a building of its size needs? 4. What is omphaloskepsis? 5. “The woods are lonely, dark and deep/But I have promises to keep/And miles to go before I sleep/And miles to go before I sleep” Writer and title? 6. How many eyes does a bee have? 7. Of the 7 questions in this quiz, which one is the preantepenultimate? More, if you can bear it, at… [http://www.icered.com/work/corporate\_m\_view.asp?Topic\_ID=7748](http://www.icered.com/work/corporate_m_view.asp?Topic_ID=7748) [http://www.icered.com/work/corporate\_m\_view.asp?Topic\_ID=7889](http://www.icered.com/work/corporate_m_view.asp?Topic_ID=7889) ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-pub-quiz/93729/9 "2001-11-17T13:14:57Z")
Jeez, **Hemlock** , you’re a hard man – remind me to be on your team! I’d suggest those might be too tough for most pubs, **yastobaal** , but you’re the boss. Anyway, here are my guesses: 1. Who was the youngest ever US President? **John F. Kennedy** 2. In which English town was “Goodbye Mr Chips” shot? **Repton, Derbyshire** 3. Why does the Pentagon have twice as many toilets as a building of its size needs? **When it was built Virginia still had racial segregation so black and white workers had to use separate facilities** 4. What is omphaloskepsis? **Contemplating your navel (or setting pub quizzes?)** 5. “The woods are lonely, dark and deep/But I have promises to keep/And miles to go before I sleep/And miles to go before I sleep” Writer and title? **it’s Robert Frost, but I can’t remember the title** 6. How many eyes does a bee have? **Five** 7. Of the 7 questions in this quiz, which one is the preantepenultimate? **No. 4** ---
**Author:** ![Hemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Hemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hemlock)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-pub-quiz/93729/10 "2001-11-17T13:32:34Z")
**everton** I can make them nastier :)… 1. Nope. Teddy Roosevelt - 42 when McKinley was assassinated. 2. Nope. Sherborne, Dorset. 3-7. Yup. The Robert Frost poem is “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-pub-quiz/93729/11 "2001-11-17T14:37:25Z")
Now I remember – Kennedy was the youngest _elected_ president yes? Thanks for the others. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-pub-quiz/93729/12 "2001-11-20T23:58:33Z")
Well, it seems that nobody’s attempted my quiz, but in case you’re still interested **yastobaal** , I might as well give you the answers… 1. Which continental land mass has the larger area – Australia or Antarctica? **Antarctica** (14 million sq km v 7.6 million sq km) 2. Which city is home to the football teams Boca Juniors and Independiente? **Buenos Aries** 3. What does an ammeter measure? **Electric current** 4. Which number of Beethoven’s symphonies is called _The Choral_? **The Ninth** 5. Who sang the signature tune for _One Foot in the Grave_? **Eric Idle** 6. What word is used for the pouch traditionally worn in front of a kilt? **Sporran** 7. Which famous guitarist established himself as Jimmy James with his band The Blue Flames? **Jimi Hendrix** 8. Who won the first ever FA Cup Final played at Wembley Stadium? **Bolton Wanderers** (2-0 v West Ham United in 1923) 9. What dish consists of smoked haddock, flaked into rice with hard-boiled eggs? **Kedgeree** 10. What was Mussolini’s first name? **Benito** 11. Which British-born horror writer created the story upon which the _Hellraiser_ films were based? **Clive Barker** 12. Why was Desert Orchid not expected to make any money at stud after he finished racing? **He was a gelding (i.e. castrated)** 13. In which city would you live if your postcode began with SW? **London** 14. In _The Great Escape_, who played the part of Blythe, the forger who went blind? **Donald Pleasance** 15. What is the value of the pink/red banknote in Monopoly? **£500** 16. What medical condition is epistaxis another name for? **Nosebleed** 17. “Wool sorters’ disease” is a traditional name for which serious medical condition? **Anthrax** 18. Name either of the cricketers who have withdrawn from England’s tour of India? **Andrew Caddick and Robert Croft** 19. Which country has borders with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia? **Italy** 20. What is the name of the dip made from puréed chick peas, lemon and garlic? **Hummus** 21. Whose suicide note contained the comment “…it’s better to burn out than to fade away”? **Kurt Cobain** 22. Who was the central character in Alfred Hitchcock’s film _Psycho_? **Norman Bates** 23. Which is the sixth furthest planet from the sun? **Saturn** 24. Whose books include _Where Eagles Dare_, _Ice Station Zebra_ and _The Guns of Navarone_? **Alistair McLean** 25. Which English football team was the first to win the FA Cup and League double? **Preston North End** (1888-89 – the inaugural league season) 26. What hat is named after the Spanish word for shadow? **Sombrero** 27. In which modern country is the place where the Buddha gave his first sermon? **India** 28. What unit of British currency was removed from circulation in 1961, and was the same size as a modern penny? **The farthing** 29. In the Manx TT Motorcycle Races, what does TT stand for? **Tourist Trophy** 30. What was the profession of Frenchman Auguste Escoffier? **Chef** 31. In the film _The Usual Suspects_, whose character turned out to be the mysterious Keyser Soze? **Kevin Spacey** (= Roger “Verbal” Kint) 32. Which of the United States comes first if listed alphabetically? **Alabama** 33. Which comic actress played the part of Denise in _The Royle Family_? **Caroline Ahern** 34. Without looking, is the silver-coloured part of a £2 coin near the centre or the edge? **Centre** 35. The extinct mastodon belonged to the same family as which modern animal? **Elephant** 36. Who or what were Fat Man and Little Boy in 1945? **The atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima** 37. Of which country is Basher al-Assad the president? **Syria** 38. Which spiced currant bun wound into a spiral is named after a district of London? **Chelsea bun** 39. Which Dutch club won the European Cup three times between 1971 and 1973? **Ajax Amsterdam** 40. As seen in film credits, what is the gaffer’s job? **Electrician** (chief lighting technician in charge of the electrical department) 41. Which is the lightest of all the elements? **Hydrogen** 42. The mythical Minotaur was half and half of which two living things? **Half man, half bull** 43. At which ground does the Ireland Rugby Union team play its home matches? **Lansdowne Road** 44. ‘Alef’, ‘bet’ and ‘gimel’ are letters in the alphabet of which language? **Hebrew** 45. Which album sleeve is the best-known work of artist Peter Blake? **The Beatles’ _Sgt. Pepper…_ album** 46. What is the only even prime number? **2** 47. What English language term do we use for what the French call le Régiment Étranger? **The Foreign Legion** 48. He is captain of the Black Pig and his arch enemy is Cut-Throat Jake. Who? **Captain Pugwash** 49. In which country is Mount Kilimanjaro? **Tanzania** 50. Which soap opera features families called the Tates, the Sugdens and the Dingles? **Emmerdale** 51. In which county are Market Harborough and Melton Mowbray? **Leicestershire** 52. What did Colonel Thomas Blood attempt to steal in 1671? **The Crown Jewels** 53. From which platform at which station would you need to leave for Hogwart’s School? **Platform 9¾, King’s Cross Station** 54. What word is formed from combining the chemical symbols for potassium, nickel and iron? **Knife (K Ni Fe)** 55. What is the fifth book of the New Testament? **The Acts of the Apostles** 56. In Roman numerals, what is the result of D divided by L? **X (500 ÷ 50 = 10)** 57. What colour is Whitechapel Road on a Monopoly board? **Brown** 58. Which hell-raising actor died during the making of _Gladiator_? **Oliver Reed** 59. Is a dunnock a type of loaf, a bird or a small hill? **A bird** (also called the hedge sparrow or hedge accentor) 60. What word can go before bag, partner or pill to form a recognised phrase? **Sleeping**