Pub Quiz 110

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The following quiz round was kindly donated by Robin Seath from the UK. Many thanks Robin, a fantastic set of questions.

Mixed Bunch

1. Which animal has been responsible for more human deaths than any other?

2. How many property squares are there on a Monopoly board?

3. Which magician was married to Victoria Wood?

4. Which number cannot be expressed in Roman figures?

5. How many tarot cards are there?

6. How many feet are there in a fathom?

7. Who wrote ?Paradise Lost??

8. With what was Trotsky butchered?

9. Bartholomew and Wiseman are better known as whom?

10. A quarter of the bones in the human body are located in which area?  

Sport

11. How high is a basketball net from the floor?

12. With which sport would you associate David Broome?

13. When do all racehorses have their birthday?

14. Which 400 metres hurdler went 122 races unbeaten between from 1977-1987?

15. What is the highest fence in the Grand National?

16. Who was the first black footballer to appear for England in a full football international?

17. At which sport do England and Scotland compete for the Calcutta Cup?

18. How many players from each team are allowed on the ice at the same time in a game of ice hockey?

19. Which British athlete won the women?s pentathlon at the 1972 Olympics?

20. What nationality was the tennis player Ilie Nastase?  

Music

21. Which Spice Girl recorded a duet with Bryan Adams?

22. In which year was the Woodstock festival?

23. Which cartoon group were formed by Damon Albarn?

24. ?Since You?ve Been Gone? was a 1979 hit for which band?

25. What does OMD stand for?

26. What nationality was Helen Reddy?

27. Which Monkee started off his working life as a jockey?

28. Who was the lead singer of Free?

29. What were the names of the twins in Bros?

30. Who was the lead singer of the Electric Light Orchestra?  

History

31. Who became King of England in 1422 at the age of eight months?

32. What were parliamentary followers known as during the English Civil War?

33. Who was King of England at the time of the Gunpowder Plot?

34. Edgehill was the opening battle in which war?

35. Which Shakespeare play was said to have been written at the request of Elizabeth I?

36. Which battle on British soil took place on the 9th September 1513?

37. In which year was the Queen Mother born?

38. Which Argentinean cruiser was controversially sunk by British forces during the Falklands conflict?

39. Who committed the murders of 10 Rillington Place in the 1950?s?

40. Who was the British Prime Minister at the outbreak of the first world war?  

ANSWERS

1. Mosquito

2. Twenty Two

3. Geoffrey Durham, The Great Soprendo

4. Zero

5. 78

6. Six

7. John Milton

8. An Ice Pick

9. Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise

10. Feet  

11. 10 feet

12. Show Jumping

13. January 1st

14. Ed Moses

15. The Chair

16. Viv Anderson

17. Rugby Union

18. Six

19. Mary Peters

20. Rumanian  

21. Mel C (Sporty)

22. 1969

23. The Gorillaz

24. Rainbow

25. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

26. Australian

27. Davy Jones

28. Paul Rodgers

29. Matt & Luke Goss

30. Jeff Lynne  

31. Henry VI

32. Roundheads

33. James I

34. English Civil War

35. The Merry Wives of Windsor

36. Flodden

37. 1900

38. The General Belgrano

39. John Christie

40. Herbert Asquith  

 

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