Pub Quiz 3
The following questions are suitable for a pub quiz, generally having short answers (that can be scribbled on a piece of paper) and not too difficult.
1. At the start of a game of draughts, how many squares are not covered by pieces?
2. What does a Campanologist do?
3. A yellowish brown coating and a reckless German pilot. Four letters
4. What is Hugh Grant's occupation in the hit movie "Notting Hill"?
5. An EU country's capital city and a variety of vegetable.
6. Why was Erika Schinegger stripped of her 1966 downhill skiing world title?
7. The Sahara is the largest desert in the world, what is the second largest?
8. Who was the first king of Israel?
9. True or false: The American inventor of the deep-freezing process was a Mr Birdseye?
10. How many times did Bjorn Borg win the men?s singles finals at Wimbledon?
11. What name is given to a baby elephant?
12. In Greek mythology, what is the distinguishing factor on the guard dog Cerberus?
13. Which musical hailed the dawning of the Age of Aquarius?
14. Which game was invented by Dr James Naismith in 1891?
15. Who was the last Aztec ruler of Mexico?
16. Which breed of small aggressive terrier dogs was originally bred to hunt rats?
17. In which film does Yul Brynner play a robot gunfighter?
18. Which military base in North Kentucky holds the US Gold Reserves?
19. Normal, Reverse, Strike Slip, Horst and Graben are all types of what?
20. Which buildings did Don Quixote mistake for evil giants?
ANSWERS
1. 40
2. Ring bells - a Campanologist is a bell ringer
3. Rust
4. A bookshop owner
5. Brussels (Sprouts/Belgium)
6. She was a man
7. The Australian Desert
8. Saul
9. True
10. Five times
11. A Calf
12. He had three heads
13. Hair
14. Basketball
15. Montezuma II
16. Jack Russell
17. Westworld
18. Fort Knox
19. Faults caused by movements in the earth
20. Windmills