Pub Quiz 75
1. The international space station is the second space station that the USA has been involved with, what was their first effort called?
2. What is the name of the actor?s union?
3. Who led the British labour party from 1955-1963?
4. Which TV series was based on the producer's experience with the Gestapo?
5. In which county is Skegness?
6. What name was given to the six Dorset farm workers transported in 1834 for trying to form a trade union?
7. The Trafford centre was Europe's largest shopping centre for 5 months until it was overtaken by which other UK based shopping mall?
8. In the film the Bitch, Joan Collins flies to London from New York. What movie does she watch on the in flight system?
9. In which year did the channel tunnel open?
10. What was the name of the anti-missile missiles used by the US during the gulf war to shoot incoming scuds?
11. Methanol and ethanol belong to which group of liquids?
12. Pneumonia is a disease of what?
13. What does a viticulturist grow?
14. How did the boy David defeat the giant Goliath?
15. Which fertility expert presented the epic bbc1 factual series the human body?
16. What was the nickname of Ivan IV, tsar of Russia in the 16th century?
17. Onto what surfaces are frescos painted?
18. According to the popular rhyme, what were the names of the two little dicky birds?
19. Where does the statue called Eros stand in London?
20. What did a selly oak pensioner?s club reclassify itself as in the hope of gaining a lottery grant in 1997?
21. "I am the egg man" is a line from which Beatles song?
22. "Per un Pugno di Dollari"; Which Clint Eastwood film was it?
23. In the USA, 100% proof whisky contains what percentage of alcohol?
24. A cob is a male of which creature?
25. A deficiency in what mineral causes anaemia
26. A group of nightingales is called a what
27. In the Bible what was remarkable about Balaam's ass
28. Wackford Sqeers was a schoolmaster in which Dicken's novel
29. What claim to fame has Nicholas Breakespeare who was born in the 12th Century
30. When was Princess Anne born?
Answers
1. Skylab
2. Equity
3. Hugh Gaitskill
4. Mastermind
5. Lincolnshire
6. The Tolupuddle Martyrs
7. Bluewater
8. The Stud
9. 1994
10. Patriots
11. Alcohols
12. The Lungs
13. Grapes or Vines
14. He stunned him with a stone from a sling and then slew him with a sword
15. Professor Robert Winston
16. Ivan the Terrible
17. Walls (Plaster)
18. Peter and Paul
19. Piccadilly Circus
20. A Gay Club
21. I am the Walrus
22. A Fistful of Dollars.
23. 50
24. Swan
25. Iron
26. A Watch
27. It could talk
28. Nicholas Nickleby
29. Only English Pope
30. 1950