The Saga Magazine August pub quiz
TV ads, the Oscars and Tina Turner are in the spotlight this month - put your general knowledge to the test.
TV ads, the Oscars and Tina Turner are in the spotlight this month - put your general knowledge to the test.
‘The customer is always right’ is a motto that was coined by the founder of which well-known UK department store?
Which famous ship from British history was originally named the Pelican?
What achievement in the history of flight was attained by American pilot Chuck Yeager on 14 October 1947?
This drink is a syrup made from pomegranates and it’s used in many cocktails. How do we best know it?
What is by far the most popular white wine grape used in Australian wine? Its vines cover more than 31,500 hectares of land there.
In 1962, which David Lean film became the first film ever to win the Best Picture Oscar with no female speaking roles?
In which fictional village does Rupert Bear live?
In which Tennessee town did Tina Turner grow up?
Which English novelist married a woman with the same first name as him in 1928?
Composed in the summer of 1741 in just 24 days, possibly in Leicestershire, what received its world premiere at Neal’s Musick Hall on Fishamble Street, Dublin, on 13 April 1742?
What is the fastest accelerating land mammal on the planet?
Journalist and documentary maker Michael Cockerell interviewed every British prime minister from Harold Macmillan to Gordon Brown. He saw only one of them use his fingers to count. Which one?
‘I was not lying. I said things that later seemed to be untrue.’ Who said that in 1978?
Who was the heir to the throne of the United Kingdom when the current king was born?
Which city in Australia was the country’s largest until it was overtaken by Sydney in the early 1900s?
Which product, according to the TV ads, was ‘as sweet as the moment when the pod went pop’?
What hardly ever happens in Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire?
14 July is a public holiday in France. What is it called?
What Spanish forename was shared by the cellist Casals and the artist Picasso?
Which British writer was denied a US Presidential Medal of Freedom by the Bush administration because her books ‘encouraged witchcraft’?
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