The Saga Magazine July Pub Quiz - comic books, album covers and commercials

Test your general knowledge this month with our 20 pub quiz teasers.

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By Marcus Berkmann | Published - 1 Jul 2025

Answer these 20 questions designed to test your general knowledge and see how many you can get right. Answers at the end.

Questions

Question 1

Whose album Two Virgins was impounded by US customs in 1968 because its cover featured the two musicians full-frontal nude on the cover?

Question 2

Sir Ephraim Mirvis has held which position in British public life since 2013? His immediate predecessor was the late Dr Jonathan Sacks.

Question 3

So far, 45 people have served 47 US presidencies. Who is the only one to have named his child after an Elvis Costello song?

Question 4

Who rowed for Cambridge in the 1980 Boat Race and only took up acting when a bout of glandular fever forced him to give up the sport?

Question 5

All penguins are native to the southern hemisphere. One species lives near the equator in a group of islands after which it takes its name. What name?

Question 6

In the late 1980s, which TV show regularly had a British audience larger than the entire population of the country in which the show was made?

Question 7

Sebastian Coe in July 1979, Steve Ovett in July 1980 and Steve Cram in July 1985 all broke the world record for the mile in which European city?

Question 8

In several books written by PG Wodehouse, who or what is the Empress of Blandings?

Question 9

Once described as "the richest African-American of the 20th century" by Forbes, who won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant in 1971?

Question 10

The counties of Waterford in Ireland and Caithness in Scotland. What product, made in these areas, connects them?

Question 11

The tuba, the cor anglais, the trombone and the euphonium – which is the odd one out?

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Question 12

Dennis the Menace has a dog called Gnasher and a spider called Dasher. What is his pig called?

Question 13

Which American state is, geographically, nearest to the equator?

Question 14

Which European country has had ten kings called Charles, six called Philip, two Johns and two Roberts, but only one Hugh?

Question 15

In the Catholic Church, when trying to decide whether a person should be made a saint, someone is appointed to give the alternative view. What is this post called?

Question 16

In 2006, who opened a fashion store named CR7 in his hometown of Funchal in Madeira? Eight years later a museum of the same name opened there as well.

Question 17

In 2008, a new series of Mr Men books introduced a new character, Mr Rude, who was red and stuck his tongue out at everyone. Did he have an American, French or Australian accent?

Question 18

Which singer-songwriter started his career writing advertising jingles, then played piano for Bette Midler in New York’s gay bathhouses before becoming successful in his own right?

Question 19

What is Private Eye’s nickname for Rupert Murdoch?

Question 20

In the mid-1980s British actor Brian Jackson made a series of commercials for a food manufacturer. Clad in a cream suit and panama hat, he’d taste a piece of fruit, nod his assent and then another character would say the same eight words. What eight words?

Answers

1 John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 2 Chief Rabbi, 3 Bill Clinton, 4 Hugh Laurie, 5 Galápagos penguin, 6 Neighbours, 7 Oslo, 8 Lord Emsworth’s prize pig, 9 Oprah Winfrey, 10 Crystal glass, 11 Cor anglais, 12 Rasher, 13 Hawaii, 14 France, 15 Devil’s advocate, 16 Cristiano Ronaldo, 17 French, 18 Barry Manilow, 19 Dirty Digger, 20 "The man from Del Monte, he say yes!"