The Saga Magazine April pub quiz - cakes, charities and the Channel

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

In which science-fiction film series might you have been offered a choice between the blue pill and the red pill?

Question 2

Who was the last monarch to have two separate coronations as King of Scotland and King of England? There were ten years between the two.

Question 3

In the 1994 football World Cup, the whole of which national team had surnames ending with the letters ‘ov’?

Question 4

Which is the only state in the world whose president is dead? Although he died in 1994, the post was then assigned to him for eternity.

Question 5

Which Hollywood star became a European princess when she married in 1956 – and never acted again in a film?

Question 6

Whose films as director include Cocoon in 1985, Apollo 13 in 1995, A Beautiful Mind in 2001, The Da Vinci Code in 2006, and Frost/Nixon in 2008?

Question 7

In which land did Cain go to live after he killed his brother Abel?

Question 8

How old was the late Queen Elizabeth II when she acceded to the throne?

Question 9

The world’s first jet-powered airliner was the de Havilland Comet. What was the first jet-powered airliner produced by Boeing?

Question 10

Which road is connected to itself by the A282?

Question 11

Which TV show had the working title 242 Minutes, a reference to the amount of time the average Briton watched TV every day when it first aired in 2013?

Question 12

David Evans is an Irish musician of some renown. What is his somewhat liminal nickname?

Question 13

Which company manufactures the original Jaffa Cakes?

Question 14

The painters William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais were three of the original seven members of which late 19th-century artistic group or movement?

Question 15

From which game does the expression ‘level pegging’ come?

Question 16

A seismograph is an instrument used for measuring the strength or intensity of what?

Question 17

Who named his sons after five of the original seven Mercury astronauts?

Question 18

In 2006, which comedian and now children’s author became the 666th person to swim the English Channel?

Question 19

After Eglantyne Jebb learned of the plight of children in Austria and Germany in 1919, what charity did she found?

Question 20

When built, the functional elements of which building were colour-coded? Air-conditioning pipes were blue; the parts to do with the movement of people were red; water pipes were green; the electricity conduit and fuse boxes were yellow.