The Saga Magazine April pub quiz - cakes, charities and the Channel
Test your general knowledge this month with our 20 pub quiz teasers.
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Test your general knowledge this month with our 20 pub quiz teasers.
Answer these 20 questions designed to test your general knowledge and see how many you can get right. Answers at the end.
In which science-fiction film series might you have been offered a choice between the blue pill and the red pill?
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.
In the 1994 football World Cup, the whole of which national team had surnames ending with the letters ‘ov’?
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.
Which Hollywood star became a European princess when she married in 1956 – and never acted again in a film?
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?
In which land did Cain go to live after he killed his brother Abel?
How old was the late Queen Elizabeth II when she acceded to the throne?
The world’s first jet-powered airliner was the de Havilland Comet. What was the first jet-powered airliner produced by Boeing?
Which road is connected to itself by the A282?
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?
David Evans is an Irish musician of some renown. What is his somewhat liminal nickname?
Which company manufactures the original Jaffa Cakes?
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?
From which game does the expression ‘level pegging’ come?
A seismograph is an instrument used for measuring the strength or intensity of what?
Who named his sons after five of the original seven Mercury astronauts?
In 2006, which comedian and now children’s author became the 666th person to swim the English Channel?
After Eglantyne Jebb learned of the plight of children in Austria and Germany in 1919, what charity did she found?
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.
1. The Matrix, 2. Charles II (1651 and 61), 3. Bulgaria, 4. North Korea, 5. Grace Kelly, 6. Ron Howard, 7. The land of Nod, 8. 25 (February 1952), 9. The 707, 10. The M25, 11. Gogglebox, 12. The Edge, 13. McVitie’s, 14. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 15. Cribbage, 16. Earthquakes, 17. Jeff Tracy (in Thunderbirds), 18. David Walliams, 19. Save the Children, 20. Pompidou Centre
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