Saga Magazine pub quiz - Hollywood actors, Harry Potter and hawksbills

It's time to test your general knowledge with our 20 fun brain teasers.

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By Saga Magazine | Published - 21 Nov 2024

Try our 20 brain teasers and see how many you can get right. Answers at the end.

Questions

Question 1

Which classic novel is narrated by a character who is called Jim Hawkins?

Question 2

"Looks good, tastes good, and by golly it does you good!" Which milk stout, first brewed in 1907 and still available, was advertised with that slogan for many years?

Question 3

Richard Harris played Professor Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films before he died in 2002. Who replaced him for the rest of the series?

A. Michael Gambon

B. Patrick Stewart

C. Ian McKellen

Question 4

Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis plays which instrument?

A. Trombone

B. Saxophone

C. Trumpet

Question 5

Melissa Matheson, the screenwriter behind ET, was married to Hollywood superstar Harrison Ford from 1983 until they divorced in 2004. True or false?

Question 6

Hungarian patent HU170062 was taken out in 1975 for a product that has since recorded sales of almost 460 million, more than a third of them between 1980 and 1982. What was the product?

Question 7

Among his Desert Island Discs, George Clooney chose a version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. As he explained, "If you listen to this song, you will hollow out your own leg and make a canoe of it to get off the island." He was referring to a version of the song by which actor?

Question 8

In 2002, the Metropolitan Police and the BBC fought a trademark case for ownership of the copyright of the police box design that is now only really used for the TARDIS in Doctor Who. Who won?

A. The BBC

B. The Metropolitan Police

Tardis in the field — Image credit: GettyImages/Wayleebird

Question 9

The youngest ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature was British and won in 1907 at the age of 41. Who was he?

Question 10

Green, giant, hawksbill and loggerhead are all types of which animal?

Question 11

Franklin D Roosevelt was the only US president to have had three vice presidents. True or false?

Question 12

In which Bond movie, released in 1995, did Dame Judi Dench make her debut as M?

A. The World Is Not Enough

B. Goldeneye

C. Tomorrow Never Dies

Question 13

Promoted as ‘the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat’, Flame, a perfume for men, was launched in 2009 by which fast food company?

A. McDonald’s

B. Wendy’s

C. Burger King

Question 14

Guilty feet. What don’t they have, according to George Michael?

Question 15

What happened on Christmas Day 1916, 1927, 1938, 1956, 1964, 1968, 1970, 1976, 1996 and 1999, and on none of the others in between?

A. It snowed in London

B. It fell on a Sunday

C. There was a power cut in London

Question 16

In 2005, the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles had to postpone their wedding. Whose death caused this delay?

Question 17

Which of the world’s most recognisable buildings was designed by the Danish architect Jørn Utzon?

Question 18

Which new cathedral in Britain was opened in 1962 after wartime bomb damage had destroyed its predecessor?

Question 19

To which tennis player was golfer Greg Norman married between 2008 and 2009?

Question 20

Who, over the past 50 years, has been seen working as a waiter in a restaurant in San Francisco, wearing safari shorts in Botswana, living in Goa, lecturing in Sydney, suspiciously depositing money in a bank in Melbourne, getting dressed in the changing room of the University of British Columbia gym in Canada, and backpacking on Mount Etna, among others?

Answers

1. Treasure Island, 2. Mackeson, 3. Michael Gambon, 4. Trumpet, 5. True 6. Rubik's Cube, 7. William Shatner, 8. The BBC, 9. Rudyard Kipling, 10. Turtle, 11. True, 12. Goldeneye, 13. Burger King, 14. Rhythm, 15. It snowed in London, 16. Pope John Paul II, 17. Sydney Opera House, 18. Coventry, 19. Chris Evert, 20. Lord Lucan.