Saga Magazine June pub quiz - the Titanic, Dutch courage and a famous work of art
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.
Try this month's Saga Magazine pub quiz, with these 20 questions designed to test your general knowledge and see how many you can get right. Answers at the end.
Haymarket, Regent’s Street and Shaftesbury Avenue in London. At which famous spot do they all converge?
What type of drink was the original ‘Dutch courage’?
What was Hillary Clinton’s maiden name?
Which country singer has been quoted as saying, "It takes an awful lot of money to look this cheap"?
Who was the American athlete whose new style of high jumping won him the gold medal at the 1968 Olympic Games?
What is the natural state at room temperature of the chemical element krypton – solid, liquid or gas?
What is the name given to the notorious 15th fence on the Grand National course at Aintree? It’s one of just two fences that are negotiated only once during the race.
"Somewhere in the crowd, there’s you!" That’s a slogan used for the original stage version of Mamma Mia! From which song does it come?
Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII. Chronologically, who came next?
In what everyday object – analogue rather than digital – might you find an escape wheel, a balance wheel and a hairspring?
According to the book of Genesis, and possibly James Dean, where was Cain exiled after he murdered his brother Abel?
You can find one in Sherwood Forest, another in Elveden Forest, one at Longleat, one at Whinfell Forest and, since 2014, one in Woburn Forest. What?
What first name is shared by a posh ready-meals brand, a checkpoint between East and West Berlin much featured in the early novels of John Le Carré, and – in a slightly different spelling – an English singer-songwriter, aged 32, whose singles include Break the Rules, Boom Clap, and After the Afterparty?
Which football club started life as Thames Ironworks FC?
Which famous work of art was stolen in 1911 by one Vincenzo Peruggia?
"Everything he touches turns to excitement" was the tagline for which 1964 film?
In zoology, metachrosis is the ability of an animal to do what?
David and Victoria Beckham have three sons, named Brooklyn, Cruz and what?
What word can be a lucky break, the pointed end of an anchor or a parasitic flatworm?
In August 1994, on a salvage mission to the seabed around the wreck of the Titanic, what item was discovered yards away from the liner’s bridge, which had it been used, might have saved the lives of more than 1,500 people on board?
1. Piccadilly Circus, 2. Gin, 3. Rodham, 4. Dolly Parton, 5. Dick Fosbury (The Fosbury Flop), 6. Gas, 7. The Chair, 8. Super Trouper, 9. Edward VI, 10. A clock or a watch, 11. East of Eden, 12. Center Parcs, 13. Charlie (Bigham, Checkpoint Charlie, Charli XCX), 14. West Ham United, 15. The Mona Lisa, 16. Goldfinger, 17. Change colour, 18. Romeo, 19. Fluke, 20. A pair of binoculars
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