The Saga Magazine March pub quiz - Live Aid, champagne and space
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.
Who stayed as the pilot of the command module in orbit around the moon in 1969 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the lunar surface?
Which comic book hero’s main adversary was called the Mekon?
Which Italian car company owned Ferrari between 1988 and 2014?
Which famous mural painting covers an end wall of the dining hall at the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan?
The sun and the moon are the brightest natural objects in the sky. Which planet is third?
On Nelson’s Column in London’s Trafalgar Square is the eponymous admiral wearing an eye patch?
What name, perhaps better associated with another form of transport, is given to the passenger cabin of an airship or balloon?
Bette Midler introduced which star at Live Aid in 1985 as "a woman who pulled herself up by her bra straps"?
True Champagne may only be made in the French region of that name. Which city is its regional capital?
And Cava, which is to real Champagne as Nescafé Gold Blend is to real coffee, comes from which European country?
The King George VI Chase is run annually on Boxing Day at which racecourse?
What’s the only state in the USA that has just one syllable in its name?
What word, now used to denote a sports arena, was originally an ancient Greek measure of length, roughly equivalent to 600ft?
Where would you find 12 hotels, 32 houses and £15,140 in cash?
Who is the only former Spice Girl never to have had a British number one single as a solo artist?
Which former Conservative politician changed his name from Gideon when he was 13?
"It was my small act of rebellion," he said in 2005. "I never liked it. When I finally told my mother she said, 'Nor do I.'"
St Brelade’s Bay, St Ouen’s Bay and St Catherine’s Bay can all be found on the coast of which of the British isles?
What do US companies Amazon and Microsoft have in common with the Starbucks chain of coffee houses?
Which is the only state in Australia that has a land border with all the other mainland states?
In the summer of 2005, 16-year-old Hannah White, from Lancashire, passed 10 GCSEs with seven A or A* grades.
What did she do on her afternoon off between her English literature and religious studies exams?
1. Michael Collins, 2. Dan Dare, 3. Fiat, 4. The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, 5. Venus, 6. No, 7. Gondola, 8. Madonna, 9. Reims, 10. Spain, 11. Kempton Park, 12. Maine, 13. Stadium, 14. In a standard Monopoly set, 15. Victoria Beckham, 16. George Osborne, 17. Jersey, 18. All have HQs in Seattle, 19. South Australia, 20. She gave birth.
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