The Saga Magazine October pub quiz - from prisons to paper folding
Put your general knowledge to the test with our 20 brain-teasers.
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Put your general knowledge to the test with our 20 brain-teasers.
In which country is Chihuahua cheese manufactured?
Who, in 1952, was offered the chance to become president of Israel, even though he wasn’t a citizen of the country? He said no in any case.
What is the Japanese art of paper-folding called?
The Daily Record is the sister newspaper in Scotland of which London-based national daily paper?
What name is given to the currents of warm air that pilots of gliders and hang-gliders use to get upward lift?
The Golan Heights is a range of hills on the border between Israel and which other country?
Which London football team is, or has been, supported by Piers Morgan, Michael Winner, Jeremy Beadle, Jay-Z, Dido, Prince Harry, Mick Jagger, Fidel Castro, David Soul of Starsky & Hutch, and Osama Bin Laden?
Which film, released in 2010, contains 17 uses of the f-word and was originally given a 15 certificate, which was later relaxed to a 12A with the unusual warning “contains strong language in a speech therapy context”?
Which Heinz product has a speed limit? According to the company website, “If it pours unaided at more than 0.028 mph, it’s rejected for sale”.
The phrase, “What happens here, stays here” is a registered trademark owned by, and used in advertisements for, which US city?
Which semi-precious stone is mined at the South Australian town of Coober Pedy, where the inhabitants mainly live underground in homes they have created from the old workings in order to keep cool?
How many yachts compete in the final stages of the America’s Cup?
What name is given to the pudding served in Italian restaurants that consists of beaten egg yolks, sugar and, usually, Marsala wine?
Which World War I poet won the Military Cross and was killed in France a week before the end of hostilities?
Which planet in the solar system has moons named after the Greek words for “fear” and “dread”?
What type of prison was named after a village near Rochester in Kent?
Night and Day is probably Cole Porter’s most famous song and has been covered by countless singers. Which singer, who died in 1998, recorded it five times, in 1942, 1947, 1956, 1962 and a rarely played disco version in 1977?
Which nursery rhyme, according to one interpretation, was written as a protest against Edward I’s imposition of a tax on wool exports in 1275?
Bashful, Sleepy, Grumpy, Sneezy, Doc and Dopey. Who’s missing?
When he was two hours late in December 2014 for a speech he was supposed to make in Wales, who blamed the M4’s heavy traffic on immigration?
1. Mexico 2. Albert Einstein 3. Origami 4. The Daily Mirror 5. Thermals 6. Syria 7. Arsenal 8. The King’s Speech 9. Tomato ketchup 10. Las Vegas 11. Opals 12. Two 13. Zabaglione 14. Wilfred Owen 15. Mars (Phobos and Deimos are named after gods who embody these traits) 16. Borstal 17. Frank Sinatra 18. Baa Baa, Black Sheep 19. Happy 20. Nigel Farage
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