The Saga Magazine August pub quiz

Question 1

Happy Valley, in Hong Kong, is a famous and longstanding sporting venue. What kind of sport takes place there?

Question 2

Passports for pets, commercial radio and 24-hour licensing were all ideas that originally appeared in the election manifestos of which British political party?

Question 3

Which English actor, born in 1985, first asked her parents for an agent at the age of three, and was given one when she was six as a reward for working hard?

Question 4

In 1962, what became the first frozen food to be listed in the Retail Price Index?

Question 5

George Soros, the financier; Harry Houdini, the magician and escapologist; Sir Georg Solti, the conductor; and Zsa Zsa Gabor, the actor and serial spouse, were all born in which European city?

Question 6

What vegetable is known on menus in Indian restaurants as ‘aloo’?

Question 7

Who or what were pitted against each other in the Rainhill Trials of 1829?

Question 8

In which famous film of 1933, remade in 2005, is the second leading character called Ann Darrow?

Question 9

Which singer, born in Sheffield in 1949 and died in September 2003, was said to have been buried in one of his trademark bespoke suits – though it is unclear if this is true?

Question 10

As all habitués of pub quizzes know, Flowers in the Rain by The Move was the first record heard on Radio 1 in 1967. Who played it?

Question 11

The Queen’s annus horribilis was 1992, though the following year can’t have been that great either. What did she start doing in April 1993 that she had never had to do before?

Question 12

Roughly how old is the Earth? Is it 3.5 billion, 4.5 billion or 5.5 billion years?

Question 13

You’re in Downing Street, on the opposite side of the road from Number 10, looking at the door. Is number 11 on your left or your right?

Question 14

‘Neither a borrower, nor a lender be’ and ‘To thine own self be true’. Which Shakespeare play is the original source of those quotes?

An illustration of William the Conqueror — Image credit: Getty Images

Question 15

In 1066 England had three kings: William the Conqueror was the third of them, King Harold II was the second, but who was the first?

Question 16

In 1979, brothers Robin and Ali Campbell, sons of the Scottish folk singer Ian Campbell, performed their first gig with some unemployed friends. What was the band’s name?

Question 17

Which Israeli actor plays Wonder Woman in the current series of films?

Question 18

Which castle in Kent was Anne Boleyn’s childhood home?

Question 19

Fort Knox, the US gold depository and centrepiece of the film Goldfinger, is in which US state?

Question 20

If Kanye West and Kim Kardashian got back together and had another baby, what is the only station on the London Underground they could name him or her after? In other words, which is the only station that ends in the word ‘West’?

Saga Magazine pub quiz answers

1 Horse Racing 2 Official Monster Raving Loony Party 3 Keira Knightley 4 Fish Fingers 5 Budapest 6 Potato 7 Steam locomotives 8 King Kong (Fay Wray and Naomi Watts) 9 Robert Palmer 10 Tony Blackburn 11 Pay income tax 12 4.5 billion 13 Your left 14 Hamlet 15 Edward the Confessor 16 UB40 17 Gal Gadot 18 Hever Castle 19 Kentucky 20 Hounslow