The Saga Magazine September pub quiz - from Fort Knox to famous kings
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.
Happy Valley, in Hong Kong, is a famous and longstanding sporting venue. What kind of sport takes place there?
Passports for pets, commercial radio and 24-hour licensing were all ideas that originally appeared in the election manifestos of which British political party?
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?
In 1962, what became the first frozen food to be listed in the Retail Price Index?
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?
What vegetable is known on menus in Indian restaurants as ‘aloo’?
Who or what were pitted against each other in the Rainhill Trials of 1829?
In which famous film of 1933, remade in 2005, is the second leading character called Ann Darrow?
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?
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?
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?
Roughly how old is the Earth? Is it 3.5 billion, 4.5 billion or 5.5 billion years?
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?
‘Neither a borrower, nor a lender be’ and ‘To thine own self be true’. Which Shakespeare play is the original source of those quotes?
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?
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?
Which Israeli actor plays Wonder Woman in the current series of films?
Which castle in Kent was Anne Boleyn’s childhood home?
Fort Knox, the US gold depository and centrepiece of the film Goldfinger, is in which US state?
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’?
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