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Quiz 79 - With Answers: A complete Pub Quiz

Written by Bill Turnbull

Round 1. General Knowledge with answers

1         DARES SET A MARK-UP (anagram of a business)

Asda Supermarket

2        Which team did Emlyn Hughes captain to victory in the 1980 League Cup Final at Wembley

Wolverhampton Wanderers

3        Which American actor appeared in Top Gun, The Firm and The Colour of Money

Tom Cruise

4        What is added to coffee to make Kentucky coffee

Southern Comfort

5        What is the angler fish often called when used as a food

Monkfish

6        Which Noël Coward play takes its name from a line in Shelley's poem To A Skylark

Blithe Spirit

7        In the song I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, what was the last thing the Old Lady swallowed

A Horse (she's dead of course!)

8        Which European capital is on the island of Sjelland

Copenhagen

9        If you use pigs blood, oatmeal, fat and spices what would you be making

Black pudding

10     The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town was a serial within which comedy show

The Two Ronnies

11      What is the name of Harry Potter's pet owl

Hedwig

12     What is the collective noun for Motor mechanics

Clutch

13     On a British Ordnance Survey map what does Cvt stand for

Convent

14     In which TV programme is the catchphrase You're fired‚ used

The Apprentice

15     What is the correct name of the road tunnel under the Mersey

Queensway Tunnel

16     What is Action Man called in the USA

GI Joe

17     What did Baywatch beauty Pamela Anderson wear to her Cancun wedding

A bikini

18     If the cathode is the negative electrode what is the positive electrode called

Anode

19     What date followed the year One BC

One AD

20    Ian McEwan's book The Innocent is set in which European city

Berlin

Round 2. General Knowledge with answers

1.       A FEELER SHOT TWIN MUMS (anagram of a TV series)

Last Of The Summer Wine

2.      In lonely hearts adverts what does PA stand for

Photograph appreciated

3.      Which BBC TV drama series in the late 1970s featured the characters Avon, Vila and Dayna

Blake's 7

4.      What is the more common name for knapweed

Cornflower

5.      How many laps constitute a race in British speedway

Four

6.      Who was the female star of the film Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter

Jayne Mansfield

7.      In colour blindness which two colours are more often confused

Red and green

8.      Who replaced Stephen Fry in the play Cell Mates when he ran off

Simon Ward

9.      What is the term used in cookery when slices of bacon are placed over meat while roasting

To bard

10.   Challis, Loden and Cheviot are all types of which fabric

Wool

11.    Before finding fame as a film director, who played an Elvis impersonator in the last episode of The Golden Girls

Quentin Tarantino

12.   Which publication discontinued its print edition in March 2012 after 244 years

Encyclopaedia Britannica

13.   Which American First Lady was born Claudia Taylor

Ladybird Johnson

14.   Name the song thse lyrics are from “Long nights crying by the record machine dreaming of my Chevy and my old blue jeans”

Crocodile Rock (Elton John)

15.   The cruise liner Adriatic was the first ocean going ship to have what leisure facility

Swimming pool

16.   According to legend which English town did Christ visit as a youth

Glastonbury

17.   John Cleland's novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is more often published under what title

Fanny Hill

18.   What is the smallest Australian state

Tasmania

19.   The word goes after chicken, picture, live

Wire

20.  What colour is the spice saffron

Yellow

 


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