Pub Quiz Set #2

1.      1.   The title of which Beach Boys song is also the title of the autobiography of Jacqueline Gold, the founder of Ann Summers?

Good Vibrations

2.      2. What is the common name of the aurora borealis?

Northern Lights

3.      3. Kampala is the capital and largest city of which African country?

Uganda

4.The answer is not sausages. In the 1980s, a national newspaper launched the “Save our Sizzlers” campaign to prevent a ban on what?

Page 3

4.      5. Giving its name to a widely used English-language term, what was the title of Joseph Heller’s best-known novel?

Catch 22

1.      The stirrup, the smallest bone in humans, is found in which part of the body?

Ear

2.      Which four planets in the Solar System have rings?

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

3.      How many legs does a scorpion have?

8

4.      Someone with anosmia is lacking in what sense?

Smell

5.      In which decade of the 20^th century was world’s first successful heart transplant carried out?

1960s

1.      What type of Italian Spicy Sausage derives its name from the Latin word for Salt?

Salami

2.      Emmental Cheese originates from which country?

Switzerland

3.      The name of which type of thin spaghetti translates into English as “Little Worms”?

Vermicelli

4.      The Japanese alcoholic drink ‘sake’ is made from the fermented juice of what?

Rice

5.      Which spirit is used to make a screwdriver cocktail?

Vodka

1.      Who was Prime Minister when……the Berlin wall fell?

Margaret Thatcher

2.      Who was Prime Minister when…..the Millennium Dome was opened?

Tony Blair

3.      Who was Prime Minister when….the National Lottery was launched?

John Major

4.      Who was Prime Minister when…..England won the football world cup?

Harold Wilson

5.      Who was Prime Minister when…..the Titanic sank?

Herbert Asquith

1.      Which South African golfer earned the nickname “The Big Easy”?

Ernie Els

2.      Which nations Rugby Union team are known as “The Wallabies”?

Australia

3.      Which Premier League Football team are nicknamed “The Black Cats”?

Sunderland

4.      What term, also used in gambling, is the nickname of the darts player Adrian Lewis?

Jackpot

5.      Which Olympic medal winning British cyclist is known as “The Manx Missile”?

Mark Cavendish

1.      Which film won Best Film at the 2017 Oscars ceremony, involved in a mix-up with La La Land being wrongly announced as winner?

Moonlight

2.      Who became the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner for On Golden Pond – was it John Wayne, James Stewart or Henry Fonda?

Henry Fonda

3.      Patricia Neal won a Best Actress Oscar for Hud. She was married to which famous writer of children’s literature?

Roald Dahl

4.      Sharing a surname with a famous BBC TV personality, who directed the 1982 Oscar-winning film Gandhi?

Richard Attenborough

5.      Who played the female lead in the 1997 Oscar-winning film Titanic?

Kate Winslet

1.      What name is shared by a brass musical instrument and an ice-cream cone?

Cornet

2.      What surname is shared by a 20^th US President and a member of Girls Aloud?

Harding

3.      What name is shared by a former England Football Manager and a current Formula 1 Racing Team?

McLaren

4.      What name is shared by the second longest river in Scotland and one half of an infamous crime duo?

Clyde

5.      What male forename is also the name of a car launched by Vauxhall in 2012?

Adam

1.       “The trouble is they taste so good” is a slogan that has been used to advertise which breakfast cereal made by Kellogg’s?

Crunchy Nut Cornflakes

2.       At the end of an episode of The Crystal Maze, what is the name of the giant crystal where teams go to collect tokens being blown around by fans?

The Crystal Dome

3.       Which famous singer has appeared in the films Wayne’s World, Fight Club and The Rocky Horror Picture Show?

Meat Loaf

4.       Created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, which fictional character becomes king after marrying Nooka the Nook?

Noggin the Nog

5.       What is the connection between your 4 answers

Slang terms for someone’s head – nut, dome, noggin, loaf