The Saga Magazine April pub quiz - From famous statues to Frankenstein
Put your general knowledge to the test with these 20 brain teasers.
Put your general knowledge to the test with these 20 brain teasers.
Who have been in Class 2B since 1954?
Which family in the Harry Potter novels were named after a Gloucestershire town?
Robert Redford and Laurence Olivier opened the batting, James Caan came in at number three, Michael Caine at four, followed by Sean Connery, Elliott Gould, Dirk Bogarde and Anthony Hopkins. In between takes of which 1977 film?
Which telephone was black before Kennedy, turquoise for Kennedy and Johnson, black for Nixon and Ford, white for Carter and Reagan, and black from George Bush Senior onwards?
Sir Alfred Gilbert’s statue, first known as ‘The God of Selfless Love’, was unveiled in central London in 1893. How is it better known now?
Which British film, starring Michael Caine and made in 1971, was based on the novel Jack’s Return Home by Ted Lewis?
Who followed his win in the 1991 US Masters golf tournament by ordering leek and potato soup, Welsh lamb and apple pie and ice cream for the 1992 Champions’ dinner?
Which Mediterranean holiday island is known as ‘Kerkyra’ in its own language?
The 17th-century author and poet John Milton suffered from what disability for the last 20 of his 65 years?
Who lives at 1000 Mammon Lane, Springfield, US?
Prince Michael of Kent, Michael Frayn, Kate Beckinsale, Madeleine Albright, Sidney Poitier, Mila Kunis and Natalie Wood are, or were, fluent in which foreign language?
In 1988 the BBC asked Alan Whicker, Noel Edmonds and Miles Kington to recreate a journey undertaken 100 years before by a fictional character. They all said no. The fourth person they asked said yes. Who was that?
The atoms of hydrogen are the lightest. Which element, with atomic number 92, has the heaviest naturally occurring atoms?
What does Frankenstein’s monster, in the novel by Mary Shelley, have in common with the Simpsons?
The best-known work of 19th-century sculptor Edward H Baily is seen by tens of thousands of people in London every day. What is it?
Who will be replacing Prue Leith as a judge on The Great British Bake Off?
Riders of the Purple Sage is one of the 112 films, mostly westerns, that were based on books by which US writer who died in 1939?
Steven Moffat was lead writer and executive producer of Doctor Who. What feature of the show has he described as ‘the single best idea, I think, in all of fiction’?
What is the nearest Commonwealth country to the UK?
When they formed in Edinburgh in 1967, this band called themselves The Saxons. But then decided this sounded too English. To choose a new name, they threw a dart at a map of the US. It landed in Michigan. What did they call themselves?
1. The Bash Street Kids 2. The Dursleys 3. A Bridge Too Far 4. The White House ‘hotline’ 5. Eros 6. Get Carter 7. Ian Woosnam 8. Corfu 9. Blindness 10. Montgomery Burns (The Simpsons) 11. Russian 12. Michael Palin (Around The World in 80 Days) 13. Uranium 14. Yellow skin 15. Lord Nelson (Nelson’s Column) 16. Nigella Lawson 17. Zane Grey 18. The Tardis 19. Malta 20. Bay City Rollers
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