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26. Anita Roddick founded which high street chain
The PubPaper Quiz of shops?
27. What do the initials JP stand for referring to a
1. In children’s literature who has a dog called court magistrate’s title?
Snowy and is friends with Captain Haddock? 28. What did February make Don McLean do in
2. In which country in ancient times was mummifi- the words of his 1971 hit American Pie?
cation carried out on important people when they 29. In the A. A. Milne book Winnie–the–Pooh what
died? are the names of the female kangaroo and her
3. What colour are the benches in the House of young son?
Commons? 30. Some customers will be banned from super-
4. A rare occurrence happens once in a blue... markets Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s
what? under tougher COVID measures. For what
5. What children’s TV duo had a neighbour called reason will people be refused entry to stores?
Weed? (Jan 2021)
6. Which leaves can be used to soothe the pain 31. Blue and which other colour appear on the tail-
from stinging nettles? fins of Ryanair planes?
7. What name is given to the children’s sports day 32. How many letters appear twice in the word
game which involves an egg and a spoon? ‘millennium’?
8. At more than 6.5 million square miles, what is 33. Spandau prison was in what city?
the largest country in the world? 34. According to the singer Katie Melua, how many
9. What colour are motorways on British road million bicycles are there in Beijing?
maps? 35. A holograph of which renowned veteran broad-
10. The Jowett Javelin is an executive car which caster is being used as part of a trial to demon-
was produced from 1947 to 1953 by Jowett Cars strate the potential of 5G? (Jan 2021)
Ltd. In which British city was Jowett based? 36. The rocks known as the Needles off the Isle of
Wight are made of which mineral?
11. A manse is a traditional name for a house
37. Americans sometimes claim Antonio Meucci
of what professional person: Teacher; Doctor;
beat him to it, but all British quizzers know
Undertaker; or Church minister?
which Edinburgh-born man invented the tele-
12. How many ‘eyes’ does a coconut have at its
phone?
base?
38. The Øresund Bridge connects which two coun-
13. What is the currency of Argentina?
tries?
14. In which month is Mother’s Day celebrated in
39. Which car company made the Interceptor,
Britain?
ceasing production in 1976?
15. In military terms, the acronym SAS stands for 40. Happy Monday’s star Bez claims Shaun
…? Ryder’s...what ‘grew back after having Covid’?
16. What is the maiden name of the Duchess of (Jan 2021)
Cambridge? 41. Name the 1869 Russian based novel, which
17. Name the Spanish coastal region containing the contains 1,475 pages?
city of Málaga, and towns including Torremolinos, 42. The UK’s Dyslexia Research Trust is, ironically,
Benalmádena, Fuengirola, and Marbella? based in which English city?
18. In horse racing, what name is given to a female 43. The racetrack known as Croft Circuit is in
horse under five years of age? which county?
19. In Italian cuisine, what ‘G’ describes small dump- 44. Who won the 2020/21 PDC World Darts
lings made of potato, flour or semolina? Championship?
20. Captain Cook and Captain Scott both sailed in 45. Seahorse is a character from TVs The Masked
ships with what name? Singer, but who’s disguise was it? (Jan 2021)
21. Name the puzzle, meaning ‘single number’ in 46. If you dug a hole through the centre of the
Japanese, requiring the completion of a grid so earth starting from Wellington in New Zealand,
that each column, row and 3x3 box contain the which European country would you end up in?
numbers 1-9? 47. What is the name of Microsoft’s Internet search
22. Who stars as ex-government operative Bryan engine unveiled in 1979 as a rival to Google?
Mills in the Taken film trilogy? 48. In which country is the Eyjafjallajökull volcano,
23. The Yorkshire town of Masham has two brewer- whose eruption in 2010 affected air flights?
ies, name them? 49. Le Creuset is a premium French manufacturer
24. In which year was the smoking ban introduced? best known for its colourfully-enamelled cast-
25. What animals did police protect from prying iron...what?
members of the public by patrolling at Horsey 50. Who sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Joe
Gap in Norfolk recently? (Jan 2021) Biden’s inauguration? (Jan 2021)
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1. Name the great old rival company of the Harley- 18. Los Pumas is the nickname of which coun-
Davidson motorbike corporation, whose models try’s Rugby Union team?
included the Chief and Scout? 19. The largest maximum-security prison in the
2. Name the Italian red wine from Tuscany tradition- UK is located in which Yorkshire city?
ally available in a squat bottle in a straw basket, 20. Bryan Adams’ long-running UK number one
called a fiasco? single (Everything I Do) I Do It for You
3. What ‘royal’ crop accounts for 70% of the agricul- was taken from the soundtrack of which
tural revenue of the island of Jersey? high-grossing 1991 film?
4. The French word ‘peloton’ usually refers to a 21. In May 1962 the Cathedral of St Michael was
bunched group of competitors in what sport? consecrated; in which city is it? Clue - You
5. Which country was known as East Bengal then may get sent there
East Pakistan until 1971? 22. Who saw The Whole of the Moon in 1985?
6. Which fish is used to make rollmops? 23. Which short-lived Microsoft Windows operat-
7. What sort of sportsman/woman is a pugilist? ing system preceded Windows 7?
8. In what year did the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 24. In Oscar Wilde’s only novel, published in
occur? 1891, what is the name of the character
9. Hallertauer, Saaz, Cascade, and East Kent whose painted image aged instead of him?
Goldings are varieties of what alcoholic drink 25. How many astronauts walked on the Moon in
ingredient? 1969?
10. The Yellow Spot is in what organ of the body? 26. Tivoli Gardens is the second oldest amuse-
11. What name is given to the branch of zoology that ment park in the world. Located near the
concerns the study of birds? central station, in which European capital is
12. Lapsang souchong is a variety of what? it?
13. Nuuk, population about 15,000, is the capital city 27. In the British army which of these contains
of which country? the fewest troops: Platoon, Company or
14. What is the highest number on a roulette wheel? Section?
15. What colour, traditionally, is the Michelin Guide for 28. In botanical terms the word ‘Bract’ refers to
hotels/restaurants? which part of a plant?
16. Dr Alzheimer of Germany first identified the dis- 29. The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is a cocktail
ease Alzheimer’s, true or false? that appears in which trilogy of four parts?
17. How are Conquest, War, Famine and Death col- 30. The markka was the currency of which coun-
lectively known? try, before being replaced by the Euro in
2002?
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1. Tintin 18. Filly 36. Chalk
2. Egypt 19. Gnocchi 37. Alexander
3. Green 20. Discovery Graham Bell
4. Moon 21. Sudoku 38. Denmark &
5. Bill & Ben 22. Liam Neeson Sweden
Answers 23. Black Sheep &
The Quiz
6. Dock leaves 39. Jenson
7. Egg and spoon Theakstons 40. Hair (After years
race 24. 2007 of Alopecia)
8. Russia 25. Grey seal pups 41. War and Peace
9. Blue 26. Body Shop 42. Reading
10. Bradford 27. Justice of the 43. North Yorkshire
11. Church minister Peace 44. Gerwyn Price
12. Three 28. Shiver 45. Mel B
13. The Peso 29. Kanga & Roo 46. Spain
14. March 30. If they’re not wear- 47. Bing
15. Special Air ing a mask 48. Iceland
Service 31. Yellow 49. Cast-iron cook-
16. Middleton 32. 4 M. I. L. N. ware “French
17. Costa del Sol 33. Berlin ovens” (Pots and
(‘Coast of the 34. Nine pans)
Sun’) 35. David Attenborough 50. Lady Gaga
Best pretend headlines of the week: (Fake News)
Church bell ringer says lockdown has taken it’s toll.
Storm Cristoph so violent its blown the end of its own name off.
Criminals queuing up to donate DNA after police data error.
Northerners to be culled to free up hospital beds.
NHS realise it was 350,000 extra PATIENTS a week they were getting post-Brexit.
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Big Six Picture Quiz
QUIZ ANSWERS
1. Indian 18. Argentina Scotland
2. Chianti 19. Wakefield
3. Potatoes 20. Robin Hood:
4. Cycling Prince of Netherlands
Denmark
5. Bangladesh Thieves
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9. Hops 24. Dorian Grey
10. Eye 25. Four
11. Ornithology 26. Copenhagen Belgium
12. Tea 27. Section
13. Greenland 28. Leaf France Germany
14. 36 29. Hitchhikers
15. Red Guide to the
16. True 1906 Galaxy England
Hungary
17. Four Horsemen 30. Finland
of the Poland
Apocalypse
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