Are you a champion pub quizzer? Take our general knowledge quiz to prove it
IF brainy Pete and his pals keep crushing you in the pub quiz, best swot up.
New book The Ultimate Quiz Night has 500 quizzes and 10,000 questions, Natasha Harding picks 20 posers for you to try.
The answers are below.
- Extracted from Collins Ultimate Quiz Night (Collins, £9.99) collins.co.uk/ultimatequiznight.
1. NAMED for the author of the first scientific paper on the topic, Daltonism is better known as which affliction?
2. WHICH company makes Feast ice creams?
3. WHICH royal palace was built by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey but is most associated with Henry VIII, to whom Wolsey either gave it or had it seized by?
4. WHICH historic merchant bank was bankrupted in 1995 by the illicit dealings of rogue trader Nick Leeson?
5. OF the four gospels in the New Testament, which one comes last?
6. HOW many counties are there in Northern Ireland?
7. WHICH instruments were “duelling” in a scene from the film Deliverance?
8. WHAT are Universal Product Codes more commonly known as?
9. MANDY, Zak and Charity are members of which soap opera family?
10. WHICH cartoon characters were originally named by their Belgian creator Peyo as Les Schtroumpfs?
11. WHO was the first boxer to be awarded a knighthood?
12. WHICH is the only London Underground station whose name contains a Z?
13. GODALMING, Dorking, Woking and Leatherhead are all towns in which English county?
14. IN the book The Whispering Land, the author and naturalist Gerald Durrell tells stories of collecting animals for his zoo founded on which Channel Island?
15. “YOU’LL be a man, my son” is the final line to which Rudyard Kipling poem?
16. LEE CHILD has written a series of thriller novels about which former American military policeman roaming the country taking odd jobs?
17. IN which Shakespeare play does the recurring character of Falstaff die, even though he never appears in it?
18. WHICH tennis legend was, during his career, known as Superbrat?
19. IN which country would you find the Southern Alps?
20. TYNWALD is the English name for the legislature of which small self-governing British Crown Dependency island?
Answers
ANSWERS: 1 Colour blindness; 2 Wall’s; 3 Hampton Court Palace; 4 Barings Bank; 5 John; 6 Six (Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Derry and Tyrone); 7 Banjos; 8 Barcodes; 9 The Dingles (Emmerdale); 10 The Smurfs; 11 Sir Henry Cooper; 12 Belsize Park; 13 Surrey; 14 Jersey; 15 If; 16 Jack Reacher; 17 Henry V; 18 John McEnroe; 19 New Zealand; 20 Isle of Man