As explained in this piece from last month, I have been asked to host a Sunday night quiz at a local pub. Here’s a record of the 50 questions for the most recent quiz (Sunday 6 October 2024).

Round 1: General Knowledge

1. What is the capital city of Mozambique?
2. Who is Kamala Harris’s running mate in the US Presidential election?
3. How many English managers are there in the Premier League?
4. Who wrote “The Diary of a Wimpy Kid”?
5. What is the chemical symbol for the element Antimony?

Round 2: Music: #1s and #2s

Here are five songs that reached #1 in the UK for one artist and #2 for another artist. Both artists are listed here. Simply tell us which version of the song reached #1:

1. American Pie: Don McLean (1972), Madonna (2000)
2. Take on Me: A-Ha (1985), A1 (2000)
3. A Little Bit More: Dr Hook (1976), 911 (1999)
4. Hallelujah: Alexandra Burke (2008), Jeff Buckley (2008)
5. I Have a Dream: Abba (1979), Westlife (1999)

Round 3: US State Capital, or not?

In some US States, the state capital is the biggest, most populous city. In other cases it is not. Which of the following are state capitals, and which are not?

1. Boston, Massachusetts
2. Seattle, Washington
3. Atlanta, Georgia
4. Denver, Colorado
5. New York, New York

Round 4: Music: The Same Word 3 times

You will hear part of five songs whose titles consist of the same word repeated three times. What is the word in each case?

1. Abba, 1976
2. Andrea True Connection, 1976
3. Paul McCartney, 1983
4. Destiny’s Child, 1999
5. The Damned, 1976

Round 5: Identify the following tube stations

 

End of Part One

Round 6: Oscar Winning Monarchs

The following people all won Oscars for playing English monarchs in films released in the years shown. But which monarchs?

1. Helen Mirren, “The Queen” (2006)
2. Colin Firth, “The King’s Speech” (2010)
3. Olivia Colman, “The Favourite” (2018)
4. Judi Dench, “Shakespeare in Love” (1998)
5. Charles Laughton, “The Private Life of …” (1933)

Round 7: First, last or somewhere else

1. In an alphabetical list of the countries of the world, using their usual English names, which country comes first?
2. In the colours of the rainbow, starting with the colour RED, which colour comes fifth?
3. Which station is at the eastern, northern end of the Piccadilly Line?
4. In Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, which of the seven dwarfs has the shortest name?
5. The Baltic States are Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. When you look at them on a map, which one is furthest north?

Round 8: #1s with Boys names in the title

1. Don McLean,1972
2. Abba, 1976
3. The Shamen, 1992
4. Eminem, 2000
5. Gaitan/ Castillo /Adassa / Feliz, 2022

Round 9: Have a Guess

1. Which Polish composer gives his name to a Warsaw piano competition?
2. A 1915 opera by Max von Schillings was inspired by which Leonardo da Vinci portrait?
3. About 1000 elephants were used in the construction of which Asian Mausoleum?
4. Which Trinidad-born rapper guested with Little Mix on their single “Woman Like Me”?
5. The Onyx River is the longest river in which continent?

Round 10: General Knowledge, Part 2

Identify the following people, whose names are alliterative:

1. Which singer had a #1 hit in 1979 with “I Will Survive”?
2. Name the German football manager who was in charge at Chelsea FC between January 2021 and September 2022.
3.  Who was the poet laureate from 1843 to 1850, author of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (also known as “Daffodils”)?
4. Which former Labour MP was “Mother of the House” (the politician with the longest unbroken run as an MP) until July 2024, when she stood down?
5.  Which TV presenter, and now musical theatre star, won the 2016 series of “Strictly Come Dancing” in partnership with Joanne Clifton?