19/06/2025
Here are the fairly easy first round questions (15 in total) from a recent pub quiz. Answers included:
1. Which American clothing company marked their 150th birthday in 2003 by producing 501 individually numbered pairs of jeans.
LEVI
2. The Chicago River, which flows through Chicago, Illinois, is dyed green once a year to celebrate which saints day.
SAINT PATRICK – On March 17
3. The entire cast of which 1993 movie were given a Raptor model, signed by director Steven Spielberg as a gift.
JURASSIC PARK
4. Founded in 1875, Al-Ahram, which translates as ‘The Pyramids’, is the most widely circulating newspaper in which African country.
EGYPT
5. Which children’s animated television title character was renamed ‘Dare Dare Motus’ in France, ‘Agente Zero Zero Rato’ in Portugal and ‘Dundermusen’ in Sweden.
DANGERMOUSE
6. 2 Points: Chicago Sports Teams: Both the NFL and NBA teams from Chicago have animal nicknames beginning with the letter ‘B’. For a point each what are they.
BEARS & BULLS
7. Which popular video arcade game of the 1980s derives its name from the Japanese onomatopoeia “paku paku”, which describes the sound of a mouth opening and closing.
PAC-MAN
8. Nissan and Oldsmobile have both used which 1979 Gary Numan number one single in their television ads.
CARS
9. True or False: Boney M band member Bobby Farrell, who often dressed as Rasputin on stage during performances of their hit song ‘Rasputin’, died on the same date of the year and in the same city as Rasputin.
TRUE – They both died in Saint Petersburg on December 30th in 2010 and 1916 respectively
Questions 10 – 14 are on a theme: Lollipops:
10. If typing properly on a QWERTY keyboard the word ‘lollipop’ can be typed using which hand – left or right.
RIGHT
11. In which Roald Dahl children’s novel would you come across bushes that sprout lollipops.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
12. Which American child star sang ‘On the Good Ship Lollipop’ in the 1934 movie ‘Bright Eyes’.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
13. What four-letter word appears on the lollipops carried by school crossing patrol officers in the UK.
STOP
14. ‘Lollipop’ was the codename for the fifth major version of which mobile operating system developed by Google.
ANDROID
15. 4 Points: European Yellow Flag Countries: What are the four largest European countries by area that have the colour yellow on their national flags.
UKRAINE (233,032 square miles) SPAIN (192,466 square miles) SWEDEN (169,334 square miles) GERMANY (138,063 square miles)
