09/09/2026
Here are the Round 1 questions from this week's Home Bar Quiz. Just one team got them all correct.
1. The village of Thal, two miles west of Graz, Austria is home to a museum dedicated to which celebrity, the winner of seven Mr. Olympia bodybuilding titles.
2. Several notable streets in London, including Fleet Street, Park Lane, Oxford Street and Grosvenor Street all lack which street number due to historical superstitions surrounding the number.
3. The name of which animal, commonly kept as a pet, is also a term for a poor sportsman, especially a cricketer, and if preceded by ‘rampant’ is also the name of the biggest-selling and most iconic Ann Summers product.
4. Anthony Hopkins studied films of serial killers and visited prisons to study convicted murderers in preparation for his role in which 1991 movie.
5. Which character from the Beano comic was created when writer Ian 'Smokey' Gray told the artist to take his owner Dennis's hair, add four legs, eyes, a nose, and a mouth.
6. Guillotine is a card game created by Wizards of the Coast and designed by Paul Peterson. The game is set during which revolution.
7. Former Smiths frontman Morrissey, claimed in his 2013 autobiography that he was once offered a role as an unmentioned long-lost son of the character Dot Cotton in which television soap.
8. Essential for a good traditional pesto and margherita pizza, which green herb lends its name to a fictional fox puppet and a fictional hotelier.
9. Which Cuban politician quit smoking ci**rs in 1986. He was also fluent in English, but refused to speak it anymore, even in public or private interviews because he considered it to be "the language of his enemies".
10. Hosted by Andrew Cotter, Eddie Pepperell and Iain Carter, ‘The Chipping Forecast’ is a podcast dedicated to which sport.
11. Which American mobster often passed off the scar on his face as a wartime wound and preferred to have his picture taken from the right side of his face, the side without a scar.
12. Born Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin in 1961, under what one-word name did this Irish singer top the UK charts in 1988 with a song about a South American river.
13. True or False: Country singer Dolly Parton died on August 25, 2026, the same date on which Dolly the Sheep died in 2003.
14. Which American state capital is named for its close proximity to a massive and highly saline body of water located just northwest of the city.
15. 5 Points: iPhone Apps Beginning With ‘C’: Name any five of the six built-in iOS apps beginning with the letter ‘C’ that come pre-installed or are included through system updates on Apple iPhones.
