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225 pub quiz questions and answers
Nine ready rounds for a British pub quiz night, from general knowledge to a picture round you can read out loud. Every answer is checked and settled, so the same sheet still works next month.
A full quiz night on one page
A pub quiz is a live team quiz run in a pub, usually five or six rounds of ten questions with a picture round in the middle. This page holds 225 questions and answers, already sorted into rounds. Read them straight off the screen.
Take a whole round as it stands, or pull ten questions from two rounds and build your own mix. The rounds run from general knowledge to a picture round described in words, so you can order the night any way you like. For the full walk through the format, read how to run a pub quiz. For a new set every seven days, look at weekly pub quiz questions.
These questions are free to use in your own quiz. Read them out, copy them onto your own answer sheet, or put them on the pub TV and let teams answer from their phones. No credit needed and no fee.
How to run a pub quiz with these questions
Six rounds, two hours, one quizmaster. This is the order that works in most pubs.
1
Pick five or six rounds
Ten questions per round is the British standard. Put a hard round next to an easy one so the tables at the back stay in the game right to the last answer.
2
Set the pace and hold it
Read each question twice, then give the teams about thirty seconds. A round of ten takes eight to ten minutes at that speed. A quiz that drags loses the room.
3
Choose answer sheets or phones
Give each team a numbered answer sheet and a pen, or let them answer from their phones. Quizado players join by scanning a QR code in a phone browser, so nobody installs an app.
4
Drop the picture round in the middle
Run the picture round after round three. It gives the room a breather, it sends people to the bar, and it buys the quizmaster time to mark the first half.
5
Mark and announce
Swap sheets between tables and read the answers out, or let the app score it for you. Read the table from the bottom up so the winner lands last.
6
Keep a tie-breaker in your pocket
Write one number question that nobody can know, such as the height of a local building in metres. The closest guess takes the prize. Never end a night on a coin toss.
Round 1: General knowledge (40 questions)
The opener. Pick any ten. These are the questions every table can have a go at, so nobody leaves the first round on nought.
- What is the currency of Japan?
Answer: The yen - How many degrees are there in a right angle?
Answer: 90 - What colour is the Circle line on a London Underground map?
Answer: Yellow - Which UK city is served by the airport with the code MAN?
Answer: Manchester - In darts, what is the highest score you can make with three darts?
Answer: 180 - What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Answer: Au - Which planet is closest to the Sun?
Answer: Mercury - How many players from one team are on court in netball?
Answer: Seven - What is the capital of Australia?
Answer: Canberra - The name Big Ben officially belongs to which part of the Palace of Westminster clock?
Answer: The great bell, not the tower - On a UK Monopoly board, what colour is Old Kent Road?
Answer: Brown - How many pennies were in a shilling before decimalisation?
Answer: Twelve - In the acronym NATO, what does the O stand for?
Answer: Organisation - Which Ordnance Survey map series has an orange cover and a scale of 1:25,000?
Answer: The OS Explorer series - What is the largest organ in the human body?
Answer: The skin - Which English county beginning with S shares a border with Wales?
Answer: Shropshire - How many squares are on a standard chessboard?
Answer: 64 - What is the collective noun for a group of crows?
Answer: A murder - Which two colours appear on the flag of Poland?
Answer: White and red - What is the Roman numeral for 50?
Answer: L - How many keys does a standard full-size piano have?
Answer: 88 - What is the world's largest ocean?
Answer: The Pacific Ocean - In the UK, what does MOT stand for?
Answer: Ministry of Transport - Which blood group is the universal donor for red blood cells?
Answer: O negative - What is the highest mountain in Wales?
Answer: Snowdon, also called Yr Wyddfa - How many wives did Henry VIII have?
Answer: Six - Which fictional detective lives at 221B Baker Street?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes - What does WWW stand for?
Answer: World Wide Web - Which nut is the main ingredient of marzipan?
Answer: The almond - In which month is the London Marathon traditionally run?
Answer: April - How many stripes are on the flag of the United States?
Answer: Thirteen - What is the longest river in the United Kingdom?
Answer: The River Severn - Which company makes the PlayStation?
Answer: Sony - Jersey and Guernsey belong to which group of islands?
Answer: The Channel Islands - How many minutes are there in a full day?
Answer: 1,440 - How high above the floor should the centre of a dartboard bullseye be?
Answer: 5 feet 8 inches, or 1.73 metres - Which gemstone is traditionally given for a 40th wedding anniversary?
Answer: The ruby - What is the currency of Switzerland?
Answer: The Swiss franc - In the NATO phonetic alphabet, which word stands for the letter Q?
Answer: Quebec - What is the hardest naturally occurring substance on Earth?
Answer: Diamond
Round 2: Music (30 questions)
Spoken questions, no speakers needed. If you do want tunes, keep the audio clips for a separate name that tune round.
- Which Liverpool band released the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
Answer: The Beatles - Who sang lead vocals on the Rolling Stones 1965 UK number one (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction?
Answer: Mick Jagger - Which Swedish group won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo?
Answer: ABBA - Which Queen song opens with the line "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?"
Answer: Bohemian Rhapsody - Adele has named her studio albums 19, 21, 25 and 30. What do those numbers refer to?
Answer: Her age at the time she wrote and recorded each album - Which Manchester band was fronted by the brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher?
Answer: Oasis - Which instrument did Louis Armstrong play?
Answer: The trumpet - Which red-haired alien rock star alter ego did David Bowie introduce in 1972?
Answer: Ziggy Stardust - How many strings does a standard violin have?
Answer: Four - Who composed the musical Cats?
Answer: Andrew Lloyd Webber - Which UK festival is held at Worthy Farm in Somerset?
Answer: Glastonbury - Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon were the members of which band?
Answer: Queen - Which British music paper published the first UK singles chart in November 1952?
Answer: The New Musical Express, the NME - Which member of the Beatles was known as the quiet one?
Answer: George Harrison - Who released the 1982 album Thriller?
Answer: Michael Jackson - Which Italian composer wrote The Four Seasons?
Answer: Antonio Vivaldi - Which Welsh singer had a hit with Delilah and is known as The Voice?
Answer: Tom Jones - Ed Sheeran released a 2017 album named after a mathematical symbol. What is that album called?
Answer: Divide - Which orchestral instrument has 47 strings and seven pedals?
Answer: The concert harp - Who played the drums for the Beatles?
Answer: Ringo Starr - Which girl group had a 1996 hit with Wannabe?
Answer: The Spice Girls - Which composer set Schiller's poem Ode to Joy to music in the last movement of his Ninth Symphony?
Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven - Which Irish band released The Joshua Tree in 1987?
Answer: U2 - What name was Elton John given at birth?
Answer: Reginald Kenneth Dwight - Which annual prize is awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom or Ireland?
Answer: The Mercury Prize - Diana Ross was the lead singer of which Motown group?
Answer: The Supremes - How many lines are there on a standard musical stave?
Answer: Five - Which 1985 charity concert was staged at Wembley Stadium and in Philadelphia on the same day?
Answer: Live Aid - Which instrument is Slash of Guns N Roses known for playing?
Answer: The electric guitar - Which classical festival runs each summer at the Royal Albert Hall and ends with a Last Night?
Answer: The Proms, also called the BBC Proms
Round 3: Sport (30 questions)
Football, cricket, darts and snooker, with a few from the Olympics. Nothing here depends on this season, so the answers hold.
- How many players does one football team have on the pitch at kick-off?
Answer: Eleven - In which sport do England and Australia compete for the Ashes?
Answer: Cricket - Which football club plays its home games at Old Trafford?
Answer: Manchester United - How many points is a try worth in rugby union?
Answer: Five - At which racecourse is the Grand National run?
Answer: Aintree - How many holes are played in a standard round of golf?
Answer: Eighteen - In tennis, what is the score called when both players reach 40?
Answer: Deuce - What colour must players wear on court at Wimbledon?
Answer: White, almost entirely - How many players are on the pitch for one rugby league team?
Answer: Thirteen - In snooker, how many points is the black ball worth?
Answer: Seven - Which English football club is nicknamed the Gunners?
Answer: Arsenal - How often are the Summer Olympic Games held?
Answer: Every four years - In which sport is the Ryder Cup contested?
Answer: Golf - What is the maximum break in snooker, with no fouls involved?
Answer: 147 - Which boxer was born Cassius Clay and called himself The Greatest?
Answer: Muhammad Ali - How long is a marathon in miles?
Answer: 26.2 miles, or 26 miles and 385 yards - Which country won the 1966 football World Cup?
Answer: England - How many balls are bowled in a standard cricket over?
Answer: Six - Which team did Michael Schumacher drive for when he won the 2000 Formula One world title?
Answer: Ferrari - In which month is the FA Cup final traditionally played?
Answer: May - In which city were the first modern Olympic Games held in 1896?
Answer: Athens - Which sport is played with a shuttlecock?
Answer: Badminton - In darts, how many points is the outer bullseye worth?
Answer: 25 - Which country won both the 2019 and the 2023 men's Rugby World Cup?
Answer: South Africa - What is the diameter of a regulation basketball hoop?
Answer: 18 inches, or about 46 centimetres - Which British athlete won Olympic gold in the men's decathlon in 1980 and again in 1984?
Answer: Daley Thompson - In football, what offence does an attacker commit by standing beyond the last defender when the ball is played?
Answer: Offside - Which stadium hosted the athletics at the 2012 Olympic Games?
Answer: The Olympic Stadium at Stratford, now the London Stadium - Which Scottish football club plays at Ibrox?
Answer: Rangers - Which London cricket ground is known as the home of cricket?
Answer: Lord's
Round 4: Food and drink (25 questions)
The round that goes down well with a pint in hand. A good place to send a table back to the bar.
- Which fruit is used to make traditional cider?
Answer: Apples - What is the main ingredient of guacamole?
Answer: Avocado - Which spirit is the base of a mojito?
Answer: White rum - Which English county gives its name to a pasty with protected status?
Answer: Cornwall - Which pastry is used to make profiteroles?
Answer: Choux pastry - Which cheese is traditionally used in a Greek salad?
Answer: Feta - What is the main flavour of the liqueur Kahlua?
Answer: Coffee - What gives black pudding its colour and its name?
Answer: Blood, usually pig's blood - Which vegetable gives borscht its colour?
Answer: Beetroot - Which British dish is sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding batter?
Answer: Toad in the hole - What is the Japanese dish of sliced raw fish served without rice called?
Answer: Sashimi - Which herb is the main ingredient of pesto?
Answer: Basil - Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are two of the three main Champagne grapes. What is the third?
Answer: Pinot Meunier - What is added to lager to make a shandy in a British pub?
Answer: Lemonade - Which nut goes into a Waldorf salad?
Answer: The walnut - What is tofu made from?
Answer: Soya beans - Which country does Gouda cheese come from?
Answer: The Netherlands - Which pulse is the main ingredient of hummus?
Answer: The chickpea - How many pints are in a UK gallon?
Answer: Eight - Which Scottish dish is made from sheep offal, oats, suet and spices?
Answer: Haggis - Bramley and Cox are varieties of which fruit?
Answer: The apple - Which short-grain Italian rice is the classic choice for risotto?
Answer: Arborio - Which spice is the most expensive in the world by weight?
Answer: Saffron - What kind of food is Wensleydale?
Answer: Cheese - What are the two main ingredients of a Bloody Mary?
Answer: Vodka and tomato juice
Round 5: History and geography (30 questions)
Dates, kings, rivers and capitals. This is usually the round that splits the top two tables.
- In which year did the Second World War end?
Answer: 1945 - Who was the first man to walk on the Moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong - In which year did the Titanic sink?
Answer: 1912 - Which English king was killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
Answer: Harold II, also known as Harold Godwinson - What is the capital of Norway?
Answer: Oslo - What is the longest river in Africa?
Answer: The Nile - Which sea lies between Italy and the Balkan peninsula?
Answer: The Adriatic Sea - Which country lies directly south of the United States?
Answer: Mexico - Which Scottish city is known as the Granite City?
Answer: Aberdeen - Which mountain range forms the border between France and Spain?
Answer: The Pyrenees - In which year did the United Kingdom hold its referendum on leaving the European Union?
Answer: 2016 - Which civilisation built Machu Picchu?
Answer: The Inca - Which country was formerly known as Siam?
Answer: Thailand - Which river flows through the centre of London?
Answer: The Thames - Which is the largest country in the world by area?
Answer: Russia - Which English queen reigned from 1558 to 1603?
Answer: Elizabeth I - Which queen was the last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt?
Answer: Cleopatra, Cleopatra VII - In which country is the city of Marrakesh?
Answer: Morocco - Which two countries share the world's longest international border?
Answer: Canada and the United States - In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?
Answer: 1989 - Which sea separates Great Britain from Ireland?
Answer: The Irish Sea - What is the capital of Canada?
Answer: Ottawa - Which fire destroyed much of the City of London in 1666?
Answer: The Great Fire of London - Which loch holds more fresh water than any other lake in the UK?
Answer: Loch Ness - Which desert covers much of northern Africa?
Answer: The Sahara - Who was the British Prime Minister when Britain declared war on Germany in 1939?
Answer: Neville Chamberlain - Which US state is nicknamed the Sunshine State?
Answer: Florida - Which strait separates England from France at the narrowest point?
Answer: The Strait of Dover - Which Yorkshire city has a cathedral known as the Minster?
Answer: York - Which country gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States?
Answer: France
Round 6: TV and film (25 questions)
Soaps, sitcoms and the big screen. The round where the quiet table at the back wakes up.
- Which BBC soap is set in Albert Square in the borough of Walford?
Answer: EastEnders - Which ITV soap is set in Weatherfield?
Answer: Coronation Street - In which film does a great white shark terrorise Amity Island?
Answer: Jaws - Who directed the 1993 film Jurassic Park?
Answer: Steven Spielberg - Which actor played James Bond in Goldfinger?
Answer: Sean Connery - In Forrest Gump, what does Forrest say life is like?
Answer: A box of chocolates - Which television programme features a blue police box called the TARDIS?
Answer: Doctor Who - Which sitcom follows Del Boy and Rodney Trotter in a Peckham tower block flat?
Answer: Only Fools and Horses - In The Lord of the Rings, which gardener travels with Frodo all the way to Mordor?
Answer: Samwise Gamgee, known as Sam - Which animated film follows a clownfish named Marlin searching for his son?
Answer: Finding Nemo - Which BBC motoring show was presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May?
Answer: Top Gear - Which ITV soap is set in a village in the Yorkshire Dales?
Answer: Emmerdale - Which actor played Harry Potter in the film series?
Answer: Daniel Radcliffe - Which 1997 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet is set aboard a doomed liner?
Answer: Titanic - Which sitcom follows Basil Fawlty running a hotel in Torquay?
Answer: Fawlty Towers - What is the name of the coffee shop in the sitcom Friends?
Answer: Central Perk - In which year did the BBC first broadcast Newsnight?
Answer: 1980 - Which film series follows the agent Ethan Hunt?
Answer: Mission: Impossible - Which Pixar film introduced the toys Woody and Buzz Lightyear?
Answer: Toy Story - On which ITV quiz show do contestants play against a Chaser?
Answer: The Chase - In Star Wars, what is the name of Han Solo's ship?
Answer: The Millennium Falcon - Which sitcom follows three priests living in a parochial house on Craggy Island?
Answer: Father Ted - Which actor played Wolverine in the X-Men films from 2000 through to Logan in 2017?
Answer: Hugh Jackman - Which satirical BBC news quiz first aired in 1990 with Angus Deayton in the chair?
Answer: Have I Got News for You - Which 1942 film includes the line "Here's looking at you, kid"?
Answer: Casablanca
Round 7: Science and nature (20 questions)
Kept at pub level. No formulas and no working out, just facts a team can shout across the table.
- What is the chemical formula for water?
Answer: H2O - How many bones are there in the adult human body?
Answer: 206 - Which gas do plants take from the air for photosynthesis?
Answer: Carbon dioxide - Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
Answer: Mars - Which is the fastest land animal?
Answer: The cheetah - Which is the largest mammal on Earth?
Answer: The blue whale - How many chambers does the human heart have?
Answer: Four - What is the study of fossils called?
Answer: Palaeontology - Which vitamin does the human body make from sunlight?
Answer: Vitamin D - What is the SI unit of force?
Answer: The newton - Which blood cells carry oxygen around the body?
Answer: Red blood cells - At sea level, at what temperature in Celsius does water boil?
Answer: 100 degrees - Which scientist set out evolution by natural selection in On the Origin of Species?
Answer: Charles Darwin - How many legs does a spider have?
Answer: Eight - Which star is closest to the Earth?
Answer: The Sun - What is the chemical symbol for sodium?
Answer: Na - What kind of animal is a natterjack?
Answer: A toad - What is the process by which a caterpillar becomes a butterfly called?
Answer: Metamorphosis - Which part of a plant carries out most of its photosynthesis?
Answer: The leaf - What does DNA stand for?
Answer: Deoxyribonucleic acid
Round 8: Picture round in words (10 questions)
A picture round with nothing to print. The quizmaster describes the image out loud and the teams name it. Every one is a British landmark, so you can swap in your own photos later.
- The picture shows a ring of standing stones on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. Name it.
Answer: Stonehenge - The picture shows a red double-decker bus with an open platform at the back. Name this classic London bus.
Answer: The Routemaster - The picture shows a Thames bridge with two stone towers and a road deck that lifts in the middle. Name it.
Answer: Tower Bridge - The picture shows a giant observation wheel on the South Bank of the Thames. Name it.
Answer: The London Eye - The picture shows a castle on a rock above Princes Street in the Scottish capital. Name it.
Answer: Edinburgh Castle - The picture shows a lattice tower beside the sea in Lancashire, modelled on the Eiffel Tower. Name it.
Answer: Blackpool Tower - The picture shows a rust-coloured steel figure with wide wings beside the A1 near Gateshead. Name it.
Answer: The Angel of the North - The picture shows a domed cathedral in the City of London designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Name it.
Answer: St Paul's Cathedral - The picture shows thousands of interlocking basalt columns on the coast of County Antrim. Name it.
Answer: The Giant's Causeway - The picture shows a tall stone column in Trafalgar Square topped by a statue of an admiral. Name it.
Answer: Nelson's Column
Round 9: Wildcard and anagrams (15 questions)
The last round. Eight anagrams of UK cities, then seven odds and ends about words and letters. Spell the anagrams out slowly, twice.
- Anagram of a UK city: OLD NON
Answer: London - Anagram of a UK city: BRO LIST
Answer: Bristol - Anagram of a UK city: FRAID FC
Answer: Cardiff - Anagram of a UK city: GAS GLOW
Answer: Glasgow - Anagram of a UK city: EDSEL
Answer: Leeds - Anagram of a UK city: RICH NOW
Answer: Norwich - Anagram of a UK city: FOX ROD
Answer: Oxford - Anagram of a UK city: BIG THORN
Answer: Brighton - Which two letters are worth ten points each in English-language Scrabble?
Answer: Q and Z - How many letters are in the English alphabet?
Answer: 26 - What is the word for a word or phrase that reads the same forwards and backwards?
Answer: A palindrome - In the NATO phonetic alphabet, which word stands for the letter Z?
Answer: Zulu - How many letters are in the word onomatopoeia?
Answer: Twelve - What is the collective noun for a group of lions?
Answer: A pride - What is the name for a shape with eight sides?
Answer: An octagon
Once the questions are sorted
The questions are the easy half. The hard half is marking nine rounds while the room shouts at you. Quizado puts the question on the pub TV, takes the answers from the phones in the room and keeps the scoreboard, so the quizmaster only has to read and talk.
Start free with the built-in packs and try a night on a quiet Tuesday. Writing your own question sets starts on Trivia Pro. If you want a fresh set to drop in each week, weekly pub quiz questions has one. If this is your first night behind the microphone, how to run a pub quiz covers the timings, the prizes and the mistakes to skip.
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