While we’re stuck indoors, why not pit your wits against our quiz? Bridgend Quiz League general secretary Steve Kingscott has put together these posers for fun – can you get them all right? For more information about the league, which is suspended during
1. St Martin’s, St Agnes and St Helen’s are lesser known islands of what UK island group?
2. In the early 1970s an unnamed student was paid $35 to design which famous sports logo?
3. Eaten by the Romans as a delicacy, the glis glis is an edible type of which rod ent?
4. David Bowie had number one hits in the UK with which three acts?
5. Which two stations are nearest each other on the London Underground?
6. What famous US motor race was initially known as The International Sweepstakes?
7. Phagophobia is what irrational fear?
8. Which colourful named singer was born Alecia Moore in Pennsylvania in 1979?
9. What is the world’s most densely populated principality?
10. Which entertainment organisation’s motto is, ‘Not apt to disclose secrets’?
11. Which part of the body was transplanted for the first time in 1905?
12. Which English football team was the first to have an all-seater stadium?
13. What brewery in Wales were the first outside the USA to sell beer in cans?
14. Which famous battle took place in the Crimea on 25th October 1854?
15. Of what unusual substance was the US warship SS Selma constructed?
16. How deep is a fathom of water?
17. Jones the Steam drove which cartoon train?
18. Ailsa Craig, Setton and Snowball are which type of vegetable?
19. Where did the last French invasion of Britain take place in 1797?
20. The late Dave Rainford was a regular contestant on which BBC TV quiz show?
21. What Oscar winning film was made in 1937 and re-done in 1954, 1976 and 2018?
22. What is the Italian foodstuff ‘Pecorino’?
23. The Alboran Sea is a part of which larger sea?
24. The footballer Wayne Rooney earned his first cap as a substitute against which country in 2003?
25. What wine grape gets its name from the French word for blackbird?
26. In 2005, which knighted actor played Mel Hutchwright in Coronation Street?
27. Which springflowering plant derives its name from the Latin for fir st?
28. With what musical instrument is Scotland’s Nicola Benedetti associated?
29. What gemstone is traditionally associated with a 20th wedding anniversary?
30. In 1975 Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to conquer what?