PUB QUIZ

Answers on today’s solutions panel.

1 MOVIES:

The director of Hunt For The Wilderpeople and Thor: Ragnarok, Taika Waititi, is from which country?

2 MUSIC:

Karen and Richard are the first names of which brother-sister band from the 1970s?

3 TV & RADIO:

Scrubs and Grey’s Anatomy are two American TV shows set in what sort of location?

4 IRELAND:

The opening 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan were filmed on which beach?

5 HISTORY:

In what year was Martin Luther King assassinated by James Earl Ray?

6 GEOGRAPHY:

Which latitudinal circle runs through Brazil, Madagascar and Botswana?

7 FOOD & DRINK:

Pierogi are a Central European variety of what sort of food?

8 LITERATURE:

Which book opens with the line ‘Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’?

9 WORDS:

The words ‘kvetch,’ ‘shvitz’ and ‘putz’ are all derived from which language?

10 SPORT:

Which retired footballer was the first to score 100 goals in the Premier League?

11 THIS YEAR:

The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held in which country?

12 POT LUCK:

The flag of which country is the reverse of the green, white and orange colours of the Irish flag?