PUB QUIZ

Answers on today’s solutions panel.

1 MOVIES:

When Harry Met Sally, Stand By Me, and This Is Spinal Tap were all directed by which filmmaker?

2 MUSIC:

Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares 2 U is a cover of a song by which funk musician?

3 TV & RADIO:

Elaine, Jerry and George are three of the main characters from which 1990s US sitcom?

4 SPORT:

Which tennis player knocked Roger Federer out of Wimbledon 2018 in the Quarter-final?

5 GEOGRAPHY:

The Aral Sea, which has completely dried up over the last 40 years, lies between which two nations?

6 ART:

Which 1910 work by the French artist Henri Matisse shows a circle of nude people?

7 IRELAND:

What is the primary ingredient in the traditional dish Boxty?

8 LITERATURE:

Margaret Atwood, author of The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid’s Tale, was born in which country?

9 WORDS:

What is the meaning of cataclysm? a) a coma, b) a part of the Catholic mass, c) a world-altering event.

10 POT LUCK:

The railway town of Crewe is located in which country?

11 THIS YEAR:

Which country endured its deadliest volcanic eruption in more than a century in June?

12 RELIGION:

What is the word used to describe the puncture wounds on the hands of Jesus Christ?