PUB QUIZ

1 MOVIES:

Which classic 1986 film has the tagline ‘One man’s struggle to take it easy’?

2 MUSIC:

Which song opens with the line ‘When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now’?

3 TV & RADIO:

Daniel Thorndike and Miriam Margolyes played which puritanical couple in Blackadder II?

4 SPORT:

Who is the only Russian tennis player, male or female, to win a Wimbledon singles title?

5 SCIENCE:

Which chemical element is named after the creator of the original periodic table?

6 POLITICS:

How many former US presidents are still alive?

7 HISTORY:

Which English explorer, writer and courtier, who was executed in 1618, made two expeditions attempting to locate the fabled city of El Dorado?

8 ART:

Damien Hirst’s 1991 work The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Someone Living features which animal preserved in formaldehyde?

9 WORDS:

What is the meaning of the word disembogue? a) Vanish, b) Flow out, c) Steal.

10 IRELAND:

Which Cork village claims to be our highest settlement at 254 m/832 ft?

11 THIS YEAR:

Which singersongwriter, a founder member of post-punk band The Fall, died on January 24?

12 POT LUCK:

The name of which font is derived from the Latin name for Switzerland?