Pub Quiz July 10th 2023

Which Middel Eastern City is also the name of a type of artichoke?

The first perforated UK postage stamp, issued in 1854, was the Penny Red.

What year did the Titanic sink in the Atlantic Ocean on 15 April, on its maiden voyage from Southampton?

What is the main source of vitamin C?

Who plays a predatory femme fatale, in the 1987 thriller ‘Black Widow’?

The first atomic bomb was dropped on which Japanese city?

Roughly what proportion of their DNA do humans and chimpanzees share?

‘The Godfather’ was released in 1972; who played the title role?

Which influential and controversial 1970s thriller starring Clint Eastwood featured a serial killer called Scorpio

Particle accelerators were first devised so scientists could reproduce what conditions?

Which country is regarded as the primary practitioner of the game of polo?

Who won an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of American activist Malcolm X?

In what year did Apollo 11 first let people walk on the moon?

What was Alex Haley’s slave drama, screened in the 1970s and still one of the most watched dramas in the US TV history?

What is the name of the possessed girl played by Linda Blair in ‘The Exorcist’?

Nostradamus was famous for making what?

Which former England football international goalkeeper was killed in the Manchester United Munich air disaster?

Who was I in the ‘I Am Legend’?

Who played James Bond in “For Your Eyes Only”?

What was England's first purpose-built football stadium, opened in 1892?

What is the measure of electrical charge?

Which cartoon character's given names are officially 'Bartolomew JoJo'?

Which actor provided the voice for the character Nemo in the 2003 film Finding Nemo?

The Velocipede was a nineteenth-century prototype of what?

The Soviet Union and seven other countries signed which mutual assistance treaty in 1955?

What name is given to a biological process that sets itself naturally to a 24 hours cycle?

Which British actor died whilst still filming his supporting role in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator?

Which British actor won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for his work in the HBO drama series ‘Homeland’?

'God Bless America’ was a 2012 movie made by which comic film-maker and actor?

How many of Henry VIII's wives were called Anne?

Who was Prime Minister when Britain joined the European Union?

On 19 August 1968, Soviet tanks rolled into which country?

In which year did the Battle of Waterloo take place?

Who starred in the defining 1958 Hammer Horror version of Dracula as the urbane but terrifying Count?

Who is best known for his theory of black holes?

When was the first tennis championship played in Wimbledon?

The chemical symbol Y denotes which uncommon metal?

What team did Jackie Robinson play for?

Which Bruce starred in “Die Hard”?

Zn is the symbol of which chemical element?

Which English monarch had the shortest reign, at just nine days?

What is the middlename of Wolfgang Mozart?

In 1995, Jack Russell took how many catches in a Test to create a new world record?

An absence of the SRY gene means what for a human being?

The two women who won the women's doubles for the USA at the 1992 Olympics had the same surname, what was it?

Which side of the brain would be mostly used to evaluate whether a wardrobe fits into the space available in a bedroom?

In which month of which year did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?

Britain's oldest Sunday newspaper, Observer, was first published in 1791?

What does the term BHP stand for?

The traditional Claret Jug is the trophy awarded to the winner of which annual sporting event?

What is the name of the villain in the first Superman movie (1980) played by Gene Hackman?

Who, in 1991, became the first driver to win the first four races of a Formula One grand prix season?

What was the nationality of Eugenio Monti, a bobsleigh driver who won 11 world titles?

Luke Skywalker is best known for the line "I am your father"

Nicotine typically makes up between 0.5% and 3% of the dry weight of tobacco?

In what year was the first university in Bologna, Italy, founded?

In 2012 Lewis Hamilton announced he was leaving McLaren to drive for which other Formula 1 team?

What does a Geiger Counter measure?

What year was the Great Fire of London?

What is the closest capital city to London?

What is dermatophobia the fear of?

Who was the first black player to play in baseball’s major leagues in 1947?

Which volcano erupted in 1906, causing huge damage and over 100 deaths in the city of Naples?

Who has scored a record 277 points in Rugby World Cup football?

Who invented the Flying Shuttle in 1733?

Who was named the Sportsman of the Century in 1999 by both the prestigious US magazine ‘Sports Illustrated’ and the BBC?

In which ocean is an island so remote it was named inaccessible Island?

Which country was invaded during Operation Barbarossa?

What is the third most common gas in the earth’s atmosphere after Nitrogen and Oxygen?

How many hearts does an Octopus Have?

Which city was the first capital of the Russian Empire in the ninth century?

If you were an LLD, what profession would you be involved in?

With which sport is Silverstone most associated?

What is the world's largest land mammal?

Which country staged the last FIFA World Cup Final of the 20th century outside Europe?

Mark Hughes scored both goals in the final as Manchester United lifted Alex Ferguson’s first European trophy in 1991?

What is Prince William's second name?

In mythology, Romulus and Remus were brought up by dogs?

Which country became the first to give women the right to vote in 1893?

The Alps mountrain range DOES NOT stretch over this country