CambridgeshireLive General Knowledge Pub Quiz

25 tricky quiz questions for your night in

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1. From which country does the spirit sambuca originate?

2. Machu Picchu in southern Peru is often referred to as the “Lost city of the what”?

3. Who wrote the 1983 children’s novel, The Witches?

4. Which musician released the song ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ in 2019?

5. Cornwall only shares a border with one other county. Which is it?

6. In Futurama, what is the name of the robot who becomes Fry’s best friend after meeting him in the first episode?

7. Which actor was born with the surname ‘Hershlag’ but adopted their grandmother’s name?

8. What is the name of the character in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations who shut herself away after being jilted at the altar?

9. Helianthus annuus is the scientific name for which flower?

10. In the Jules Verne novel, Phileas Fogg attempted to travel around the world…

11. Codebreaker Alan Turing and his colleagues were famous for their wartime work at:

12. Who won the 2019 Mercury Prize for his album, Psychodrama?

13. Which of the following is known as the ‘Red Planet’?

14. Where was the rally of the then-Labour leader Neil Kinnock held in 1991, which was later described as ‘triumphalist’ and as a reason behind his election defeat a week later?

15. Fictional fox Basil Brush has which catchphrase?

16. Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown married the son of which rock musician in May this year?

17. Which 2013 film is based on the relationship between aspiring painter Emma (played by Léa Seydoux) and teenager Adèle (played by Adèle Exarchopoulos)?

18. The first modern trampoline was built by George Nissen and Larry Griswold in what year?

19. Emetophobia is fear of what?

20. Which of the following is NOT a Pink Floyd song?

21. Which of the following is a form of sign language?

22. Set in Scotland, this 1993 novel follows the lives of a group of heroin users and their associates?

23. What year did the smoking ban come into force in England, making it illegal to smoke in enclosed workplaces?

24. In which country is the Day of the Dead widely observed?

25. Which company made Barbie?

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