Questions for Quizmasters

A collection of questions for pub quizzes

1579 questions in 10 categories with answers

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10^th January 2009. We've received a very nice message from John Bowe:

Just like to thank you for your questions that have been used on my impossible pub quiz on John Bowe saturday radio show in Ireland. The show has been going for over 4 years and we have used your questions regularly.
Cheers
John

Thank you John!

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About the quiz...

We're a long way from the United States but Triskel is on Calle San Vicente Ferrer 3 (metro Tribunal) and holds its quizzes on Mondays at 10 pm. The quiz is usually on holiday over Christmas and New Year, Easter Monday, and mid-July to the beginning of September.

The quiz is held in English and consists of eight rounds of ten questions. Each round is on a topic or theme and one round may be chosen as a joker round earning double points for each correct answer.

Questions compiled by Luis de Avendaño. Additional questions provided by Alex Carter, Antony Reid, Antonio Vázquez, Declan Forde, Peter Moore, Steve Owen, John Wirnsberger, Clive Mendes, and Jennifer Riggins.

Thanks also to Alan; Alan Chapple; Andy Corder and Mick Watts; Andy Henderson at the Breeze Beer Garden in Thailand; Anthony Anchors; Barbara Ridgely; Billy Painter and Richard Painter; Bob Clarke; Brian Holt; Carter Young; Chris; Chris Goode and Nic Crequer; Chris O'Byrne; Chris Wilkins; Colin Dinnie; Colin Hurst; Damian Considine; Dan Hall; Dave Cohen, ex-teammate; Dave Harrop; Dave Love and Andy Bell; David Heslop; David Regal; Diane Peake; Fithi Garza; Geoff Swaine; George Holdstock; George Pitchley and Colin Hurst; Gerry O'Sullivan of Killarney; Graham Jones; Harry Winfield, question master of the Marina Alto Pensionisters Association in Benitachell, Alicante, Spain; Ian; Ian Gerrard; Irene Harvey from Cellan in Wales; Jake Whiteman; Jeff Hicks; Jim Welsh; Jimmy Rafferty; John Polias; Jonathan Burt; Jurgen Lobert; Karim Nanji, Entertainments Officer, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London; Ken G. Fisher of Toronto; Kevin Magill of the Cayman Islands; Kirsty Taylor; Lesley Melvin; Lucy Boulding; Luke Williams in Switzerland; Lynne and Thierry in Paris, and Steve Hall in Angola; Matt Jones; Mike Jones; Mike O'Shea; Neil Robinson in New Zealand; Nick Dadds; Nick Wilde; Nicola Wood; Oscar Nolan from Dublin; Remo Anniyan; RKN; Russ Hall; Sam Jones PhD, South Wales; Sebastien D. Fortas; Shelley; Sinead Fisher; Steve Rose; Steven Malan; Susanne; Suzy Fewtrell of New Zealand; Ted Bollard from Dublin; Terry Denham; Tim Sharples; Tony Newman; Yvonne Steyn from Somerset West, South Africa; and many others for correcting, amending and fine tuning the questions and answers.

Please send corrections and amendments to These questions have all been used at the Moore's Irish Pub quiz (formerly O'Donnell's) and at Triskel. New questions are added at irregular intervals. However, if 1579 questions are not enough, we recommend you check TriviaBug.

Sources: Encyclopedia Britannica, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, Whitaker's Almanac, The Compact Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Collins Gem Fact File, Diccionario Enciclopédico Espasa 1 and Wikipedia. Web hosting by pair Networks. This page layout was last updated on Friday, February 3^rd, 2012 @ 10:14am CET (Europe/Madrid).

Website designed and maintained by Luis de Avendaño and conforms to level Triple-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and to Section 508 standards. This website was first published on January 1^st, 1999 at www.avendano.org/quiz.