Madrid Pub Quiz

Questions for Quizmasters

A collection of questions for pub quizzes

1609 questions in 10 categories with answers

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This is not a game, there’s no scoring, and questions are provided as a service only. There may be errors: do not use these answers in mission critical or life changing situations. Use at your own risk. There, that should appease the lawyers.

New question added on Sunday, 7th May 2023:

Charles II hid in an oak tree in Boscobel Wood to hide from the Roundheads after the Battle of Worcester in 1651 (Commemorated as Royal Oak Day, Restoration Day, or Oak Apple Day)

Random quote on Provincialism

What's the difference between provincialism, which unthinkingly takes its situation for everyone's, and cosmopolitanism, which is confident it has the right to?
James Richardson (1950- )

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Acknowledgements &c.

Don’t park yourself in front of the telly after the Christmas lunch when the web offers a host of games for all the family… If you know the fictional company that James Bond often claims to work for is Universal Exports, you may have done too many pub quizzes. But others looking for some questions should go to www.avendano.org/quiz/index.php. It has more than 900 questions in 10 categories, including sport, music and history, all of which can be printed out for quiz masters.
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

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.


Year 2 — Day 461 of WWⅢ
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Слава Україні!

May 30th 2023

It’s day 150 and week 22 of 2023

Today is the Día de Canarias

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The Canary Islands (Spanish: Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in Macaronesia in the Atlantic Ocean. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Morocco. They are the southernmost of the autonomous communities of Spain. The islands have a population of 2.2 million people and are the most populous special territory of the European Union.
Source: Wikipedia, image by Zirland, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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