Questions for Quizmasters

A collection of questions for pub quizzes

1578 questions in 10 categories with answers

Copyleft: feel free to use these questions in your quizzes.

Madrid Pub Quiz by Luis de Avendaño is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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'Which 20th century dictator ordered that all sparrows in the land be killed?'

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Fame at last

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...

Madrid Me Mata is on Corredera Alta de San Pablo 31 (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;
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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 1578 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.. This page layout was last updated on Saturday, September 15^th, 2018 @ 7:42pm CEST (Europe/Madrid).

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