THE PUB QUIZ

1 What is the largest island in the Caribbean?

2 Who scored Wales’s only goal at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar?

3 Which writer created Paddington Bear?

4 Who is the voice of Paddington in the films featuring the fictional bear?

5 In darts, how many points is the outer bull worth?

6 The mistral is a wind blowing into the Mediterranean from which country?

7 Which breed of dog gets its name from the Welsh for “dwarf dog”?

8 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago are notable works by which winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature? 9 New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern is the leader of which political party?

10 Who became the first British woman to win an individual all-around medal at the World Gymnastics Championships, when winning bronze at this year’s event, before going on to win a gold in the floor event?

11 Who is the host of the television programme Grand Designs?

12 What is the name of the system which provides the most common classification of books in a library?

13 Which method of cooking, involving frying quickly in a little hot fat, has a name derived from the French verb meaning “to jump”?

14 How many years of marriage are celebrated by a crystal wedding? 15 Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and La Mer are wellknown works by which French composer?

16 Which potter invented jasperware?

17 Hartshead Moor East, voted Britain's worst motorway services in a recent survey by Transport Focus, can be found on which motorway?

18 Which London-born rapper has teamed up with Drake for the chart-topping 2022 album Her Loss?

19 Which city’s cricket stadium is known as the Gabba?

20 In former days, where would a German soldier have worn a pickelhaube?

Snorter of the week: What is the currency of Mauritania?

Solutions on the next page.