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Pub Quiz Pack #1: 20 questions for your quiz night
Four rounds in the show's format, from an easy warm-up to one Last Call, with the answers on a separate sheet. Print it at home, at school or at the venue.
Host notes
- Print the question sheet for yourself and keep the answer sheet out of sight until the end of each round.
- Read each question and its four options aloud. Give teams about 30 seconds, or 10 if you want the show's pace.
- Score one point per right answer, or play it like the show: 100 in the Warm-Up Round, 150 in the Main Stage, 250 in the Hard Round, 500 in the Last Call.
- Read out the answers and the fact after each round. The Last Call decides close games.
Written and fact-checked by our team with help from AI tools; every question is checked against a source.
Free to use at your quiz night, pub, school, club or event, including paid events. Please don't sell or republish the questions as your own pack. Credit Trivia Night HQ with a link to trivianighthq.com (any link style is fine).
Trivia Night HQ · Pub Quiz Pack #1
Questions
Round 1: Warm-Up Round
1. On which continent is the Sahara Desert found?
2. Which famous ocean liner sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage?
3. Which planet is nicknamed the Red Planet?
4. Which artist painted 'The Starry Night'?
5. Which river flows through the Egyptian capital, Cairo?
Round 2: Main Stage
6. Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is still largely standing today?
7. Which German craftsman is credited with inventing the printing press in 15th-century Europe?
8. Which gas makes up the largest share of Earth's atmosphere?
9. Which country's national flag is the only one in the world that is not rectangular?
10. What is the longest river in China?
11. Which Baroque composer wrote the violin concertos known as The Four Seasons?
12. Which is the smallest country in the world by area?
13. Who painted 'The Persistence of Memory'?
14. Which organ in the human body produces insulin?
15. Which nut is the main ingredient in marzipan?
Round 3: Hard Round
16. Which mathematician first proved Fermat's Last Theorem?
17. Who wrote the novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
18. Which astronomer lost part of his nose in a sword duel in 1566?
19. Who created the constructed language Esperanto?
Round 4: Last Call
20. Which SI base unit measures luminous intensity?
Free to use at your quiz night, pub, school, club or event, including paid events. Please don't sell or republish the questions as your own pack. Credit Trivia Night HQ with a link to trivianighthq.com (any link style is fine).
Trivia Night HQ · Pub Quiz Pack #1
Answer sheet
For the host. Players, look away now.
1. A. Africa
The Sahara covers about 9.2 million square kilometres, making it the largest hot desert on Earth.
2. B. Titanic
RMS Titanic left Southampton for New York City and sank in the early hours of 15 April 1912.
3. C. Mars
Mars looks red-orange because its surface is rich in iron(III) oxide, better known as rust.
4. C. Vincent van Gogh
Van Gogh painted it in June 1889, inspired by the view from his bedroom window at an asylum in Saint-RĂ©my-de-Provence.
5. B. Nile
The Nile runs north through Egypt and empties into the Mediterranean Sea near Alexandria, forming a large delta.
6. A. Great Pyramid of Giza
It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders, and the only one that has remained largely intact.
7. C. Johannes Gutenberg
Movable type already existed in East Asia, but Gutenberg's press made printing far faster.
8. C. Nitrogen
Dry air is about 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, with argon making up most of the rest.
9. B. Nepal
Nepal's flag is made of two stacked pennants and is also the only national flag taller than it is wide.
10. B. Yangtze
The Yangtze is also the third-longest river in the world, after the Nile and the Amazon.
11. A. Antonio Vivaldi
The four violin concertos give musical expression to the seasons of the year.
12. A. Vatican City
Vatican City covers only 44 hectares (109 acres) and has fewer than 1,000 residents.
13. B. Salvador DalĂ
DalĂ finished the Surrealist painting of soft, melting pocket watches in August 1931.
14. B. Pancreas
Insulin is made by beta cells in the pancreas; when they are destroyed, as in type 1 diabetes, the body loses its own insulin supply.
15. B. Almond
Marzipan is sugar plus ground almonds, sometimes boosted with almond oil or extract.
16. B. Andrew Wiles
After 358 years of effort by mathematicians, Wiles's proof was released in 1994 and formally published in 1995.
17. B. Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez
The 1967 novel follows the BuendĂa family in the fictional town of Macondo.
18. A. Tycho Brahe
Tycho wore a prosthetic nose for the rest of his life; in 2012 researchers reported it was made of brass.
19. D. L. L. Zamenhof
Zamenhof published Esperanto in 1887; it became the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language.
20. A. Candela
One candela is roughly the light of an ordinary wax candle, which is where the name comes from.
Written and fact-checked by our team with help from AI tools; every question is checked against a source. Free to use at your quiz night, pub, school, club or event, including paid events. Please don't sell or republish the questions as your own pack. Credit Trivia Night HQ with a link to trivianighthq.com (any link style is fine).
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