Are you looking for a quiz to test your family and friends? Then have a go at this bumper general knowledge quiz supplied by The Six Bells pub in Cambridge.

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These questions work well for a family party or just for a bit of fun with your friends.


Round One - Connection Round

1. Which Jack Nicholson film was based in a mental hospital?

2. Which Irish indie band consists of Alex Trimble, Sam Halliday, and Kevin Baird?

3. Which musical play by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill features the song Mack the Knife?

4. How are Conquest, War, Famine and Death collectively known?

5. What is the name of the children's book by E Nesbit which features the legendary Psammead?

6. What is the name of the musical comedy starring Tommy Steele that was based on HG Wells' novel Kipps?

7. What is the name of the musical film starring Howard Keel, which is based on the Rape of the Sabine Women?

8. What is the name of the wafer thin confectionery made from chocolate and a stiff paste of saccharose, water, and a small amount of the enzyme invertase?

9. What name refers to the number of chalk springs that act as the source for the waterway Hobson's Conduit?

10. Which Cambridge band claim to be the UK's best 2 Tone and ska covers band?

Hobson's conduit (Q9)

Round Two – Art

11. How is painter Doménikos Theotokópoulos commonly known?

12. Which picture by Edvard Munch has been the target of several high profile art thefts?

13. Which Young British Artist caused controversy by incorporating elephant dung in his works?

14. How is La Gioconda better known?

15. Which artist’s grandfather was the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry?

16. Who painted the work Guernica?

17. What was the name of the film starring Charlton Heston which depicts Michelangelo’s life?

18. Who painted The Singing Butler?

19. What is the name of the painting that gave its name to Donna Tartt's 2013 novel?

20. Where in Cambridge will you find a Time Eater?

Pablo Picasso
Who is this artist? (Q16)

Round Three - Another Connection Round

21. In which New York borough is JFK Airport?

22. What is the name of the 1941 novel by AJ Cronin which tells the story of a Scottish Catholic priest, Father Chisholm, who struggles to establish a mission in China?

23. What is the capital city of Antigua and Barbuda?

24. What is the name of the character played by Carrie Anne Moss in the Matrix Films?

25. What is the first name of Mr Darcy, hero of Pride and Prejudice?

26. Which British Prime minister was born at Blenheim Palace?

27. What was the name of the Conservative politician who served as Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and then Speaker of House of Commons until his retirement in 1976?

28. Which Awards salute the improvement of the human gene pool by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it?

29. Whose first novel is entitled The Racehorse Who Wouldn't Gallop?

30. Brothers Jim and William Reid are members of which alternative rock band?

Benjamin Dilloway as Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice - but what is Darcy's first name? (Q25)

Round Four - Science and Nature

31. In which human organ would you find the hypothalamus?

32. Kepler’s laws are three rules which can be used to describe what?

33. In terms of height, what is the world’s largest dog breed?

34. Which gland of the human body is affected by Hashimoto’s disease?

35. Which gardener’s item was invented by Edwin Beard Budding in 1830?

36. ‘Ariane’, ‘Parkland’, ‘Sandow’ and ‘Elton Beauty’ are types of which fruit?

37. What is the term used for a baby ferret?

38. Which size of paper measures 148mm by 210mm?

39. Of what is ‘oenology’ the study?

40. What type of creature is a kob?

Which gardener’s item was invented by Edwin Beard Budding in 1830? (Q35)

Round Five

41. He believed in Father Christmas.

42. Born in Berlin he was best known for playing a Spaniard.

43. Had a Napoleon complex in the 1960s.

44. Founder of Dead or Alive

45. Who said "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in"?

46. Famed for her headscarf and curlers in her most famous role.

47. The original Willy Wonka

48. Who could "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"?

49. Changed his stage name to an unpronounceable symbol also known as the Love Symbol

50. Who was sitting in a tin can far above the world in 1962?

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Q47)


1 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; 2. Two Door Cinema Club; 3 Threepenny Opera; 4 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; 5 Five Children and It; 6 Half a Sixpence; 7 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; 8 After Eight; 9 Nine Wells; 10 Big 10 (Connection - numbers); 11 El Greco; 12 The Scream; 13 Chris Ofili; 14 Mona Lisa; 15 Lucian Freud; 16 Pablo Picasso; 17 The Agony & The Ecstasy; 18 Jack Vettriano; 19 The Goldfinch; 20 On the corner of Benet Street outside the Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College; 21 Queens; 22 The Keys of the Kingdom; 23 St John’s; 24 Trinity; 25 Fitzwilliam; 26 Churchill; 27 John Selwyn Lloyd; 28 The Darwin Awards; 29 Clare Balding; 30 Jesus and Mary Chain (Connection is they are all Cambridge Colleges); 31 In the brain; 32 The motion of planets around the sun; 33 Great Dane; 34 Thyroid; 35 Lawnmower; 36 Apple; 37 Kit; 38 A5; 39 Wine; 40 Antelope; 41 Greg Lake; 42 Andrew Sachs; 43 Robert Vaughn; 44 Pete Burns; 45 Leonard Cohen; 46 Jean Alexander; 47 Gene Wilder; 48 Muhammed Ali; 49 Prince; 50 John Glenn

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