Month: November 2021

Pub Type Quizzes from a Real Quizmaster




Club quiz nightThe Intake Social Club. Cnr. of Sandringham Road and Craithie Road Town Moor. Doncaster

Pub Type Quizzes from Real Quizmasters

Writing a good 'Pub Quiz' is not the easiest thing to do, however Bill Turnbull (my chief quiz writer) and I have over eighty years of experience in writing and presenting pub quizzes between us.

That means we have a good idea what type of questions people expect. In our experience we try to make around half of the questions quite easy. This gives the participants some expectation of doing well and won't (hopefully) complain about the quiz being too difficult. Then we fill the remaining questionaire with gradually more difficult questions. There may be an odd one we don't expect to be answered but are often surprised to find someone has answered it correctly.

A good pub quiz should also be fun and a bit of banter will be appreciated. However the quizmaster/presenter must be sure to announce the questions clearly and precisley.

After each round of the quiz that I'm presenting, I ask if anyone requires any questions repeating. Also I will sometimes offer a clue if I suspect that no-one knows the answer.

Bill and I have several quiz websites that offer FREE quizzes for you to use at your local pub or club, or endeed any venue you like. All we ask is that you repect our copyright and don't publish OUR work anywhere. Thanks, Jim Ackroyd and Bill Turnbull.

You will find a list of our FREE Quiz websites here

General Knowledge 57 – freequizuk




General Knowledge 57 – freequizuk

1. FLEW FONDANT FIR (anagram of a sportsman) - Andrew Flintoff
2. Who was American president at the turn of the 21st century - Bill Clinton (1993-2001)
3. Which football league side were once known as New Brompton and Excelsior - Gillingham
4. Whose songs were the subject of Jeff Beck's Crazy Legs album - Gene Vincent
5. The C47 was the military version of which American aircraft - DC3 or Dakota
6. The inhabitants of which English town hanged a monkey during the Napoleonic wars - Hartlepool
7. Which British comedian said "My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of The Lone Ranger - Billy Connolly
8. Which order of monks were known as the Black Monks - Benedictines
9. Which Paralympic sport is also known as Murderball - Wheelchair rugby
10. What was the first Michael Jackson music video to air on MTV - Billie Jean
11. In which Welsh town did a young Prince Charles learn Welsh - Aberystwyth
12. After losing his seat in the 2010 general election, Nick Palmer became the first former MP to do what - Go on the dole
13. According to superstition what would be cured by sleeping on stones - Baldness
14. In maths, what is the more common name for a regular hexahedron - A cube
15 .Which member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band had a starring role in the TV series 'The Sopranos' - Steven Van Zandt
16. Which country was the first to make catalytic converters compulsory on cars - Switzerland
17. Clomipramine, an anti-depressant, had which unusual and notable side effect - Orgasm when yawning
18. Who was nicknamed Acid Raine - Countess Spencer (Diana’s stepmother)
19. When Henry Fonda played Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine who played Doc Holiday - Victor Mature
20. Dragon Whiskers is a type of tea from which country - China

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