Free Pub Quiz Questions
84 questions with answers across seven categories — read them out, reveal the answer, argue. All drawn from PintHub's trivia library. Use the toggles to reveal answers without spoiling the question.
⚽ Sport
- How many players are on a standard football team?
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11 - In tennis, what term is used for a score of 40–40?
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Deuce - Which country has won the most FIFA World Cups?
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Brazil (5 times) - What is the maximum break in snooker?
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147 - In which sport would you perform a slam dunk?
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Basketball - How long is a standard marathon in kilometres?
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42.195 km - What is the name of Manchester United's home ground?
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Old Trafford - How many Formula 1 World Championships did Michael Schumacher win?
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7 - Who holds the record for the most Premier League goals?
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Alan Shearer (260) - What sport is played at Twickenham?
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Rugby Union - Which England footballer scored a hat-trick in the 1966 World Cup Final?
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Geoff Hurst - How many rings are on the Olympic flag?
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5
🎵 Music
- Which band was Freddie Mercury the lead singer of?
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Queen - What was the best-selling album of all time globally?
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Thriller by Michael Jackson - Which British city is associated with The Beatles?
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Liverpool - Which artist performed 'Purple Rain'?
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Prince - Who sang 'Angels' in 1997?
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Robbie Williams - Who sang the Bond theme 'Skyfall'?
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Adele - Who sang 'Mr Brightside'?
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The Killers - Who is the lead vocalist of Led Zeppelin?
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Robert Plant - Which band released 'Definitely Maybe' in 1994?
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Oasis - What year was Live Aid held?
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1985 - Who sang 'Running Up That Hill' (1985)?
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Kate Bush - Who is the lead singer of the Arctic Monkeys?
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Alex Turner
🎬 Film & TV
- Who directed Titanic (1997)?
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James Cameron - Which actor played Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
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Robert Downey Jr. - In which film does Tom Hanks say 'Life is like a box of chocolates'?
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Forrest Gump - Which British actor played James Bond the most times?
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Roger Moore (7 films) - Who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films?
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Emma Watson - Who directed Pulp Fiction?
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Quentin Tarantino - Which film won Best Picture at the 2020 Oscars?
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Parasite - Who plays Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean?
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Johnny Depp - Who directed The Lord of the Rings trilogy?
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Peter Jackson - Which Disney film features the song 'Let It Go'?
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Frozen - What is the name of the lead character in The Matrix?
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Neo (Thomas Anderson) - What is the name of the fictional country in Black Panther?
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Wakanda
🔬 Science & Nature
- What is the chemical symbol for gold?
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Au - What does DNA stand for?
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Deoxyribonucleic acid - Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
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Mars - How many bones are in the adult human body?
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206 - What is the powerhouse of the cell?
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The mitochondria - What is the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere?
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Nitrogen (about 78%) - How many elements are in the periodic table?
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118 - What is the pH of pure water?
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7 (neutral) - What is the name of the world's first antibiotic?
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Penicillin - What is the largest planet in our solar system?
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Jupiter - What is the process by which plants make food from sunlight?
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Photosynthesis - How many chambers does the human heart have?
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4
🏰 History
- What year did World War II end?
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1945 - In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?
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1989 - What year was the Great Fire of London?
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1666 - In what year was Queen Elizabeth II crowned?
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1953 - Who was the first female Prime Minister of the UK?
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Margaret Thatcher - What year did the Titanic sink?
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1912 - What year did the Soviet Union collapse?
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1991 - In what year did man first land on the Moon?
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1969 - In which country were the first modern Olympic Games held?
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Greece (Athens, 1896) - How many wives did Henry VIII have?
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6 - In what year did the Second World War begin?
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1939 - Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the USA?
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France
🌍 Geography
- What is the capital city of Australia?
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Canberra - What is the longest river in the UK?
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River Severn - What is the capital of Brazil?
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Brasília - What is the largest country in the world by land area?
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Russia - What is the highest mountain in Africa?
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Mount Kilimanjaro - What is the deepest lake in the world?
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Lake Baikal - In which ocean is the island of Madagascar?
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Indian Ocean - What is the capital of New Zealand?
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Wellington - Which country has the longest coastline in the world?
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Canada - What three countries make up Great Britain?
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England, Scotland, and Wales - What is the capital of Spain?
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Madrid - What is the tallest mountain in the world?
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Mount Everest
🎲 General Knowledge
- What is the boiling point of water at sea level in Celsius?
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100°C - In what year did the first iPhone launch?
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2007 - What is the most spoken language in the world by native speakers?
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Mandarin Chinese - How many time zones does Russia span?
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11 - What is the national animal of Scotland?
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Unicorn - Who created Sherlock Holmes?
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Arthur Conan Doyle - What country does Guinness beer originate from?
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Ireland - How many dots are on a standard die across all faces?
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21 - What is the Roman numeral for 50?
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L - Who painted the Mona Lisa?
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Leonardo da Vinci - What year was the first Harry Potter book published?
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1997 - How many cards are in a standard deck, excluding jokers?
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52