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Pub Quiz
The pub quiz night seems to be enjoying a bit of
a comeback just now. We're all supposed to be a bit too cool for
this sort of thing. It's supposed to be a bit too nerdy for today's
image-obsessed, celeb-wannabe lifestyle. But try telling that
to the hordes of lads with Hoxton fin haircuts and Diesel jeans,
and their fashionable girlfriends, currently cramming pubs on
Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
Maybe it's down to Who Wants to be a Millionaire
and The Weakest Link. Maybe we just feel we need an excuse
to drink that early in the week.
In honour of this British institution, here's a
quiz that allows you to discover: how much of a pub spod are you?
The history of beer and pubs is full of amazing
facts about our development as a nation, not to mention the most
inane trivia. The answers to all the questions below can be found
in Man Walks into a Pub. But for now, see how you do on
your own.
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| 1. In Britain, every year we drink on average
how much beer each?
a) 80 litres
b) 107 litres
c) 128 litres
d) 204 litres
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| 2. In Valhalla, the mythical hall where
slain Vikings got bladdered for all eternity, the finest beer ever
tasted was produced by:
a) A giant drinking horn
b) Brunhilde, the goddess of barmaids
c) A goat
d) A magic bottomless beer barrel
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| 3. In the eighties, a lager-swilling bear
in a yellow nylon jacket and a dodgy pork pie hat proved so popular
in ads that he had to be banned from our screens. What was his name?
a) Eddie
b) Fred
c) Nigel
d) George
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| 4. Which hugely popular 'British' beer
in fact came to this country originally as an export from Canada?
a) Carling
b) John Smiths
c) Foster's
d) Bombardier
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| 5. Which of the following was NOT a cause
of fatalities on the day a beer vat exploded in central London in
1814?
a) Drowning in the initial tidal wave of
beer
b) Crushing in the stampede for free beer
c) A brewery representative being beaten
to death for trying to get people to pay for the beer
d) A riot in the hospital caused by other
patients believing the casualties were being given free beer,
when they were not.
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| 6. At a medical conference in America in
1919, which of the following measures was recommended for people
who drank alcohol?
a) Outright extermination
b) Internment in concentration camps, and
sterilisation
c) A strict regime of prayer and religious
services
d) Counselling and an enforced exercise regime
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| 7. What is the top selling beer brand by
volume in the UK?
a) Carling
b) Stella Artois
c) Fosters
d) John Smith's
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| 8. What characteristic causes us to refer
to some beers as 'real ale'?
a) Fermentation takes place at the top of
the vessel rather than the bottom
b) It's not owned by one of the big corporate
brewers
c) It's dark in colour rather than blonde,
like lager
d) The yeast is still alive in the barrel
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| 9. To the nearest 10,000, how many pubs
are there in the UK today?
a) 60,000
b) 70,000
c) 80,000
d) 90,000
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| 10. In the 1970s, an infamous beer brand
added to its notoriety by sponsoring a football tournament that
introduced the penalty shoot-out to English football for the first
time. What was the beer?
a) Double Diamond
b) Harp
c) Watney's Red
d) Worthington E
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| 11. Louis Pasteur pioneered modern brewing.
What was his primary motivation in studying and improving the production
of beer?
a) He was a passionate drinker and wanted
to taste the best beer in the world
b) Though famous, he was penniless, and wanted
to make his fortune
c) He was interested in the health benefits
of beer
d) He wanted to annoy the Germans
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| 12. Which beer was copied so much by inferior
brews claiming to be the genuine article that it registered itself
as the first ever trade mark in the UK?
a) Guinness
b) Bass
c) Budweiser
d) Tetley's
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