pub quiz

When and where was the first swimming pool built?

• Mohenjo-Daro in modern-day Pakistan,

  3rd millenium BC

• Rome, 1st century B.C.

• Britain, mid-19th century

• Massachussets (USA), 1887

Who used the first toothpaste?

• The English, around 1780

• The Chinese, around 1.600 BC

• The Chinese and the Indians, around 500 BC

• The ancient Egyptians, 5,000 BC

When was the first pencil made?

• 17th century

• 18th century

• 16th century

• 19th century

1.      What is the Doomsday Book?

• a fantasy series

• a horror comic book

• a book about the end of the world

• a book about land

“She’s leaving home” is the title of what?

• A Beatles song (1967)

• A poem by H. W. Auden (1935)

• A romantic film

  (1989)

• A novel by Sandy Taylor (2017)

Which is the largest inhabited castle in the UK?

• Windsor

• Edinburgh

• Leeds

• Dover

Which is the odd one?

• Hyde Park

• Central Park

• Kensington Park

• Covent Garden

What are these?

burp, hum, hiccup, groan, slurp

What are they?

Guggenheim                      Prado                       Tate               d’Orsay

What do these people have in common?

Joseph Conrad      Vladimir Nabokov  Samuel Beckett 

Guillaume Apollinaire  Ágota Kristóf