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Madrid Pub Quiz · Free Questions
Madrid Pub Quiz

Questions for Quizmasters

A collection of questions for pub quizzes

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This is not a game, there’s no scoring, and questions are provided as a service only. There may be errors: do not use these answers in mission critical or life changing situations. Use at your own risk. There, that should appease the lawyers.


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Acknowledgements &c.

Don’t park yourself in front of the telly after the Christmas lunch when the web offers a host of games for all the family… If you know the fictional company that James Bond often claims to work for is Universal Exports, you may have done too many pub quizzes. But others looking for some questions should go to www.avendano.org/quiz/index.php. It has more than 900 questions in 10 categories, including sport, music and history, all of which can be printed out for quiz masters.
Just like to thank you for your questions that have been used on my impossible pub quiz on John Bowe Saturday Radio Show in Ireland. The show has been going for over 4 years and we have used your questions regularly. Cheers, John

Sources: Encyclopedia Britannica, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, Whitaker’s Almanac, The Compact Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Collins Gem Fact File, Diccionario Enciclopédico Espasa 1 and Wikipedia.


Year 4 and Day 1,237 of WWⅢ
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Слава Україні!

July 14th 2025

It’s day 195 and week 29 of 2025

Today  is Bastille Day

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Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries to the national day of France, which is celebrated on 14 July each year. In French, it is formally called Fête nationale française and legally le 14 juillet. The French National Day is the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, a major event of the French Revolution, as well as the Fête de la Fédération that celebrated the unity of the French people on 14 July 1790.
Source: Wikipedia, image by SKopp., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Today is the last day of the Sanfermines

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The Fiestas de San Fermín, known as Sanfermines, start at noon on July 6th and continue until midnight on July 14th. A firework (the chupinazo) starts off the celebrations and the popular song Pobre de mí is sung at the end. The most famous event is the running of the bulls, every morning from July 7th to the 14th. The popularity of the Sanfermines grew internationally due partly to the description in Ernest Hemingway’s book The Sun Also Rises and the reports he wrote as a journalist. He first visited in 1923, and returned many times until 1959. James Michener also wrote extensively about the festival and bullfighting in his non-fiction book Iberia.
Source: Wikipedia, image by Miguillen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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