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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On Euro bank notes (the initials of the European Central Bank in different languages).

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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 1,207 of WWⅢ
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Слава Україні!

June 15th 2025

It’s day 166 and week 24 of 2025

The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (English: The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry) or Très Riches Heures, was created between c. 1412 and 1416 for the extravagant royal bibliophile and patron John, Duke of Berry, by the Limbourg brothers.
June: Palais de la Cité and the Sainte Chapelle
June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is the second of four months to have a length of 30 days, and the third of five months to have a length of less than 31 days. June contains the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the day with the most daylight hours, and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, the day with the fewest daylight hours (excluding polar regions in both cases). June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa.
The Latin name for June is Junius. Ovid offers multiple etymologies for the name in the Fasti, a poem about the Roman calendar. The first is that the month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, the goddess of marriage and the wife of the supreme deity Jupiter; the second is that the name comes from the Latin word iuniores, meaning “younger ones”, as opposed to maiores (“elders”) for which the preceding month May (Maius) may be named.
Source: Wikipedia, image by Limbourg brothers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Madrid Webcam from madridskyline.net

The Royal British Legion
Madrid Branch

RBL

The Royal British Legion
Madrid Branch

RBL