03/09/2026
Here are the first round questions from Home Bar Quiz Wed Sept 2. As with all my quizzes I try to make the first round fairly straight forward (as well as interesting) and accessible to all teams.
I didn't have many teams this evening and perhaps next week may be the last. What I would like to know is what attracts people to quizzes In Edinburgh run (for instance) by Gooses quizzes or Dr Paul Quizzes? In my opinion they are utter drivel. They usually consist of matter of fact type question such as - who wrote that, what's the capital of this country, who starred in this film etc. Just bland after bland questions that never impart any interesting facts.
1. With approximately 1,080 outlets across the UK, how are the German supermarket chain Albrecht Discount better known to shoppers.
2. Because of intense anti-German sentiment during WW1, the German Shepherd dog was officially renamed by the Kennel Club in 1917. What did they call it.
3. On March 2, 1969 which supersonic passenger jet took its first successful test flight.
4. What phrase does Arnold Schwarzenegger first say when refused entry to a police station in the 1984 movie 'The Terminator'.
5. In a standard pack, which playing card shares its name with a Batman villain.
6. Which New York City skyscraper sat largely empty for years after opening in 1931 during the Great Depression, forcing owners to turn on lights in vacant offices to make the tower look busy from the street.
7. In Georgia, a version of which British television quiz show was originally called ‘Vis Unda Otsi Atasi 20000’, which translates as ‘Who Wants 20,000?’.
8. Which Mediterranean island country is also known as ‘George Cross Island’.
9. In which South American country is the city of Medellin – notorious in the 1980s and 1990s as the centre of the cartel run by drug lord Pablo Escobar, the self–proclaimed King of Co***ne.
10. What do the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage musical ‘Starlight Express’ wear on their feet’.
11. In Cockney rhyming slang a ‘Pavarotti’ is what amount of money.
12. Which Britney Spears number one single was accompanied by a music video that was shot at Venice High School in Los Angeles, the same school that was the setting for the film ‘Grease’.
13. True or False: Jane Seymour was the only one of King Henry VIII’s wives to wear spectacles.
14. The flag of which Californian city contains a rising phoenix in the centre, often assumed to refer to the city's recovery from the 1906 earthquake and subsequent fires.
15. 6 Points: Men’s Tennis Grand Slam Singles Nationalities: To date eight male tennis players have won 10 or more Grand Slam singles titles. They come from six different countries. Name these countries.
