The Pub Quiz Master's Trivia Compendium II

By Theo Sanders

The Quiz Master’s Trivia Compendium contains 50 rounds of trivia, ready to use in your pub quizzes or for casual trivia games with your friends. Written by an experienced quiz master, the trivia has been battle-tested in pubs and quiz games. Volumes I & II of the new & revised editions contain fifty new rounds and updates each, in addition to revisions of the original Compendium published in 2013. Happy quizzing!

Sample questions:

He moved from New York to California during the Gold Rush, he was President of both the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. Today, there is a famous university now named after him. Who is he?

Who was Robben Island Prison’s most famous inmate?

Which European country’s population is about one third less today than it was 150 years ago?

In which movie did Jessica Alba play the role of exotic dancer Nancy Callahan?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Theo Sanders
• Release date: Aug 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005453053

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1. Name an English word that begins and ends with the 3 letters UND.

2. For touch-typists, why is the word Stewardesses unique?

3. Which verb is the only word in the English language with four consecutive vowels?

4. Although owls are mostly solitary creatures, in groups what do they have in common with people who work in Westminster Palace?

5. What is the name of the excrement of bats and sea birds?

6. What does a speleologist study?

7. A lodestone is a chunk of what mineral?

8. Which field of medicine is primarily concerned with the human nervous system?

9. What adjective describes something that is like or related to wolves?

10. What is the opposite of diurnal?

The English Language - Answers

1. Undergound

2. It is the longest English word that can be typed only using the left hand.

3. Queuing

4. The collective noun for owls is a parliament, and Westminster Palace is the seat of the British parliament.

5. Guano

6. Caves

7. Magnetite

8. Neurology

9. Lupine

10. Nocturnal

Cultural Superlatives - Questions

1. In 1996, aged only fourteen, she became the youngest person ever to win a Grammy Award. Who is she?

2. Who created the biggest-selling single in music history with a 1941 rendition of White Christmas?

3. Which 2004 political documentary cost just 6 million dollars to produce, but grossed a then-record-breaking 222 million dollars at the box office?

4. Who has won 31 Grammy Awards, the most of anyone in their lifetime?

5. Inspired by the death of C+C Music Factory founder David Cole, which 1995 song spent a then-record 16 weeks at Number 1 of the Billboard Hot 100 charts?

6. When Sandra Bullock won Best Actress for Blind Side, she became the first person to win both an an Oscar and what other award in the same year?

7. A remake of which song featuring Leona Lewis, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, and Take That to raise funds for the 2010 Haiti earthquake became a number one hit?

8. As what are the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence better known as?

9. How many seasons did the smash HBO show Game of Thrones run for?

10. Which is the best estimate of how many books in the Harry Potter series have been sold globally: 5 million, 50 million, 500 million, or 5 billion?

Cultural Superlatives - Answers

1. LeAnn Rimes

2. Bing Crosby

3. Fahrenheit 9/11

4. Sir Georg Sotti (conductor of Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

5. One Sweet Day

6. a Razzie (or Golden Raspberry)

7. Everybody Hurts by REM

8. Tony Awards

9. 8

10. 500 million

Multimedia - Questions

1. Antonio Stradivarius created objects that are still highly prized today. What are they?

2. Complete the next 4 words of these lyrics: Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide

3. The first Michael Crichton book to be turned into a movie has also been turned into a TV miniseries. Which book was it?

4. In the Scorpions’ 40-year long career as a rock band, why is their 1999 track Du Bist so Schmutzig unique?

5. Which brass instrument produces the lowest pitched sounds?

6. Which type of plant, commonly found on all continents except Antarctica, has come to symbolize dry and desolate places in Westerns?

7. One of the biggest video game industry events is E3. What does that stand for?

8. From which artistic movement, a reaction against the violence of World War I, did Surrealism evolve?

9. The Edgar Awards are awarded annually for the best examples of what genre?

10. Poetry and music share a term. In poetry, it’s a stanza with 8 lines. What is the term?

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