Think You Know It All? Try our trivia teasers on everything from football to food taken from new pub quiz book

IF you love nothing more than quiz night at your local, then you’re in luck.

Here, renowned pub quiz question-setter Alex Douglas challenges you to see how you fare at home.

The questions, which are taken from his new book, Think You Know It All?, cover everything from general knowledge to geography.

Try your hand at Alex’s trivia teasers in these exclusive extracts – pints not included!

•  Alex Douglas’s book Think You Know It All? Pub Quiz Questions Poured To Perfection By A Premium Quizmaster will be published in paperback by Michael O’Mara Books on ­September 11, price £12.99.

Sport

1. A silhouette of Jerry West famously features on the logo of which North American sports association?

2. What is the fastest of the four main events in alpine skiing?

3. The National Stud is located two miles outside of which Suffolk town?

4. Which British football club is now co-owned by actor Ryan Reynolds?

5. Which city traditionally hosts the first Test match of the Men’s Ashes series in Australia?

General Knowledge

1. Which car manufacturer’s name translates from Japanese as “three diamonds”?

2. What was the unit of currency in the Netherlands until 2002?

3. Which word in this question is a preposition?

4. One of the world’s most popular fonts was designed in 1931 for which newspaper?

5. What seven-letter name would a social media user most likely call what is otherwise known as an octothorpe?

Letter Exchange

EACH of the film titles below has had one letter changed in every word. Can you work out the correct titles?

1. Ha Ha Wand
2. Sack Teacher
3. Arnie Half
4. Join Dick
5. Hangs On Net Work

True or False

Can you spot the truth among the lies?

1. A species of mammal exists that has six legs.

2. The Winter Olympics has been hosted by a city in the southern hemisphere.

3. At McDonald’s restaurants in Egypt they sell a McFalafel.

4. There are directly opposite points on Earth, or antipodes, that are both in the Pacific Ocean.

5. In men’s football, England have only won penalty shoot-outs under a Labour government.

Food and Drink

1. Red Stripe lager comes from which country?

2. Which minty confectionery brand is a boy’s name backwards?

3. In French cuisine, the adjective “Lyonnaise” means a dish is cooked with which vegetable?

4. Which spice is derived from the dried stigmas and styles of the crocus plant?

5. Fondue originated in, and is considered a national dish of, which country?

Animals and Nature

1. General Sherman is the largest known example of what?

2. Human necks have seven vertebrae. How many does a giraffe’s neck have?

3. The word “lupine” refers to which animal?

4. What is the collective noun for owls?

5. What’s the name of the green pigment found in most plants?

Music

1. Which pop star was born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson in 1984?

2. What “F” is a type of vibrant traditional music and dance associated with Andalusia in Spain?

3. What is the name of Elvis Presley’s mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, where he died in 1977?

4. In 2018, who became the first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music, for his 2017 album Damn?

5. In the lyrics of Paperback Writer by The Beatles “his son is working for” which newspaper?

Football

1. Since 1970, which manufacturer has supplied the footballs for the Fifa World Cup?

2. How many straight lines make up the markings on an Association Football pitch?

3. Who won the Golden Boot in the Women’s Euro in 2022?

4. For which two clubs did Michael Owen and Peter Crouch both score Premier League goals?

5. Juventus FC is based in which city?

Geography

1. In terms of population, what is the second largest city (or commune) in France , after Paris ?

2. Located in the south of England, what is the UK’s only island city?

3. Circo Massimo and Basilica San Paolo are metro stations in which European city?

4. What follows “Lesser” and “Greater” in the names of two major groupings of Caribbean islands?

5. Which US state shares a border with Canada’s Yukon Territory?