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It's time for another set of ten general knowledge questions for use in your next quiz.

 

Today we have questions on a range of subjects including music, famous novels, popular BBC quiz presenters and food & drink. If it's your turn to host this week's quiz, we encourage you to dig out additional rounds from the Pub Quiz HQ archive.

 

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1) 'Glory Days' was a Number One album from which winner of 'The X Factor'?

 

2) 'Pequod' was a whaling ship in which 1851 Herman Melville novel?

 

3) Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present which BBC One quiz show?

 

4) Portobello, Oyster and Shiitake are types of which fungus?

 

5) True or false; ostriches bury their heads in sand to avoid danger

 

6) 'The Murder at the Vicarage', 'Peril at End House' and 'Murder on the Orient Express' are novels from which English author?

 

7) NASA's 'InSight' robotic lander explored which planet during 2018?

 

8) 'The Feathers' is the local pub for which British sitcom family?

 

9) The Bakewell tart or pudding takes its name from a town in which English county?

 

10) 'Once upon a time you dressed so fine / Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?' is the opening line from which Bob Dylan track?

 

 

Answers:

 

 

1) 'Glory Days' was a Number One album from which winner of 'The X Factor'?

Little Mix

 

2) 'Pequod' was a whaling ship in which 1851 Herman Melville novel?

Moby Dick

 

3) Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present which BBC One quiz show?

Pointless

 

4) Portobello, Oyster and Shiitake are types of which fungus?

Mushrooms

 

5) True or false; ostriches bury their heads in sand to avoid danger

False

 

6) 'The Murder at the Vicarage', 'Peril at End House' and 'Murder on the Orient Express' are novels from which English author?

Agatha Christie

 

7) NASA's 'InSight' robotic lander explored which planet during 2018?

Mars

 

8) 'The Feathers' is the local pub for which British sitcom family?

The Royle Family

 

9) The Bakewell tart or pudding takes its name from a town in which English county?

Derbyshire

 

10) 'Once upon a time you dressed so fine / Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?' is the opening line from which Bob Dylan track?

Like a Rolling Stone