Q 01/05

Tim Martin named his pub chain Wetherspoon, founded in 1979, after one of his what in New Zealand?

A) Rugby coaches

B) Landlords

C) Schoolteachers

D) Bank managers

Answer · why

C) Schoolteachers

Schoolteachers: Wetherspoon was a teacher of Martin's in New Zealand known for being unable to control his class, much like the first pub, while the '...

Q 02/05

Once a pub's doors are locked for a lock-in, what are the drinkers still inside said to have become?

A) A members' club

B) A hotel's guests

C) A staff meeting

D) A private party

Answer · why

D) A private party

A private party: the British lock-in began as a reaction to 1915 wartime licensing changes that cut opening hours, and regulars put money behind the b...

Q 03/05

From 1916 to 1919, Britain's state-run pubs forbade customers from doing what?

A) Singing at the bar

B) Buying rounds of drinks

C) Playing cards for money

D) Drinking while standing

Answer · why

B) Buying rounds of drinks

Buying rounds of drinks was banned from 1916 to 1919 under the State Management Scheme, which nationalised the pubs and breweries around the Gretna mu...

Q 04/05

What did Francis Crick announce to lunchtime drinkers at the Eagle in Cambridge on 28 February 1953?

A) The first jet engine

B) The discovery of penicillin

C) A working computer program

D) The structure of DNA

Answer · why

D) The structure of DNA

The structure of DNA: Crick told the pub he and James Watson had 'discovered the secret of life', an anecdote Watson retold in The Double Helix and no...

Q 05/05

William Booth's 1865 sermon outside Whitechapel's Blind Beggar pub led to the founding of what?

A) The Boys' Brigade

B) The Methodist Church

C) The Temperance Union

D) The Salvation Army

Answer · why

D) The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army began as the East London Christian Mission, which Booth set up after that open-air sermon; the pub itself is named after a ballad, ...