General Knowledge Pub Quiz (Free Printable) 125337

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1. Q: What does the royal family use as confetti at a wedding?
   A: Dried flower petals for confetti, specifically favouring delphiniums, cornflowers, and rose petals for their shape and colour retention.
2. Q: What does an anosmic lack?
   A: The total loss or inability to smell. Lacking this sense, an individual cannot detect odours (such as smoke, gas, or perfume), experiences significantly reduced taste (food tasting bland or indistinguishable), and may face safety risks, loss of appetite, or reduced enjoyment of life.
3. Q: How many lines make up a single digit on a standard digital clock?
   A: 7 line segments (3 horizontal, 4 vertical), often called a 7-segment display. By switching these specific segments on or off, all digits from 0-9 can be formed, with the number “8” using all 7 segments.
4. Q: Which manufactured product was the first to pioneer the hire-purchase system, achieving widespread sales?
   A: The Singer sewing machine. In 1856, Edward Clark—a partner in I.M. Singer & Co.—devised the “hire-purchase plan” (then often called the “time-payment plan”). At the time, a Singer sewing machine cost roughly $100, which represented several months’ wages for the average worker. Because most families couldn’t afford the upfront cost, sales were stagnant despite the high demand.
5. Q: What is Princess Aurora’s better-known name?
   A: Sleeping Beauty. Specifically, this character stars as the protagonist in the 1959 Disney animated classic. Meanwhile, she uses the pseudonym Briar Rose, which the three good fairies chose to hide her identity from Maleficent.
6. Q: What aid to calculation did William Oughtred invent in the 1620s?
   A: Slide Rule. Oughtred, an English mathematician and clergyman, developed the slide rule by combining two logarithmic scales (based on the work of Edmund Gunter) to perform direct multiplication and division, eliminating the need for dividers.
7. Q: From which common condition would you be suffering if you had “podobromhidosis”?
   A: Smelly feet or simply foot odour. The term is a combination of podo- (foot) and bromhidrosis (foul-smelling sweat).
8. Q: What is the most common surname in the UK?
   A: Smith. With over 500,000 bearers. It is an occupational name for a metalworker, widespread across England and Scotland. The top three surnames in Britain are consistently Smith, Jones, and Williams.
9. Q: In Elizabethan England rich people carried their own folding what to Banquets?
   A: Knife and spoon. While some elite households began providing cutlery toward the end of the 16th century, it was standard practice for guests to bring their own personal dining tools, often kept in a case or pouch (sometimes called a gypcière).
10. Q: What is the right side of a ship called when facing forward?
    A: Starboard. This term originates from the Old English stéorbord, referring to the side where the steering oar was traditionally placed. It is identified at night by a green navigation light.