Quiz 2026

ByMatt

Quiz Questions

Picture round

Round 1

  1. Who won the Wimbledon men’s or women’s singles title this year? (1 point maximum)
  2. Name two of the four football teams at the recent World Cup whose names began with the letter A.
  3. Which country won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest?  If you don’t know you may have a point for the singer, the song name – or if you can actually sing it.
  4. What is the only country in the world whose national flag is not rectangular or square?
  5. Who is taller: Tom Cruise or Judi Dench?
  6. Which happened first: the last recorded fatal adder bite in the UK, or the birth of Lewis?
  7. Last year’s 100-mile race through the Lake District had 771 starters. The winning time was 19 hours 33 minutes. How many runners actually finished?  Was it 160 or 460?
  8. What links our conductor Leo Byrne, the 35th President of the USA, Roald Dahl’s largest creation, and the British organisation representing people who own or run agricultural businesses?
  9. What single 3-letter word goes before page, part and pant to make three new seven-letter words?
  10. This is an anagram of a famous UK landmark: RED SEA NIGHTCLUB

Individual Challenge Round

  1. Choose someone who looks most likely to know about capital cities.
    • Point to Madrid. Closest wins.
  2. Choose someone different.
    • Point to a person who is exactly 5 metres away. (Finger to tip of nose.)
  3. Choose person 3.  Everyone else hums one note on one breath. They must count how long the collective hum lasts.  I will time it.
    • Last person humming wins a bonus point for their team.
  4. Person 4.
    • Close your eyes.
    • Is there a clock on the wall?
    • How many windows are there?
    • Which wall is the fire extinguisher on?
    • Finally, point to Janet.
  5. Person 5.
    • Write down the name of an animal.
    • Score 1 point only if exactly one other team writes the same animal.
  6. Person 6.
    • Draw the animal your previous teammate described.  Points for best drawing. 
  7. Person 7.
    • What is the exact time now?
  8. Person 8.
    • Stand up.
    • You represent your team.
    • Hold up A or B.
    • Wrong answer = sit down.

Higher or Lower

  1. Longer
    1. A = River Thames
    1. B = River Nile
  2. More teeth
    1. A = Adult human
    1. B = Great white shark
  3. Higher
    1. A = The Shard
    1. B = Loughrigg Fell
  4. Heavier
    1. A = The Moon
    1. B = All the water in Earth’s oceans
  5. More windows
    1. A = Buckingham Palace
    1. B = The White House
  6. Furthest east
    1. A = Moscow
    1. B = Baghdad

Physical round

Basically, the telephone game but with no sound.  The first person chooses a creature and an action from the folded papers and we show the audience.  All other team members have their backs to the action at the start.  The first person mimes it to the second person, who then mimes it to the third person, etc.  The final person has to guess what it is. 

ThingAction
A spy
A flamingo
A bodybuilder
An octopus
Quasimodo
A crab
A giraffe
A butler
A pirate
A toddler		Folding a huge paper map
Uncorking and spraying a bottle of champagne
Putting on a duvet cover
Trying to drink a thick milkshake on a rough ferry
Escaping from quicksand
Trying not to wake your roommate
Untangling Christmas lights
Charming a snake
Trying to get mobile signal in the Bishop Bulley Barn
Painting the Sistine Chapel

Points awarded for style, accuracy, making us laugh.  Bonuses or penalties also apply. 

Tie-break

How many official candidates are standing in the Clacton by-election on 13 August?

Tie breaker 2 – first to shout out the answer wins – what’s the funniest planet?

Answers

Picture round

  1. Michelle Obama
  2. Elton John
  3. La Sagrada Familia
  4. Skiddaw
  5. A death’s-head hawkmoth, from the film poster for Silence of the Lambs
  6. The logo for OpenAI (ChatGPT)
  7. Barney Gumble
  8. Dingbat – back seat driver
  9. Erling Haaland
  10. spaghetti
  1. Jannik Sinner (Men) or Linda Nosková (Women) (1 point maximum)
  2. Any two of:
    • Algeria
    • Argentina
    • Australia
    • Austria
  3. Bulgaria (“Bangaranga” – Dara)
  4. Nepal
  5. Tom Cruise (5 ft 7 in vs Judi Dench 5 ft 1 in)
  6. The adder bite (1975) before Lewis (1978)
  7. 460
  8. The middle initial F
  9. Ram (Rampage, Rampart, Rampant)
  10. Edinburgh Castle

Higher or Lower

  1. B – River Nile
  2. B – Great white shark (around 300 teeth at any one time)
  3. B – Loughrigg Fell (335 m above sea level vs The Shard 309.6 m)
  4. A – The Moon (around 52 times the mass of all Earth’s oceans combined)
  5. A – Buckingham Palace (760 windows vs about 147)
  6. B – Baghdad

Tie-break

How many official candidates are standing in the Clacton by-election on 13 August?

Answer: 34

Which is the funniest planet?

Answer: doesn’t matter – this was about speed!

And the winners were…

The Donkey’s Ankles! Captain: Ben.

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