41 Funny Pub Quiz Questions and Answers
Looking for funny pub quiz questions that go beyond the usual general knowledge? This collection mixes strange facts, surprising records and wonderfully silly trivia. Use the questions as a complete round or pick your favourites to liven up your next quiz night.
Funny pub quiz questions 1 to 20
1. What phrase is inscribed on the tombstone of Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny?
Answer: That’s all, folks!
2. In which country can you use a cashpoint with instructions in Latin?
Answer: Vatican City.
3. What is the longest recorded gap between the birth of twins: 87 minutes, 87 hours or 87 days?
Answer: 87 days.
4. What wonderfully flamboyant name is given to a group of flamingos?
Answer: A flamboyance.
5. Which large land mammal cannot jump?
Answer: The elephant.
6. Which North Korean leader was claimed by state media to have bowled a perfect 300 game and scored several holes-in-one?
Answer: Kim Jong-il.
7. How many times does Sherlock Holmes say ‘Elementary, my dear Watson’ in Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories?
Answer: None. The exact phrase never appears in the original stories.
8. Which famous cartoon character’s full first name is Minerva?
Answer: Minnie Mouse.
9. Who became the first convicted criminal to be elected president of the United States?
Answer: Donald Trump, in 2024.
10. Which Dr Seuss book resulted from a bet that he could not write a book using 50 or fewer different words?
Answer: Green Eggs and Ham.
11. What acronym did Boeing use for its project involving sacks of potatoes as stand-ins for passengers during Wi-Fi tests?
Answer: SPUDS, short for Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution.
12. In which appropriately named English town is the Dyslexia Research Trust based?
Answer: Reading.
13. Which vegetable is actually an unopened flower?
Answer: Broccoli.
14. Which future US president reportedly punched his music teacher when he was in primary school?
Answer: Donald Trump.
15. The nickname FIGJAM has been associated with golfer Phil Mickelson. What does it stand for?
Answer: ‘F***, I’m good. Just ask me.’
16. What is Scotland’s national animal?
Answer: The unicorn.
17. What is the largest organ in the human body?
Answer: The skin.
18. What is the tongue-twisting name often given to the fear of long words?
Answer: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
19. The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 is often called the shortest war in history. Roughly how long did it last?
Answer: About 38 minutes.
20. Inventor Fredric Baur asked for some of his ashes to be buried in what kind of container?
Answer: A Pringles can. He helped to develop its distinctive packaging.
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Funny pub quiz questions 21 to 41
21. What colour is the oily substance sometimes described as a hippo’s ‘sweat’?
Answer: Red-orange.
22. The largest snowflake ever reported was said to be 15 inches wide. In which US state did it fall?
Answer: Montana, in 1887.
23. What type of tree includes some of the oldest known non-clonal living organisms on Earth?
Answer: The Great Basin bristlecone pine.
24. How can elephants communicate over several miles without making an audible sound?
Answer: By producing low-frequency rumbles and vibrations that travel through the ground.
25. The full chemical name for the protein titin is often cited as having how many letters?
Answer: 189,819 letters, although dictionaries do not generally treat it as an ordinary word.
26. Why can sloths lose up to a third of their body weight in one weekly trip to the ground?
Answer: They are going to the toilet.
27. What was the name of the experimental self-replicating computer program first seen on ARPANET in 1971?
Answer: Creeper.
28. What type of organism is the enormous specimen in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest?
Answer: A fungus, specifically a honey fungus.
29. Botanically speaking, what type of fruit is a banana?
Answer: A berry.
30. The world’s shortest scheduled commercial flight links which two Scottish islands?
Answer: Westray and Papa Westray in Orkney.
31. Humans share roughly what percentage of their genes with bananas?
Answer: About 50 to 60%, depending on how the comparison is made.
32. Which tiny sea creature is sometimes nicknamed the ‘immortal jellyfish’ because it can revert to an earlier life stage?
Answer: Turritopsis dohrnii.
33. What species is Hyperion, the world’s tallest known living tree?
Answer: A coast redwood.
34. Which South American country produced a record-breaking 203-metre hot dog in 2011?
Answer: Paraguay.
35. What kind of animal is a slippery dick?
Answer: A fish, specifically a species of wrasse.
36. Which insect can survive for weeks after losing its head?
Answer: A cockroach.
37. A giant coffee cup built in Colombia in 2019 held more than 22,000 litres. Roughly how many standard cups is that?
Answer: More than 100,000 cups.
38. According to one popular theory, which English king inspired the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty?
Answer: Richard III, although the rhyme’s true origin is uncertain.
39. What symbol is also called an octothorpe?
Answer: The hash symbol (#).
40. Which circus toy was once banned in Indonesia for supposedly ‘stimulating passion’?
Answer: The hula hoop.
41. Which animal is generally illegal to keep as a pet in Queensland, Australia, unless you are a licensed magician?
Answer: A rabbit.
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