2.3.06

Quiztime Another Beer Quiz


Trivia - The greatest number of standard beermats ever stuffed in the mouth and held in the teeth is 77 by David Armitage at The Goat Inn, Steeton, Yorkshire on 1st April 1990

1. Which product did the two lizards, Frankie and Louis advertise on TV?
Budweiser beer
2. What do the initials ABV signify on a beer pump?
Alcohol by volume
3. In which town are Timothy Taylor’s beers produced?
Keighley - the brewer who produces the beer brand Landlord
4. Which beer was advertised with the slogan “The Cream Of Manchester”?
Boddingtons
5. Which English brewery produces a beer called “Old Peculiar”?
Theakston's
6. What S is a beer mug with a hinged lid called?
Stein
7. Which lager advertises itself as “Belgium’s Original Beer”?
Stella Artois - first brewed in Leuven in 1366
8. What was the name of the beer launched by Clint Eastwood a) Pale Rider Ale b) Beer With No Name c) A Few Swallows more?
Pale Rider Ale
9. How many pints of beer are there in a kilderkin?
144
10. Everards beers were originally based near which city?
Leicester
11. In Australia they wouldn’t give a 4X for whose beers?
Tooheys
12. Which of the following is the name of a strong beer in Sweden - Is it Orang-utan, Gorilla, Gibbon, Baboon or Chimp?
Gorilla
13. True or false, in 1911, famous escapologist Harry Houdini, had to be rescued from a large vat of Tetley's Beer?
True, apparently he was overcome by the alcohol!
14. Which stinging weed can be used to make a kind of beer?
Nettle
15. In a TV commercial, a man takes delivery of a robot to do the housework, only to return home from work find the robot in bed with a variety of household appliances - which particular product is being advertised?
Fosters Lager
16. What spirit is mixed with beer to make the drink a “Dog’s Nose”?
Gin
17. Which Stoke-on-Trent brewery produces “Lifeboat”, “White Star”, “Wreckage”, and “Captain Smith” beers? Titanic
18. What beer did Bob the cardboard cut out man advertise on TV?
John Smith's Bitter (also advertised with the slogan “Pure silk in a glass”)
19. What is the name of the item put into a can to give beer a head?
Widget
20. True or False - In 1648 Canada's first tavern opened in Quebec City, featuring a powerful brew called spruce beer, Customers who drank too much were said to be "all spruced up?
True

21. Which beer or lager was advertised with the slogan “Reassuringly Expensive”?
Stella Artois
22. At what hostelry does Homer Simpson usually hang out drinking Duff beer?
Moe’s Tavern
23. What beer was promoted on T.V. to the tune of `There’s a Hole in My Bucket?
Double Diamond
24. Which beer uses the strap line ‘We only let you drink it when its ready’
Grolsh
- What nationality is the lager giant Grolsch?
Dutch
25. What garden pest can you get rid of by letting it drown in a half buried jar with beer in it?
Slugs
26. Name the music single that launched Slim Dusty to national stardom in 1957?
A Pub With No Beer
27. What does CAMRA stand for?
Campaign for Real Ale
28. What is advertised as 'Probably the best lager in the world'?
Carlsberg
29. What do Thwaites, Wadworth and Young's have in common regarding deliveries?
Horse Drawn Drays
30. What is Germanys top export beer?
Becks
31. Which brewer operates from the oldest brewery in Yorkshire?
Samuel Smiths
32. The largest brewery in the world is in St Louis, Missouri, which American company owns it?
Annheuser Busch
33. Pigs are found in many pub beer cellars. What are they stuffed with?
Cork (they are the dropping bags used at the bottom of a cellar shoot to take the impact of barrels being delivered)
34. Which beer is advertised with the line "1664. A bad year for music. A good year for beer"?
Kronenberg
35. What country produces Wiibroe beer?
Denmark
36. Which cereal crop is used to make beer, with the flavouring supplied by hops?
Barley
37. In August 1960, what was the average price for a pub-served pint of beer?
1s 7d = 8p
38. In which country is the oldest functional brewery in the world, founded in 1040?
Germany - Munich
39. What is the world’s best selling brand of lager beer - Is it Fosters, Budweiser, Carlsberg, Carling Black Label or Stella?
Budweiser sells more than the other four put together
40. Brainteaser – Bill & Terry were having a pint in the pub beer garden. Bill was facing North and Terry was facing South. After a few minutes Terry offers to buy Bill a pint as he is aware that Bill has finished his drink. As they are facing in opposite directions, how could Terry know that Bill needed a drink?
They were facing one another!

Tiebreaker - How many pints of beer are brewed each day in the United Kingdom?
28 million
- According to Guinness Brewing Company, facial hair is responsible for an incredible amount of wasted beer. They estimate that as many as how many pints of their beer are trapped in moustaches and wiped away every year?
162,000 pints

Cryptic Clues to Bitter Beers
-Identify the Beers
1 A windy fish? Draught Bass
2 An ancient, strangely marked fowl? Old Speckled Hen
3 Members of the board? Courage Directors
4 A beer for a cricket team? Brew XI
5 A cuppa, perhaps? Tetleys
6 Capital's self-esteem? Fullers London Pride
7 Chum found at Crufts? Pedigree
8 Jamie's pint? Theakstons
9 He might sell you a suit? Timothy Taylor or Burton
10 Miss Diamond is a vendor? Ansells