PubTriviaFree quiz questions and answers
Over 450 free pub quiz questions with answers across 14 sets, sorted by category and difficulty: general knowledge, music, sport, film, geography and more.
How to build a round from these
Ten questions is the standard round. Take two from a set's easy band, six from the medium band and two from the hard band, in roughly that order, the easy ones first, so a table is invested before it meets anything difficult.
Do not take a whole set and run it as one round. Every page here holds more than a round's worth on purpose, so that a venue running a quiz weekly gets several weeks out of each one rather than one.
And read the round through before the night. The point of reading it in advance is catching the question that does not suit your particular room, which is a judgement no question set can make for you.
Everything here is free to use
Take them, print them, read them out, put them in your own pack. There is no attribution requirement and no catch.
They are also deliberately not the questions in the built-in packs that come with PubTrivia. A host who uses a round from this page and then subscribes should not find the same questions waiting for them. The free sets are additional to the packs, not a preview of them.
By category
The nine standard pub quiz categories. Each set is split into easy, medium and hard, with a note on how to build a round from it.
- General knowledge34 free general knowledge questions with answers, split into easy, medium and hard. The round to open a quiz night with, pitched so every table scores.
- Music34 free music questions with answers across six decades, plus how to spread the years so a mixed room stays in it and no generation sits the round out.
- Film and TVFree film and television questions with answers, from classic cinema to long-running series, with the decade spread that keeps a mixed room in the round.
- Sport34 free sport questions with answers across football, rugby, cricket, tennis, athletics and the Olympics, and why an all-sport round rewards the same table.
- Food and drinkFree food and drink questions with answers: cooking, ingredients, beer, wine and spirits. The natural round for a taproom, a restaurant or a bar staff team.
- Geography34 free geography questions with answers: capitals, rivers, mountains, flags and borders. It works in any room because everybody has an opinion about a map.
- HistoryFree history questions with answers from the ancient world to the twentieth century, pitched so the round is not won by whoever did the A-level.
- Science and natureFree science and nature questions with answers on the body, the elements, space and animals, written to be answerable by a room that did not study any of it.
- Literature34 free literature questions with answers: authors, first lines, characters and prizes, kept to books a room has heard of, not the ones it should have read.
By difficulty and format
For when the problem is not the subject. An opening round that everybody scores on, a round three that actually bites, and the fastest round format there is.
- Easy questionsFree easy quiz questions across every topic, for opening rounds, charity nights and mixed-age rooms. The round whose job is that every single table scores.
- Hard questions30 free hard quiz questions and tie-breakers, for round three and the end of a night. Difficult without being unfair, a narrower target than it sounds.
- True or false24 free true or false questions with answers. Fast to run, nothing to read out twice, and far harder to sweep than it looks. The ideal palate cleanser.
Seasonal
For December and October, when a themed whole quiz works rather than a themed round.
- ChristmasFree Christmas quiz questions with answers on songs, films, traditions and food, for the works do, the December quiz night and the family on Boxing Day.
- HalloweenFree Halloween quiz questions with answers: horror films, folklore, monsters and the origins of the night itself, for an October quiz that is not just pumpkins.
Or skip the writing entirely
Five ready-made packs come with every plan, including the free session: General Knowledge, Pop Culture, Music, Sports and Food & Drink.
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- Round ideasThirty round formats beyond general knowledge, with how each is run, how long it takes and the room it suits. The ones worth stealing and the ones that die.
- Writing questionsDifficulty curves, unambiguous wording, plausible wrong answers, and fact-checking. How to write a round that is hard without being unfair or unanswerable.
- Question packsGeneral Knowledge, Pop Culture, Music & Audio, Sports and Food & Drink come with every plan. How to spread them across a season and build a mixed night.