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The name of the pub that the Trotters frequent in Only Fools and Horses.
What is The Nag’s Head?
The year England won the FIFA World Cup for the first and only time.
What is 1066?
The battle that took place in 1066 between the Normans and the Anglo-Saxons.
What is The Battle of Hastings?
A group of stars that form a recognisable pattern in the sky.
What is A constellation?
The British rock festival, held annually since 1970, known for its pyramid stage and its diverse musical acts.
What is Glastonbury Festival?
The name of the fictional radio station where Alan Partridge works in I’m Alan Partridge.
What is Radio Norwich?
The year that Steve Redgrave won his fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal in rowing.
What is the year 2000?
The year the Magna Carta was signed by King John.
What is 1215?
The process by which plants convert light energy into chemical energy.
What is Photosynthesis?
The synth pop duo who had their biggest hit in 1981 with ‘Don’t You Want Me?’
What is The Human League?
The comedian that hosted the satirical news quiz Have I Got News for You from 1990 to 2002.
Who is Angus Deayton?
The British athlete who won the gold medal in the men’s 400 metres hurdles at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, setting a new world record.
Who is David Hemery?
The Prime Minister of Britain when World War II started in 1939.
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
The unit of force in the International System of Units (SI)
What is the newton?
The post-punk band, formed in Manchester in 1976, who changed their name to New Order after the suicide of their singer, Ian Curtis.
What is Joy Division?
The actor who played the role of Mark Corrigan, a socially awkward loan manager, in Peep Show.
Who is David Mitchell?
The Australian batsman who scored a record-breaking 334 runs against England in the fifth Test of the 1989 Ashes series at Headingley.
Who is Mark Taylor?
The secret code-breaking facility where Alan Turing and others worked during World War II.
What is Bletchley Park?
The phenomenon in which a liquid turns into a gas without reaching its boiling point.
What is Evaporation?
The stage name by which Paul David Hewson is better known
What is Bono?
The pub that Shaun and his friends try to reach during a zombie apocalypse in the film Shaun of the Dead.
What is The Winchester?
The English football team that won the European Cup in 1982, becoming the first English club to do so since Liverpool in 1978.
What is Aston Villa?
The scandal that involved a Soviet spy and a British Secretary of State for War in 1963.
What is The Profumo Affair?
The hypothetical particle that mediates the force of gravity according to quantum theory.
What is the graviton?
The British pop group, formed in Liverpool in 1978, who had a hit with ‘Enola Gay’, a reference to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
What is Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark/OMD?