Mixed Pub Quiz – 20 General Knowledge Questions

The Central Line is a London Underground service that crosses London from Ealing and Ruislip in the west to Stratford in East London before heading north-east to Epping in Essex. Two of the stops are St Paul's and Holland Park.

Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) was released on May 7, 2010, by Sony Music Entertainment and Epic Records as the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It is recorded by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira featuring the South African band Freshly Ground. It reached number one on the charts in more than 20 countries but stayed at number 21 in the U.K. and number 38 on Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., branded as Wal-Mart, is an American multinational retail corporation. The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962 and incorporated in 1969. It has over 11,000 stores in 27 countries.

In Greek mythology, Narcissus was known for his beauty. When he saw his reflection in a pool of water, he fell in love with it, not realizing it was just an image and drowned. Narcissus is the origin of narcissism, a fixation with the reflection or image they portray to others.

Mario is a fictional character in the video games created by Nintendo. Mario first appears as Jumpman in the arcade game Donkey Kong in 1981.

Carlsberg is the flagship beer brand in the Danish Carlsberg Group's portfolio of more than 500 brands. It was first brewed in 1904 and was created by Carl Jacobsen, son of Carlsberg's founder JC Jacobsen.

My Heart Will Go On is the main theme song to the 1997 film Titanic. It is Celine Dion's biggest hit and one of the best-selling singles in history. It topped the charts in both U.S. and overseas.

Bleak House is a fifteen-part BBC television drama serial adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House.

Flushing Meadows is a public park in New York City. It contains the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the current U.S. Open tennis tournament venue.

The Ural is a river flowing through Russia and Kazakhstan in Eurasia

Sound of Music was adapted as a 1965 film musical starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film won five Academy Awards.

Hell's Kitchen is an American reality television cooking competition (based on the British series of the same name) hosted by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.

The lyrics are from Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run, released in 1975.

Machu Picchu is in the Cusco region in Peru. Machu Picchu was built around 1450, at the height of the Inca Empire, and is perhaps the most familiar icon of Inca civilization.

Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist. He discovered the antibiotic penicillin from the mold Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

A quartet is a group of four singers or four instrumentalists.

The two-letter country-code top-level domain .es is Spain.

A general slowdown in economic activity is known as a recession. It is a business cycle contraction. When a recession becomes uncontrollable, it will lead to depression.

Summer of '69 is a song recorded by Canadian recording artist Bryan Adams from his fourth studio album, Reckless (1984). Opening lyrics are: I got my first real six-string, Bought it at the five-and-dime, Played it 'til my fingers bled. It was the summer of '69.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is a memoir by Barack Obama, published in July 1995.