Weekly Pub Quiz Questions and Answers

Every Sunday we write a ready-made current affairs round of ten questions from the past week's news, and we send it free to everyone on our Substack as a printable PDF with an answer sheet. While we're digging through the week's stories we always find more than ten good questions, so the spares go on this page. They're not in the emailed round, which means you can use both on the same night.

What happened this week: quiz questions and answers for 25 to 31 October 2026

The answers are hidden under each question, so you can test yourself first. If you're reading them out, the four options make it a multiple choice round, or leave them off if your teams like it harder.

  1. Which Batman villain's origin film topped the North American box office on the weekend of 23 to 25 October 2026?

    1. Mr. Freeze
    2. Clayface
    3. The Riddler
    4. Killer Croc
    Show the answer

    Clayface

  2. Jennifer Lawrence revealed in October 2026 that which actor returns as Haymitch Abernathy alongside her in "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping"?

    1. Stanley Tucci
    2. Liam Hemsworth
    3. Woody Harrelson
    4. Ralph Fiennes
    Show the answer

    Woody Harrelson

  3. Which observatory found its first possible dwarf planet, an object called 2026 ED138 beyond Pluto, as announced in October 2026?

    1. Hubble Space Telescope
    2. Jodrell Bank Observatory
    3. James Webb Space Telescope
    4. Vera C. Rubin Observatory
    Show the answer

    Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Recent weeks

News questions go stale quickly, but these are still fair game if your quiz night is only a week or two behind. We keep the last few weeks here.

18 to 24 October 2026

  1. Which Paralympic champion became the third celebrity to leave Strictly Come Dancing on 18 October 2026?

    1. Ellie Simmonds
    2. Sarah Storey
    3. Hannah Cockroft
    4. Kadeena Cox
    Show the answer

    Sarah Storey

  2. Tottenham won 2-0 at Stamford Bridge on 24 October 2026. Which Chelsea player was sent off in the match?

    1. Enzo Fernandez
    2. Moises Caicedo
    3. Cole Palmer
    4. Reece James
    Show the answer

    Cole Palmer

  3. Which rapper, whose company produces the Super Bowl halftime show, reportedly picked himself in October 2026 to headline the show in February 2027?

    1. Eminem
    2. Drake
    3. Kanye West
    4. Jay-Z
    Show the answer

    Jay-Z

11 to 17 October 2026

  1. Which children's character celebrated 100 years since his first book of stories was published on 14 October 1926?

    1. Paddington Bear
    2. Winnie-the-Pooh
    3. Peter Rabbit
    4. Rupert Bear
    Show the answer

    Winnie-the-Pooh

  2. A new species of carnivorous dinosaur, announced in October 2026, was identified from a skull fossil found about a century ago on which English island?

    1. Isle of Wight
    2. Lundy
    3. Holy Island
    4. Isle of Sheppey
    Show the answer

    Isle of Wight

  3. A study published in October 2026 found that dogs, like humans, tend to link the made-up word "kiki" with which kind of shape?

    1. Round
    2. Square
    3. Wavy
    4. Spiky
    Show the answer

    Spiky

4 to 10 October 2026

  1. Jonathan, the roughly 194-year-old tortoise studied for clues to long life in October 2026, lives on which British island?

    1. Ascension Island
    2. St Helena
    3. Tristan da Cunha
    4. The Falkland Islands
    Show the answer

    St Helena

  2. Roughly how many bottles were taken from the Antinori winery in Tuscany in Italy's biggest ever wine heist?

    1. 3,000
    2. 30,000
    3. 300,000
    4. 3 million
    Show the answer

    30,000

  3. "Patient Zero" went straight in at number one in the UK in October 2026. Whose single is it?

    1. Taylor Swift
    2. Sabrina Carpenter
    3. Olivia Rodrigo
    4. Dua Lipa
    Show the answer

    Taylor Swift

Get the full ten-question round every week

The full round is ten multiple choice questions on the week's UK and world news, with a question sheet to hand out and a separate answer sheet for whoever's in charge. It's a free PDF download that lands in your inbox on Sunday, so it's ready for a quiz night later in the week. When you sign up you'll also get a free pack of at least five of our other quizzes straight away. It costs nothing and we never spam anyone.

Missed a week?

The full rounds from the last few weeks are in our Etsy shop as printable PDFs with answer sheets:

Need the rest of the night? Ready-made rounds

Want the whole night done for you? Our ready-made pub quiz packs have six rounds and 68 questions: two general knowledge rounds plus picture rounds and dingbats, all with answer sheets. Add this week's news round from above and you've got seven rounds sorted.

A news round only fills ten questions. If you need the rest of the evening sorted, we make printable picture rounds, dingbats and themed quizzes, all with answer sheets. Our dingbats are good for keeping tables busy during the break, the TV quizzes and advert quizzes make easy picture rounds, and there's a Christmas page if you're planning that far ahead. Everything is an instant PDF download from our Etsy shop.

Running a pub quiz with these

Most pub quizzes run to six or eight rounds of ten questions, which takes about two hours once you've allowed for marking and a break in the middle. A news round sits well near the start, while everyone is still fresh and arguing about what they read on Tuesday. Then you can move on to a picture round, a music round and whatever else you've got. There's more on all this in our guide to how to host a pub quiz.

Read each question twice, slowly, and don't give out the options until you've read the question through. Get teams to swap answer sheets for marking, because it's quicker and it stops anyone being too generous with themselves. If a team comes up with a sensible answer you hadn't thought of, give them the point. Nobody has ever enjoyed a quiz more because the quizmaster won an argument.

Keep a tiebreaker in your back pocket. A question with a number for an answer works best ("how many bottles were stolen in Italy's biggest wine heist?"), and the closest team wins, whether they're over or under. We've got a list of tiebreaker questions and answers if you need some.