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Pub quizzes

Pub Quiz questions and answers on the topic of Buildings

Pub Quizzes are popular with pub landlords across the UK and here on our website we include some questions and answers for pub quiz questions regarding buildings that you may like to read or suggest your local landlord might like to include in a forthcoming pub quiz night!

Pub Quiz Questions and Answers on Buildings

 

1.

 In which English county are the castles of Alnwick, Norham and Warkworth located?

2.          

Of what is the Taj Mahal mainly made?

3.

What is the name of the famous opera house located in Via Filodrammatici, Milan? 

4.

In which French city is the Louise Weiss Building, seat of the European Parliament?

5.

In which American State is the building housing the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox located?

6.

What was designed by Joseph Paxton and erected in 1851?

7.

Off which structure were most of the Elgin Marbles taken?

8.

In which European city are the Royal Palace of the Amalienborg and the Parliament building of Christiansborg Palace to be found?

9.

Which newspaper magnate built a residential complex overlooking St Simeon in California?

10.   

Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was at Alexandria?

 

 

Answers

 

   1.

Northumberland

   2.

Marble

   3.

La Scala

   4.

Strasbourg

   5.

Kentucky

   6.

The Crystal Palace

   7.

The Parthenon (in Athens)

   8.

Copenhagen

   9.

(William) Randolph Hearst

   10.

The Pharos (Lighthouse)

 

 

More Pub Quizzes on Buildings

 

1. 

In which city is Richard Rogers’ and Renzo Piano’s celebrated building the Pompidou Centre located?

2.

In which building in Washington DC is the United States Congress based?

3. 

Blenheim Palace is the seat of which Duke? 

4.

In which city are the Petronas Towers, former holders of the record as the world’s highest building?

5.

In which Italian city would you go to watch football at the Stadio Delle Alpi?

6.

In which British city would you find the Senedd Building?

7.

The Bilbao and Abu Dhabi branches of which museum were designed by Frank Gehry?

8.

Which historic royal palace has the postcode KT8 9AU?

9.

Which Scottish tower is the tallest in that country, and also holds the record of being the tallest building in the world that can rotate 360 degrees?

10.

Which architect designed 30 St Mary Axe in London, popularly known as the Gherkin?

 

Answers

 

   1.

Paris

   2.

The Capitol Building

   3.

Duke of Marlborough

   4.

Kuala Lumpur

   5.

Turin

   6.

Cardiff

   7.

Guggenheim Museum

   8.

Hampton Court Palace

   9.

Glasgow Tower

   10.

Sir Norman Foster

 

Even more Pub Quiz questions and answers on the topic of buildings

 

1.  

The Elgin Marbles originally adorned which building?

2.

What is the name of the Prince of Wales’ Gloucestershire residence?

3.

The Bell Harry Tower can be found at which cathedral?

4.

What was the tallest building in the world when it opened in 1931?

5.

In which country is the World Heritage site of Angkor Wat?

6.

In a famous novel, who owned Pemberley?

7.

In which city is the Topkapi Palace to be found?

8.

Completed in Australia in 1973, what is Jorn Utzon’s most celebrated building?

9.

In which book of the Bible does the Tower of Babel appear?

10.

What is the name of the country seat of the Marquess of Bath?

 

Answers

1.

The Parthenon (in Athens)

2.

Highgrove House

3.

Canterbury Cathedral

4.

Empire State Building

5.

Cambodia

6.

Mr (Fitzwilliam) Darcy (in Pride and Prejudice)

7.

Istanbul

8.

Sydney Opera House

9.

Genesis

10.

Longleat

 

British Buildings - can you answer these Pub Quiz questions on British Buildings?

 

1.

At which location can you visit the house whose sign proclaims it to be the First and Last House in England?

2.

What is the name of the Queen’s residence in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire?

3.

The trio of buildings on Liverpool’s waterfront nicknamed “The Three Graces” comprise the Cunard Building, Port of Liverpool building and which other? 

4.

Located near Gateshead, what is Europe’s largest shopping and leisure centre?

5.

On which Scottish island is Dunvegan Castle, seat of the Clan McLeod, to be found?

6.

In which county were the nuclear power stations of Sizewell A and Sizewell B situated?

7.

Which Italian architect designed The Shard, Britain’s tallest building?

8.

The Bell Harry Tower is a tower of which English cathedral?

9.

Badminton House is the seat of which Duke?

10. 

Britain’s highest café is situated about 3,500 feet up just below the summit of which mountain?

 

and the Answers are:-

 

1.

Land’s End

2.

Balmoral Castle

3.

(Royal) Liver Building

4.

(Intu) Metrocentre

5.

Skye

6.

Suffolk

7.

Renzo Piano

8.

Canterbury

9.

Duke of Beaufort

10.

Snowdon

 

More Pub Quiz questions relating to buildings

 

1.

Which royal residence is in the county of Norfolk? 

2.

In which city is the Taj Mahal to be found?

3.

In which city are the Petronas Towers, formerly the tallest building in the world? 

4.

Which castle in North Wales was designed to mimic the walls of Constantinople?

5.

Which Derbyshire mansion is the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire?

6.

What was designed by Joseph Paxton and erected in 1851?

7.

Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was at Alexandria?

8.

What is the address of the White House in Washington, DC?

9.

Who designed the unfinished Sagrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona?

10.

 How is the Flavian Amphitheatre better known?

 

Answers

 

1.

Sandringham

2.

Agra

3.

Kuala Lumpur

4.

Caernarfon

5.

Chatsworth

6.

The Crystal Palace

7.

The Pharos (Lighthouse)

8.

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

9.

(Antoni) Gaudí

10.

The Colosseum (in Rome)