As Christmas looms a lot of us will be going to Christmas quizzes at pubs around the county.

We teamed up with our sister site Cambridge Live to come up with one of the hardest quizzes to grind your axe against before you head to your local to answer even tougher questions.

Use this as a bit of practise or just have some fun with your family and friends.

Do you know what artists painted which masterpieces? The capital of Antigua and Barbuda? How are you on your dog breeds and general history? Let's find out.

Questions

Round One - Connection Round

1 . What is the name of the children's book by E Nesbit which features the legendary Psammead?

2 . What is the name of the wafer thin confectionery made from chocolate and a stiff paste of saccharose, water, and a small amount of the enzyme invertase?

3 . What is the name of the musical comedy starring Tommy Steele that was based on HG Wells' novel Kipps?

4 . How are Conquest, War, Famine and Death collectively known?

5 . Which Jack Nicholson film was based in a mental hospital?

6 . Which musical play by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill features the song Mack the Knife?

7 . What is the name of the musical film starring Howard Keel, which is based on the Rape of the Sabine Women?

8 . Which Irish indie band consists of Alex Trimble, Sam Halliday, and Kevin Baird?

9 . What name refers to the number of chalk springs that act as the source for the waterway Hobson's Conduit?

10 . Which famous band formed at Charterhouse School in Godalming?

Alex Trimble at Reading Festival in 2016

Round Two – Art

11 . How is painter Doménikos Theotokópoulos commonly known?

12 . Which picture by Edvard Munch has been the target of several high profile art thefts?

13 . Which Young British Artist caused controversy by incorporating elephant dung in his works?

14 . How is La Gioconda better known?

15 . Which artist’s grandfather was the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry?

16 . Who painted the work Guernica?

17 . What was the name of the film starring Charlton Heston which depicts Michelangelo’s life?

18 . Who painted The Singing Butler?

19 . What is the name of the painting that gave its name to Donna Tartt's 2013 novel?

20 . Where in Cambridge will you find a Time Eater?

A woman looks at the "Guernica" painting at the Reina Sofia museum

Round Three - Another Connection Round

21 . In which New York borough is JFK Airport?

22 . What is the name of the 1941 novel by AJ Cronin which tells the story of a Scottish Catholic priest, Father Chisholm, who struggles to establish a mission in China?

23 . What is the capital city of Antigua and Barbuda?

24 . What is the name of the character played by Carrie Anne Moss in the Matrix Films?

25 . What is the first name of Mr Darcy, hero of Pride and Prejudice?

26 . Which British Prime minister was born at Blenheim Palace?

27 . What was the name of the Conservative politician who served as Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and then Speaker of House of Commons until his retirement in 1976?

28 . Which Awards salute the improvement of the human gene pool by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it?

29 . Whose first novel is entitled The Racehorse Who Wouldn't Gallop?

30 . Brothers Jim and William Reid are members of which alternative rock band?

Colin Firth as Mr Darcy

Round Four - Science and Nature

31 . In which human organ would you find the hypothalamus?

32 . Kepler’s laws are three rules which can be used to describe what?

33 . In terms of height, what is the world’s largest dog breed?

34 . Which gland of the human body is affected by Hashimoto’s disease?

35 . Which gardener’s item was invented by Edwin Beard Budding in 1830?

36 . ‘Ariane’, ‘Parkland’, ‘Sandow’ and ‘Elton Beauty’ are types of which fruit?

37 . What is the term used for a baby ferret?

38 . Which size of paper measures 148mm by 210mm?

39 . Of what is ‘oenology’ the study?

40 . What type of creature is a kob?

This, but smaller and younger (Q37)

Round Five - Guess who

41 . He believed in Father Christmas.

42 . Born in Berlin he was best known for playing a Spaniard.

43 . Had a Napoleon complex in the 1960s.

44 . Founder of Dead or Alive

45 . Who said "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in"?

46 . Famed for her headscarf and curlers in her most famous role.

47 . The original Willy Wonka

48 . Who could "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"?

49 . Changed his stage name to an unpronounceable symbol also known as the Love Symbol

50 . Who was sitting in a tin can far above the world in 1962?

A visual clue for question 42

Answers

1 Five Children and It; 2 After Eight; 3 Half a Sixpence; 4 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; 5 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; 6 Threepenny Opera; 7 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; 8 Two Door Cinema Club; 9 Nine Wells; 10 Genesis; 11 El Greco; 12 The Scream; 13 Chris Ofili; 14 Mona Lisa; 15 Lucian Freud; 16 Pablo Picasso; 17 The Agony & The Ecstasy; 18 Jack Vettriano; 19 The Goldfinch; 20 On the corner of Benet Street outside the Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College; 21 Queens; 22 The Keys of the Kingdom; 23 St John’s; 24 Trinity; 25 Fitzwilliam; 26 Churchill; 27 John Selwyn Lloyd; 28 The Darwin Awards; 29 Clare Balding; 30 Jesus and Mary Chain (Connection is they are all Cambridge Colleges); 31 In the brain; 32 The motion of planets around the sun; 33 Great Dane; 34 Thyroid; 35 Lawnmower; 36 Apple; 37 Kit; 38 A5; 39 Wine; 40 Antelope; 41 Greg Lake; 42 Andrew Sachs; 43 Robert Vaughn; 44 Pete Burns; 45 Leonard Cohen; 46 Jean Alexander; 47 Gene Wilder; 48 Muhammed Ali; 49 Prince; 50 John Glenn