More Educational Pub Signs Trivia Quiz

Answer: Tottenham Hotspur

The stadium doesn't actually stand on a street called "White Hart Lane" in Tottenham, but was built on ground obtained from the landlord of a local pub named "The White Hart" on the High Road. The land, owned by the Charrington brewery, had previously been used as a nursery (of the vegetable, not childcare, variety). Arsenal play at the Emirates Stadium, Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, and Charlton at The Valley.

The pub with this sign outside is in Pirbright, Surrey.

Answer: Muslims

The term "Saracen" originated as a Roman term specifically for the natives of Arabia. The term acquired its wider application to Muslims generally during the Crusades fought during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, in which Roman Catholic Europe attempted to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim (or "Saracen") occupation. Nowadays, the word really only remains in current use in the context of pub names, and the Saracens Rugby Union Club based in St Albans.

The pub with this sign outside is in Diss, Norfolk.

Answer: Warwick the Kingmaker

During the fifteenth-century dynastic wrangling known as the "Wars of the Roses", Richard Neville became extremely powerful, with both the Lancastrian and Yorkist sides vying for his support. His shifting allegiance was instrumental in bringing both Henry VI and Edward IV to the throne, which earned him the sobriquet of "Warwick the Kingmaker".

In the present day, a number of organisations associated with the English county of Warwickshire have adopted the "Bear and Staff" motif, including Warwickshire County Council and the Warwickshire Constabulary. This particular sign, however, is outside a pub on Bear Street in London, on the corner of Charing Cross Road.

Answer: The Pennine Way

The Pennine Way is a 267-mile long path between Edale in Derbyshire and Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders. Most Pennine Way walkers stop for a drink at the Tan Hill Inn as they tramp past, although over-indulgence at lunchtime is not recommended if you need to navigate across the open moors in the afternoon.

It also does bed-and-breakfast and has space for camping, so is an ideal overnight stop in an otherwise bleak landscape.

Answer: Figure skating

The "spread eagle" is an officially-designated figure-skating move. As the name suggests, it requires the skater to spread their arms and legs in the form of a diagonal cross. An exhausted marathon runner may finish his or her run spread-eagled flat on the ground, but not as an integral part of the activity!

The pub outside which this sign hangs is in Stokesley, Yorkshire.

Answer: Knut

Knut was born in Berlin Zoo in 2006. When his mother rejected him at birth, the zoo made a decision that he should be hand-raised. Arguments between supporters of the zoo's decision and animal rights fanatics claiming that he should have been allowed to die ensured that Knut was famous even before he made his "public debut". He continued to be a popular attraction at the zoo until his premature death from drowning following a brain seizure.

For those old enough to remember, Pipaluk was a polar bear cub born at London Zoo in 1967. In his day, he was just as famous as Knut, and was a much-loved attraction until 1985, when he moved to a zoo in Poland following the closure of London Zoo's bear enclosure.

Answer: Galero

The galero was once a common form of headgear in the Roman Catholic Church, but is now more commonly seen as a heraldic emblem for members of the clergy. The coat of arms of a bishop will normally show a green galero with 12 tassels, while an archbishop will have 20. A cardinal will - as this picture shows - have a red hat with 30 red tassels, 15 on either side.

Answer: A type of money-making scheme

A tontine is a scheme in which a group of people each contributes a sum of money to a central fund, which is usually then placed in some form of high-interest savings account. All of the money then goes to whichever of them is the last to die. The temptation for foul play offered by such schemes has inspired numerous fictional accounts of murder and skulduggery by members of tontines, all eager to be the last to survive and get the money. It is likely that a pub named the "Tontine Inn" would have been built with the profits from such a scheme.

The pub in this picture stands opposite the famous Iron Bridge in Shropshire, and has chosen to show this on the sign, perhaps because a tontine is a hard thing to illustrate!

Answer: Wales and the Isle of Anglesey

The Britannia Bridge is one of two bridges linking Wales and Anglesey across the Menai Strait, the other being the Menai Bridge itself. The bridge linking Carrick Island with the Northern Irish mainland is a rope bridge for pedestrian use only. The bridge between Scotland and the Isle of Skye opened in 1995, replacing a ferry service.

There is no bridge between England and the Isle of Wight.

Answer: Holder of the official world speed record for steam locomotives

In July 1938, Mallard was officially recognised as reaching a speed of 125.88 miles per hour, on what was then the London and North Eastern Railway's (LNER) East Coast Main Line near Grantham in Lincolnshire. Mallard retired from service in 1963, and is now part of the collection at the UK's National Railway Museum in York.

This sign hangs outside the "Mallard Inn" in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.