Pubs of "The World's End" Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Old Familiar

"The World's End" (2013) stars Simon Pegg and was written by Pegg and director Edgar Wright. While it does feature a pub crawl, it also features an alien invasion and most of the townspeople have been replaced by androids.

The film is filled with symbolism and foreshadowing. Not only do the twelve pub names reflect the plot, but just about everything else is significant as well. For example, except for side streets (which the filmmakers could not control), all of the cars in the town parking lots are Vauxhall Amperas, which are electric cars. This suggests both the uniformity of the town and that everyone is an android.

Answer: Gary was banned for life as a teenager.

Initially upset because being ejected from the pub means he can't have a pint at all twelve pubs, Gary salvages the night by stealing a drink off of one of the tables outside the pub.

Answer: Blue

This film is the third in the "Three Flavours Cornetto" trilogy of films by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, in each of which a character eats a Cornetto ice cream cone with a color that reflects the plot. The others are "Shaun of the Dead" (2004, a red strawberry cone for the zombies/blood), and "Hot Fuzz" (2007, a blue vanilla cone for the police). "The World's End" has a green mint chocolate chip cone for the aliens.

While many of the same actors and crew are in each movie and there are some shared gags, the films are not connected.

Answer: Oliver

At "The Old Familiar", Oliver gets a call from Sam and asks if she got lost on the ring-road again.

Near the end of the film, after Gary sends Sam away for her own safety, she returns to rescue the guys, but explains she got lost on the ring-road.

Answer: Drug dealer

Trevor "The Reverend" Green doesn't sell drugs anymore; he has "a proper job in a proper office." He tries to explain to Gary that the townspeople aren't robots, but he says too much and gets a phone call from his "supervisor".

Answer: Blanks

Sam later comes in with her friends, the twins. The twins are Blanks and fight Sam and Gary.

The costumes of the characters are important. Oliver and Peter are wearing blue, and both end up as Blanks. Steven and Sam both wear red and eventually become a couple. Gary is so intent on recapturing his youth that he is wearing the same outfit he wore as a teenager.

Answer: School uniforms

The gang refers to Erika Leekes, Tracy Benson and Becky Salt as the "Marmalade Sandwich", since they are two blondes and a redhead in the middle. When they are in "The Cross Hands", Andy remarked that he fantasizes about them as they were as teenagers, dressed in school uniforms.

Answer: His birthmark

At "The Cross Hands", Oliver told them that he had his birthmark removed by laser surgery. The birthmark was shaped like the number "6" and was the reason his friends nicknamed him "O-Man".

Unfortunately, the film makes an error when it claims that birthmarks are coded in DNA. That's not true.

Answer: Gary

Gary had just banged his head against a beam multiple times to prove he was human, but Andy knocked him unconscious in an attempt to end the pub crawl.

It's a little more obvious once you realize that all of the main characters have royal surnames: Gary King, Andy Knightley, Steven Prince, Peter Page, and Oliver and Sam Chamberlain.

The sign for the pub in the movie is a portrait of Simon Pegg (who plays Gary King) dressed as a king.

Answer: The Beast

Peter sold Gary the Beast in 1989 for 300 quid. It's had a lot of work done, but it's still the same car, according to Gary.

At the end of the film, Gary enters a post-apocalyptic pub with android versions of his friends and orders water, just like Andy says in an earlier conversation at "The First Post".