Try out this general knowledge quiz to become the pub quiz champion

The pub quiz tradition in the UK gained popularity in the 1970s when the Burns and Porter company started making quizzes as a way to encourage people to visit pubs on quieter nights. The pair started with about 30 teams, which jumped to 10,000 after a few years.

They started touring pubs and breweries and came out with their own pub quiz book. Decades later and Brits are still heading down to their local boozers with the aim of being the smartest person in the room and winning the prize at the end to prove it.

You can learn more about local Cambridgeshire pub quizzes here, including a popular one at Wylde Sky Brewing in Linton.

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In honour of this popular British tradition, we've put together a general knowledge quiz of 20 questions. Themes include history, film, geography, science and literature.

If general knowledge isn't your thing and you are more interested in art, Disney, animals or another subject, then you can explore the quiz section here. There are also longer quizzes and tests for kids to try as well.

Scroll down to take our 20-question weekend pub quiz below. If you can't see it, you can link through to it here.