FREE COMPETITIONS, FREE PUB QUIZ QUESTIONS

1. The most common British pub name?
   Red Lion
   
   
2. George and Joy Adamson brought up a lioness cub in Kenya, the animal later being returned to the wild from where she periodically returned to visit the Adamsons. The name of the cub?
   Elsa
   
   
3. Many leaders and heroes have been named the Lion or after one of the creature's attributes, among them Mohammed (the Lion of God) and William, king of Scotland (1143-1214). Which king of England was so named?
   Richard I (Coeur de Lion)
   
   
4. Which month is said to come in like a lion?
   March
   
   
5. A skulk of foxes, an exaltation of larks, a murder of crows - but what of lions?
   A pride
   
   
6. What is the name of the Lion that matches up with the Witch and the Wardrobe?
   Aslan
   
   
7. According to many, including Alan Clark as a historian, British soldiers in World War 1 were like lions under the leadership of what?
   Donkeys
   
   
8. In Aesop's Fables what exactly is the lion's share?
   The whole lot - not just most of it. The lion takes ¼ by right, ¼ for courage, ¼ for his mate and cubs, leaving ¼ for any of the other animals that might successfully dispute it: none do)
   
   
9. Which of the four gospel writers is symbolised by a winged lion, the same lion that later became the emblem of the Venetian republic?
   Mark
   
   
10. Lyonesse is a fabled tract of land between Land's End and the Scillies on which stood the city of Lions and ca 140 churches. Who according to romance and legend came from there and finally was slain there with all his companions save one, in a final great battle against heathen invaders?
    Arthur
    
    
11. Androcles, like St Jerome, earned the friendship of a lion by taking a thorn from its paw. Who wrote the 1912 play Androcles and the Lion?
    George Bernard Shaw