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The HK Magazine All-Hong Kong Pub Quiz

Reckon you’re a fount of Hong Kong knowledge? See how well you fare with the city’s very first All-Hong Kong Pub Quiz. Quizmasters: Penny Zhou and Sarah Fung

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The HK Magazine All-Hong Kong Pub Quiz

The pub quiz is one of those peculiarly British pastimes that have stayed on and thrived in Hong Kong’s post-1997 drinking scene. No British pub worth its fish n’ chips would dare go without a midweek quiz night, where teams of regulars flock to scratch their heads over carefully crafted trivia questions in the hopes of winning a round of drinks, a dining voucher, a pub shirt, or—most importantly—the much-coveted titled of pub quiz champions. If you fancy yourself an enthusiastic collector of miscellanea then take HK Magazine’s very own pub quiz, below (answers here). If you enjoyed flexing your frontal lobes, then find our listings of Hong Kong’s best pub quizzes here.

Round 1: True or False

Reckon you can separate fact from fiction? See if you can spot the true Hong Kong facts hidden among our sneaky fibs.

  1. According to the Gini coefficient, the wealth gap in Hong Kong is greater than the wealth gap in the Côte d'Ivoire
  2. Tsui Wah restaurant’s “champagne milk tea” contains a small amount of alcohol.
  3. Hollywood Road was named when film star Clark Gable paid a visit to the area in 1940.
  4. 80 percent of Housing Authority units (which are lived in by almost half of Hong Kong’s population) are less than 430 square feet in size.
  5. A box of original Vitasoy contains more sugar than a box of Vita Lemon Tea.
  6. There are more than 20 million octopus cards currently in circulation in Hong Kong.
  7. Dumpling chefs fill xiaolongbaos with soup by using a syringe-like instrument known as a “bao-jum”
  8. The popular convenience store Circle K originated in Texas.
  9. According to traffic ranking website alexa.com, Yahoo! is bigger than Google in Hong Kong.
  10. You can fit a maximum of 570 Hong Kong Islands into an area the size of New Zealand.

Round 2: Hong Kong Cinema

See if the self-claimed film buffs in your team know their stuff well.

  1. Which city was Bruce Lee born in?
  2. Last year, an actress became the first Hong Kong woman to win the Volpi Cup at Venice Film Festival. What's her name?
  3. How long was Hong Kong movie star Maggie Cheung married to French director Olivier Assayas?
  4. What was the highest grossing Hong Kong film of 2011?
  5. Which one of the following action stars was trained in Peking Opera as a child—Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen or Jet Li?
  6. Who headlined John Woo’s Hollywood debut, “Hard Target?”
  7. Beloved Hong Kong actor Leslie Cheung committed suicide in 2003. What was the date?
  8. In 1958, the Shaw Brothers started the construction of the largest privately-owned film studio in the world at the time. It is still being used for Hong Kong film productions. Where is it?
  9. Actors Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung are known for being regulars in Wong Kar-wai movies. But between them, who has been in more of Wong’s films?
  10. In which year did the first edition of Hong Kong International Film Festival take place—1977, 1979 or 1981?

Round 3: Hong Kong Geography

Hong Kong has more than 200 islands and here are some of them. Can you figure out which islands they are from their shapes?

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