[mattsouth]

The King William's College quiz is set by a particular fee paying English school for its pupils every Christmas and published by the Guardian. Its full of English cultural references and designed to be hard. I assume the idea is that the pupils take it home for the holidays and work on it with their families. Each section has a theme that connects the answers in that section. My partner's family love wrangling out the odd answer or three between christmas and new year.

[blacksmith_tb]

The background of the test is interesting[1], I feel a little better that I only spotted a handful I knew off the bat if 2 correct is considered 'a common score'.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_William%27s_College#Gener...

[GFlaneur]

King William's College is located in the Isle of Man, not in England.

[mattsouth]

Thanks for the correction.

[quartesixte]

I like the concept. If anything, it gives a conversation filler/starter for any awkward family dinners otherwise during the Holidays.

That being said, the internet has probably made a test like this easier than it has been in the past. Although I dare say many of the answers will require Google-fu/Wikipedia wizardry of a quite high level.