Tie Breaker Pub Quiz Questions and Answers

You have more than one potential winner and you need to determine who takes home the prize, what do you need?
- A tie-breaker question.

Writing a tie-breaker question is actually harder than you think! A good tie-breaker shouldn't be something that is just general knowledge, and ideally not an obvious number. How high something is, when did something open, or how many episodes of a TV show are all good examples of a tie-breaker.

Each week, as part of our 50 question pub quiz, we write two new tie-breakers just incase you need to bring peace back to your quiz. Below is a selection of some of them from previous quizzes which you are free to use in your pub quiz.

Page last updated: 6th January 2025.
We'll try to keep this page updated regularly but if you run out of tie-breakers and need us to update the page please let us know.

Free tie-breaker questions for your next pub quiz:

1. How many people submitted their tax return on Christmas Day 2024?
   - 4,409
2. How many people were on the New Years Honours list for 2025?
   - 1203
3. How many miles per hour does the International Space Station travel at?
   - 17,500 mph
4. How many miles as the crow flies, are there between the two extremities of the island of Great Britain, John O'Groats and Lands End?
   - 603 miles
5. In what year did Lidl open their first UK store?
   - 1994
6. How many books were released in 'The Famous Five' series?
   - 21
7. How many cities are there in the UK?
   - 76
8. No calculators allowed. How many minutes are there in a year?
   - 525,600
9. How many members of Parliament are there?
   - 650
10. In what year was the UK's first motorway opened in Preston, Lancashire?
    - 1958
11. How long is Hadrian's Wall Path in miles?
    - 84
12. How much in dollars did Banksy's shredded 'Girl With Balloon' artwork sell for at auction?
    - 25.4 million
13. How many episodes of US sitcom Friends were there?
    - 236
14. According to the NOAA, what is the Earth's circumference in miles?
    - 24,855
15. How many operas did Mozart compose?
    - 22
16. What are the odds of winning the Lotto National Lottery? 1 in how many?
    - 45,057,474
17. In what year were Monster Munch crisps first introduced?
    - 1977
18. In a freedom of information request, it was revealed that there were how many calls made to the speaking clock from the Houses of Parliament over the three year period between 2018 and 2021?
    - 517
19. How high is Mount Everest in metres?
    - 8,849m
20. In what year was the first Glastonbury festival?
    - 1970