Pubs are open but do you still cherish the company of your cosy home and personal music collection? Well, whether you prefer alcohol in your drink, or merely in your sanitiser, this cocktail-hour quiz is for you, all about drinks. Consume in the company of anything chilled!

1. What term connects a genre of crime drama films that emphasise cynical attitudes with a certain variety of red wine grapes?

2. Gerard Adriaan Heineken got his mom to finance his beer business as a way to get people off hard liquor. Where did he live?

3. Schlitz is the beer that made what city famous?

4. Which literary valet often prepares a hangover cure drink from a raw egg, Worcester sauce, hot sauce & seasoning?

5. What Bloody Mary ingredient do you replace with tequila to make a Bloody Maria?

6. As the story goes, what vodka-and-orange cocktail was named by oil workers for the tool they used as a swizzle stick?

7. Even though the whole thing remains just as wet, literally, what do you cut back on when you're mixing a "dry" martini?

8. Jamaican scientist Kenneth Evans used a 300-year-old recipe to create what coffee liqueur?

9. “Life is still beautiful” and “Jab bachche the” were the marketing campaigns of which Indian beverage brand?

10. Which popular cocktail literally means “strained pineapple” and is the 'official' drink of Puerto Rico?

Before we go on to the answers, here is one book we would recommend allied to this topic -

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Oh and a sparkly tale for the road - 

The first sparkling wine or champagne was created accidentally. Sometimes the pressure in the wine bottle led to bottles exploding or corks popping. Such wine back then would be called 'the devil's wine'.

The tendency of still wine from the Champagne region to lightly sparkle was noted in the Middle Ages. At the time, bubbles were considered a fault. So Benedictine monk Dom Pérignon was charged by his superiors at the Abbey of Hautvillers to get rid of the bubbles since the pressure in the bottles caused many of them to burst in the cellar! Instead, as the story goes, he became a champagne champion and legend. Today, the prestige cuvée of Moët & Chandon, is named after him.

Until we see you next, cheers!

P.S. If you are missing our pub quizzes, join us for Family Quiz Night alternate Saturdays at 7pm IST on Zoom instead, for a family-friendly sober quiz for you.

Answers: 1. Noir, 2. Netherlands, 3. Milwaukee, 4. Jeeves, 5. Vodka, 6. Screwdriver, 7. Vermouth, 8. Tia Maria, 9. Paper Boat, 10. Pina Colada