HAVE you ever played trivial pursuits or tried your hand at a pub quiz?

Lancaster's pub quiz league had its first season way back in 1970 - with 24 teams competing. Today there are 80 teams from across the district with around 800 players.

Now there's a pub quiz with a difference - you don't have to go to a pub to pit your skills against the quiz master.

The City Museum's current exhibition CHEERS! - all about the district's pubs - has its own special pub quiz. Just like its pub-based equivalents this quiz has eight rounds to tax those grey cells.

All but the last round has eight questions. This last one is open-ended.

A picture in our exhibition 'Partners in the Pub' provides a perfect finale. On loan from the family of Matthew Hillbeck, long term landlord of the Marton Street Vaults, this picture has 82 different pub signs on it that need identifying.

Are you up to the challenge?

There are many prizes to play for all donated by local pubs. Quizzes can be picked up from the City or Maritime Museums - but parts of it are linked closely to the City Museum itself (just a hint). The completed quizzes must be handed into the Museum by the end of October - plenty of time to brood on the answers - and prize winners will be announced by the end of November.

So ... come on all you quiz fiends.

If you think you know what the Cross Keys in Market Street is today or what fruit is used to make calvados then we challenge you to try our quiz !