Category

1930s 75 questions.
1930-1939
Pub quiz question 394 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which person from history famously opened the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
  2. Answer: A: Adolf Hitler
  3. Categories: 1930s (1) Olympics (1) Sports (1) History (1)
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Pub quiz question 6475 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who signed the Anti-Comintern Pact in 1936?
  2. Answer: A: Germany and Japan
  3. Categories: Military (8) 1930s (8)
Pub quiz question 3063 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which university was attended by Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Harold Philby, Anthony Blunt, and the unknown fifth person in the 1930s?
  2. Answer: A: Cambridge (Trinity)
  3. Notes: *: The 'Cambridge Five'
  4. Categories: 1930s (4) History (5) Military (5)
Pub quiz question 3193 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which of Canada's nation games was a demonstration sport at the Olympics in 1928, 1932 and 1948?
  2. Answer: A: Lacrosse
  3. Categories: Sports (7) Olympics (7) 1920s (7) 1930s (7)
Pub quiz question 5737 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What name was given to a Japanese pilot who flew suicide missions in World War II?
  2. Answer: A: Kamakazi
  3. Notes: *: 1939-1946
  4. Categories: Military (2) 1930s (2) 1940s (2)
Pub quiz question 4784 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which classic movie's lead rôle did Gary Cooper turn down with the words '[it] will be the biggest flop in Hollywood history?'
  2. Answer: A: Gone with the Wind
  3. Notes: *: Book: 1936, Film 1939
  4. Categories: 1930s (4) Film/Movies (4) Literature (4)
Pub quiz question 7339 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Charles Hamilton, Frank Kennedy - matrimonially, who came next?
  2. Answer: A: Rhett Butler
  3. Notes: *: Scarlett O'Hara's husbands in Gone With The Wind (Novel 1936, Film 1939)
  4. Categories: Literature (6) General Knowledge (8) Film/Movies (6) Entertainment (7) 1930s (7)
Pub quiz question 8200 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Who is the longest serving presenter of the BBC children's show Blue Peter?
  2. Answer: A: John Noakes (12 years from 1965-1978)
  3. Categories: 1930s (6) Entertainment (6) Children (5) 1960s (5) 1970s (5)
Pub quiz question 5200 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which synthetic fibre was introduced commercially in 1938?
  2. Answer: A: Nylon
  3. Categories: Science (3) 1930s (3)
Pub quiz question 7169 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Whose 1939 nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize was retracted in February of that same year?
  2. Answer: A: Adolf Hitler's
  3. Categories: People (2) Politics (2) 1930s (2)