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Religion 182 questions.

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Pub quiz question 6987 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which British author did Ayatollah Khomeini sentence to death?
Answer: A: Salman Rushdie
Notes: *: 14 February 1989
Categories: Literature (1) Religion (1) 1980s (1)

Pub quiz question 5783 by pjh2

Question: Q: Moonstone or pearl are the birthstones for which month?
Answer: A: June
Notes: *: From the standardised list from 1912
Categories: Religion (3) Superstitions (3)

Pub quiz question 7515 by pjh

Question: Q: Odysseus and Ajax quarrelled over whose armour?
Answer: A: Achilles
Categories: Mythology (5) Religion (5)

Pub quiz question 7246 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which saint died in the last 6th or early 7th century after founding a monastery in what is now Pembrokeshire?
Answer: A: St David
Categories: Religion (4) History (4)

Pub quiz question 5009 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which chuchman first called South Africa the Rainbow Nation?
Answer: A: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Categories: Geography (7) Religion (7)

Pub quiz question 5770 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the birthstone for March?
Answer: A: Aquamarine (or bloodstone)
Notes: *: From the standardised list from 1912
Categories: Religion (4) Superstitions (4)

Pub quiz question 4928 by pjh2

Question: Q: What singing, dancing scientologist played Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction?
Answer: A: John Travolta
Notes: *: 1994
Categories: Film/Movies (3) Entertainment (3) Religion (2) 1990s (3)

Pub quiz question 7381 by pjh

Question: Q: Devadatta tried repeatedly to kill which religious leader?
Answer: A: Buddha
Categories: Religion (4) People (6)

Pub quiz question 6144 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which was the only one of the accepted nine plants at the start of the 21st century not to be named after a Roman or Greek god?
Answer: A: Earth
Categories: Space (1) Religion (1)

Pub quiz question 3801 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which day of the week is Shrove once a year?
Answer: A: Tuesday
Categories: Religion (2) Food (2)
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