Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 8063 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Frogs; Birds; Clouds; Wasps?
Answer: A: Plays by Aristophanes.
Categories: Connections (8) Literature (8)

Pub quiz question 8062 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Gumdrop; Charlie Brown; Columbia; Yankee Clipper; Odyssey; Kitty Hawk?
Answer: A: Command modules of Apollos 9-14.
Categories: Connections (8) Science (8) Astronomy (7)

Pub quiz question 8061 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Holography; ballpoint pen; Rubik's cube?
Answer: A: Invented by Hungarians
Notes: *: Dennis Gabor; Laszlo Biro; Erno Rubik.
Categories: Connections (7)

Pub quiz question 8060 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Samson; Annet; St Helen's; Tean; Great Ganilly?
Answer: A: Uninhabited Isles of Scilly.
Categories: Connections (8) Geography (7)

Pub quiz question 8059 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Victoria (originally King's); St Stephen's; Central; Clock?
Answer: A: Towers at the Palace of Westminster.
Categories: Connections (5) Buildings (5)

Pub quiz question 8058 by pjh

Question: Q: Which chart did Oliver and Olivia top in both 2009 and 2010?
Answer: A: Most popular baby names in England and Wales.
Categories: Language (6) Names (6) 2010s (6)

Pub quiz question 8057 by pjh

Question: Q: A pangram is a sentence containing what?
Answer: A: Every letter of the alphabet.
Categories: Language (6)

Pub quiz question 8056 by pjh

Question: Q: Doug Richard, Simon Woodroffe, Rachel Elnaugh – who are missing?
Answer: A: Peter Jones and Duncan Bannatyne
Notes: *: First Dragons' Den panel
Categories: Television (7) Entertainment (8)

Pub quiz question 8055 by pjh

Question: Q: Whose acting debut was in Hercules In New York?
Answer: A: Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Notes: *: 1970
Categories: Film/Movies (7) Entertainment (7) 1970s (6)

Pub quiz question 8054 by pjh

Question: Q: Which teams compete for the Pataudi Trophy?
Answer: A: England and India
Notes: *: Test Cricket
Categories: Geography (8) Sports (6)

Pub quiz question 8053 by pjh

Question: Q: Which school was in a "cradle of fog and fog-bred pestilence"?
Answer: A: Lowood in Jane Eyre.
Categories: Literature (7)

Pub quiz question 8052 by pjh

Question: Q: Which Delacroix painting celebrated 1830's July Revolution?
Answer: A: Liberty Leading The People.
Categories: Art (9) 1800s (8)

Pub quiz question 8051 by pjh

Question: Q: Bangui is the capital of which aptly named country?
Answer: A: Central African Republic.
Categories: Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 8050 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: New York (2); Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts (1 each)?
Answer: A: Ivy League universities
Notes: *: Columbia and Cornell; Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Harvard.
Categories: Connections (7)

Pub quiz question 8049 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Hope; Millennium Star; Tiffany; Cullinan; Koh-i-Noor?
Answer: A: Celebrated diamonds.
Categories: Connections (5)

Pub quiz question 8048 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Broad (in 2011); Sidebottom; Hoggard; Gough; Cork; Loader?
Answer: A: Taken Test hat-tricks for England since 1945.
Categories: Connections (8) Cricket (5)

Pub quiz question 8047 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Mrs Robinson actor; Hard Times author; Jazz's First Lady of Song; youngest Beatle?
Answer: A: Consecutive initials
Notes: *: Anne Bancroft; Charles Dickens; Ella Fitzgerald; George Harrison.
Categories: Connections (8) Language (8)

Pub quiz question 8046 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Native Australian nut; 19th-century road surface innovation?
Answer: A: Named after Johns
Notes: *: Macadam/McAdam: macadamia; macadam.
Categories: Connections (9)

Pub quiz question 8045 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Himself (blood); John Sulston (bacteria); Alison Lapper (marble); Kate Moss (gold)?
Answer: A: Sculptures by Marc Quinn: models and materials.
Categories: Connections (8) Art (7)

Pub quiz question 8044 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: 11 (5th); 29 (10th); 229 (50th); 541 (100th)?
Answer: A: Prime numbers.
Categories: Connections (4) Mathematics (3) Science (4)

Pub quiz question 8043 by pjh

Question: Q: Which publican is William Thackeray's great-great-great-grandson?
Answer: A: Pub Landlord (Al Murray).
Categories: Entertainment (7) Comedy (6) People (6)

Pub quiz question 8042 by pjh

Question: Q: What became the largest country in Africa in 2011?
Answer: A: Algeria (after split of Sudan).
Categories: Geography (7) 2010s (7)

Pub quiz question 8041 by pjh

Question: Q: "Honi soit qui mal y pense" is whose motto?
Answer: A: Order of the Garter.
Notes: *: founded by Edward III of England in 1348
Categories: Royalty (8) Politics (7) 1300s (7)

Pub quiz question 8040 by pjh

Question: Q: The Minoan civilisation was based on which island?
Answer: A: Crete.
Categories: Geography (8)

Pub quiz question 8039 by pjh

Question: Q: What was the house band of Stax Records?
Answer: A: Booker T & the MGs.
Categories: Entertainment (8) Music (8)