Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 8038 by pjh

Question: Q: What afflicted London from 5-9 December 1952?
Answer: A: Great Smog.
Categories: Science (6) 1950s (6)

Pub quiz question 8037 by pjh

Question: Q: Other than humans, which animals can carry leprosy?
Answer: A: Armadillos.
Categories: Science (7) Biology (7)

Pub quiz question 8036 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Ely; Thanet; Purbeck; Portland; Dogs?
Answer: A: UK "isles" that are not really islands.
Categories: Connections (7) Geography (5)

Pub quiz question 8035 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Beatles 1967 opus; Stanley in The Pirates Of Penzance; 1933 film score by Prokofiev?
Answer: A: Musical army ranks: Sgt Pepper; (the very model of a modern) major-general; Lieutenant Kijé.
Categories: Connections (7) Politics (6) Music (6)

Pub quiz question 8034 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Theravada; Mahayana; Vajrayana?
Answer: A: Movement or schools of Buddhism.
Categories: Connections (9) Religion (5)

Pub quiz question 8033 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Canada; US; Hong Kong; Fiji; Australia; New Zealand; East Caribbean; Liberia?
Answer: A: Dollar currencies.
Categories: Connections (6) Geography (5) Politics (5) Finance (3)

Pub quiz question 8032 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Pirates; Penguins; Steelers?
Answer: A: Pittsburgh sports teams
Notes: *: Baseball; ice hockey; American football.
Categories: Connections (6) Sports (4)

Pub quiz question 8031 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Michelle Collins (in 2011); Brian Capron; June Brown; Jill Halfpenny?
Answer: A: Actors who've appeared in both Coronation Street and Eastenders.
Categories: Connections (7) Entertainment (5) Soaps (4)

Pub quiz question 8030 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Duodenum; jejunum; ileum?
Answer: A: Segments of the small intestine.
Categories: Connections (8) Science (7) Biology (6)

Pub quiz question 8029 by pjh

Question: Q: The earliest surviving English private correspondence is by which Norfolk family?
Answer: A: The Pastons.
Notes: *: 1422 -1509
Categories: Literature (9) 1400s (8) 1500s (8)

Pub quiz question 8028 by pjh

Question: Q: Who published his uncertainty principle in 1927?
Answer: A: Werner Heisenberg.
Categories: Science (4) People (6) 1920s (6)

Pub quiz question 8027 by pjh

Question: Q: "No hugging, no learning" was the motto of which comedy series?
Answer: A: Seinfeld.
Categories: Entertainment (7) Television (7)

Pub quiz question 8026 by pjh

Question: Q: Who was nicknamed Muttnik in 1957?
Answer: A: Laika (Soviet space dog).
Categories: Science (9) Astronomy (8) Russia (7) 1950s (6)

Pub quiz question 8025 by pjh

Question: Q: Which conductor has won a record 31 Grammy awards?
Answer: A: Sir Georg Solti.
Categories: Music (9) People (9)

Pub quiz question 8024 by pjh

Question: Q: The last heir to which empire died in July 2012 aged 98?
Answer: A: Austro-Hungarian (Otto von Habsburg).
Categories: Politics (9) Royalty (9) 2010s (9)

Pub quiz question 8023 by pjh

Question: Q: Which film was based on Ted Lewis's novel Jack's Return Home?
Answer: A: Get Carter (and its remakes).
Categories: Entertainment (7) Film/Movies (7) Literature (7)

Pub quiz question 8022 by pjh

Question: Q: What did Peter Minuit buy in 1626 for around 60 guilders?
Answer: A: Manhattan island.
Categories: 1600s (8) Geography (9)

Pub quiz question 8021 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Lake Manzala; Lake Timsah; Great Bitter Lake; Little Bitter Lake?
Answer: A: Connected by the Suez Canal.
Categories: Connections (7) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 8020 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Secret and Rocky; Tufty; Ratatoskr; Nutkin?
Answer: A: Fictional squirrels: in cartoons
Notes: *: Road safety campaign; in Norse myth; in B Potter story.
Categories: Connections (5) Children (4)

Pub quiz question 8019 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I; Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Pasha; German invasion of the USSR?
Answer: A: Barbarossa
Notes: *: byname; nickname in Europe; codename of 1941 attack.
Categories: Connections (9) Names (8)

Pub quiz question 8018 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: David Bowie; Rod Steiger; Telly Savalas; Michael Palin?
Answer: A: All played Pontius Pilate on screen.
Categories: Connections (8) Entertainment (6)

Pub quiz question 8017 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Sochi in Russia; Pyeongchang in South Korea, Beijing in China, Milan–Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy?
Answer: A: Host cities of Winter Olympics
Notes: *: 2014; 2018, 2022, 2026
Categories: Connections (9) Sports (5) Olympics (1)

Pub quiz question 8016 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Rose Tavern brothel (3rd); Fleet prison (7th); Bedlam hospital (8th)?
Answer: A: Scenes from William Hogarth's Rake's Progress.
Categories: Connections (8) Art (4)

Pub quiz question 8015 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Larynx; flight data recorder; St Stephen's Day?
Answer: A: Boxes
Notes: *: Voice box; black box; Boxing Day.
Categories: Connections (3)

Pub quiz question 8014 by pjh

Question: Q: Which astronomical event is depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry?
Answer: A: Appearance of Halley's Comet.
Categories: Science (4) Astronomy (3)