Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 7663 by pjh

Question: Q: AFG is the international car registration code for which country?
Answer: A: Afghanistan
Categories: General Knowledge (7) Geography (6) Road signs (6) Transport (6)

Pub quiz question 7662 by pjh

Question: Q: Why don't polar bears eat penguins?
Answer: A: They live on different continents
Categories: Geography (2) Biology (2) Riddles (2)

Pub quiz question 7661 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Richard Nixon; Barry Goldwater; Hubert Humphrey & George Wallace?
Answer: A: Losing US presidential candidates of the 60s.
Categories: Connections (6) America (6) People (6) 1960s (6)

Pub quiz question 7660 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Eagle (1 & 2); Brandenburg Gate (50, 20, 10c); Oak twig (5, 2, 1c)?
Answer: A: German euro coins.
Categories: Connections (5) Politics (6)

Pub quiz question 7659 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Edna Turnblad; Vince Vega; Tony Manero; Danny Zuko?
Answer: A: John Travolta roles.
Categories: Connections (3) Entertainment (3) Film/Movies (3)

Pub quiz question 7658 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Favourite of Edward II; Langland allegory; editor turned talent judge?
Answer: A: Piers
Notes: *: Gaveston; Plowman; Morgan.
Categories: Connections (6) People (6) Entertainment (7) Royalty (7) Religion (8)

Pub quiz question 7657 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: 23˚ 26' 22" north and south of the equator; Henry Miller?
Answer: A: Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn; title of novels.
Categories: Literature (5) Geography (5) Connections (5)

Pub quiz question 7656 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Haywain; Garden Of Earthly Delights; Last Judgment; Temptation Of St Anthony?
Answer: A: Paintings by Hieronymus Bosch.
Categories: Art (7) Connections (7)

Pub quiz question 7655 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Old Kilpatrick (Firth of Clyde) and Bo'Ness (Firth of Forth)?
Answer: A: The Antonine Wall.
Categories: Buildings (6) Geography (6) Connections (6)

Pub quiz question 7654 by pjh

Question: Q: Which magazine describes itself as the Bible of boxing?
Answer: A: The Ring.
Categories: Literature (6) Boxing (3) Sports (4)

Pub quiz question 7653 by pjh

Question: Q: Which unit is equal to around 19 trillion miles?
Answer: A: Parsec.
Categories: Science (3) Astronomy (3) Physics (3)

Pub quiz question 7652 by pjh

Question: Q: Which musical aid was invented in 1711 by John Shore?
Answer: A: Tuning fork.
Categories: Science (6) Music (5) 1700s (6)

Pub quiz question 7651 by pjh

Question: Q: What is South African Denise Darvall's place in medical history?
Answer: A: Donor in first successful human heart transplant.
Notes: *: 1967. The recipient lived for 18 days.
Categories: Science (6) Biology (5) People (7) 1960s (7)

Pub quiz question 7650 by pjh

Question: Q: Which island was visited by Raphael Hythloday?
Answer: A: Utopia.
Notes: *: Published 1516
Categories: Literature (6) 1500s (6)

Pub quiz question 7649 by pjh

Question: Q: Whose hypothetical cat is simultaneously alive and dead?
Answer: A: Schrödinger's.
Categories: Science (4) Physics (4)

Pub quiz question 7648 by pjh

Question: Q: Which vessel was commanded by Charlie Allnut?
Answer: A: African Queen.
Notes: *: Novel 1935, film 1951
Categories: 1930s (6) 1950s (6) Literature (6) Film/Movies (6)

Pub quiz question 7647 by pjh

Question: Q: Where was the “Cult of the Supreme Being” declared as the state religion?
Answer: A: France (1794).
Notes: *: It lasted just under 3 months
Categories: 1700s (7) Religion (7)

Pub quiz question 7646 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: 1st (23 years and 11 months); 2nd (3y 3m); 3rd (1y 4m ); 4th (6m); 5th (1y 6m); 6th (3y 6m)?
Answer: A: Length of Henry VIII's marriages.
Categories: Royalty (4) General Knowledge (7)

Pub quiz question 7645 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes; The Story Of Tracy Beaker; The Lampitt Chronicles?
Answer: A: Books by Wilsons
Notes: *: Angus; Jacqueline; AN.
Categories: Literature (8)

Pub quiz question 7644 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Bonanno; Gambino; Colombo; Genovese; Lucchese?
Answer: A: Mafia “Five Families” of New York.
Categories: War (6) America (7) Politics (6)

Pub quiz question 7643 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Windsor; half Windsor; four in hand; Pratt?
Answer: A: Tie knots.
Categories: Language (7)

Pub quiz question 7642 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: 1968 Czech reforms; 1967 Flower Power; 1978-9 industrial unrest?
Answer: A: Seasons
Notes: *: Prague Spring; Summer of Love; Winter of Discontent.
Categories: 1960s (7) 1970s (7) Language (7)

Pub quiz question 7641 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Ben Macdui; Sca Fell; Garnedd Ugain; Slieve Commedagh?
Answer: A: Second highest peaks in Scotland, England, Wales; NI.
Categories: Geography (5)

Pub quiz question 7640 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin; Adrien Brody?
Answer: A: Acting Oscars for: The Piano; The Pianist.
Categories: Entertainment (6) Film/Movies (6)

Pub quiz question 7639 by pjh

Question: Q: Which opera is set in Catfish Row?
Answer: A: Porgy And Bess.
Categories: Art (6) Entertainment (6)