Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 7613 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Sgt Pepper (Beatles); Stanley Road (Paul Weller); Stop The Clocks (Oasis)?
Answer: A: Album covers by Peter Blake.
Categories: Connections (8) People (8) Music (8) Entertainment (8)

Pub quiz question 7612 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Led the Liberals; Dzhugashvili; Fe and C?
Answer: A: Steel
Notes: *: David Steel; Stalin (named after Steel); made of iron and carbon.
Categories: Connections (6) Politics (6) Science (6)

Pub quiz question 7611 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Daleks; Survivors; Blake's Seven?
Answer: A: Created by Terry Nation.
Categories: Connections (4) SciFi (4) Television (4)

Pub quiz question 7610 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Camus; Gordimer; Mahfouz; Soyinka; Coetzee?
Answer: A: African-born Nobel laureate writers.
Categories: Connections (8) Literature (7)

Pub quiz question 7609 by pjh

Question: Q: Which pioneering animal died on 14 February 2003?
Answer: A: Dolly the Sheep.
Categories: Science (4) Biology (4) 2000s (4)

Pub quiz question 7608 by pjh

Question: Q: Egremont Crab Fair is the home to which world championship?
Answer: A: Gurning.
Categories: Sports (6) General Knowledge (5)

Pub quiz question 7607 by pjh

Question: Q: Which spice derives from a crocus?
Answer: A: Saffron.
Categories: Food (4) Biology (4) General Knowledge (4)

Pub quiz question 7606 by pjh

Question: Q: What happened to two imperial regents and their scribe, Prague, 1618?
Answer: A: Defenestrated.
Notes: *: Thought to be what prompted the Thirty years war
Categories: War (5) 1600s (5)

Pub quiz question 7605 by pjh

Question: Q: Which is the closest star to the solar system?
Answer: A: Proxima Centauri
Notes: *: 4.3 light years away
Categories: Science (4) Astronomy (4)

Pub quiz question 7604 by pjh

Question: Q: Which film is memorably set in the Park Hyatt hotel in Tokyo?
Answer: A: Lost in Translation.
Notes: *: 2003
Categories: Entertainment (4) Film/Movies (4) 2000s (4)

Pub quiz question 7603 by pjh

Question: Q: Alessandro Moreschi was the last of what sort of performer?
Answer: A: Castrato singer.
Notes: *: 1858-1922
Categories: Entertainment (7) Music (6)

Pub quiz question 7602 by pjh

Question: Q: Who was upset by her absence from the index of John Major's autobiography?
Answer: A: Edwina Currie.
Categories: Politics (4) Literature (4)

Pub quiz question 7601 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Yap; Chuuk; Pohnpei; Kosrae?
Answer: A: The Federated States of Micronesia
Categories: Connections (8) Geography (8)

Pub quiz question 7600 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: David Nicholls; Yevgeny Zamyatin; Rider Haggard?
Answer: A: Pronoun-titles novels
Notes: *: Us; We; She
Categories: Connections (7) Literature (6)

Pub quiz question 7599 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Olympus Mons; Ascraeus Mons; Elysium Mons; Arsia Mons; Pavonis Mons?
Answer: A: Volcanoes on Mars
Categories: Connections (7) Science (7) Astronomy (5)

Pub quiz question 7598 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Beauchamp-Feuillet; Benesh; Laban; Eshkol-Wachman?
Answer: A: Dance/movement notation systems
Categories: Connections (8) Language (8)

Pub quiz question 7597 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: The Dustbin, Cookham; The Resurrection, Cookham; Swan Upping at Cookham?
Answer: A: Works by Stanley Spencer
Categories: Connections (9) Art (8)

Pub quiz question 7596 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Eagle, Vaz, Milliband?
Answer: A: Siblings in the House of Commons
Notes: *: Maria and Angela; Keith and Valerie; Ed and David.
Categories: Connections (7) Politics (6)

Pub quiz question 7595 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Peter Llewelyn Davies; Alice Liddell; Christopher Milne
Answer: A: Inspired characters in children’s literature
Notes: *: Peter Pan; Alice; Christopher Robin.
Categories: Connections (5) Literature (4) Children (5)

Pub quiz question 7594 by pjh

Question: Q: What film was inspired by a 1947 motorbike rally in Hollister, CA?
Answer: A: Marlon Brando’s The Wild one
Notes: *: Filmed 1953
Categories: Film/Movies (6) 1940s (7) 1950s (7) Entertainment (7)

Pub quiz question 7593 by pjh

Question: Q: Who introduced the idea of introvert and extrovert personalities?
Answer: A: Carl Jung
Categories: People (7) Science (7)

Pub quiz question 7592 by pjh

Question: Q: Jürgen Hingsen was a perennial runner-up to which athlete?
Answer: A: Daley Thompson
Notes: *: 1980-84
Categories: Sports (6) 1980s (5)

Pub quiz question 7591 by pjh

Question: Q: What “prove the upper classes have still the upper hand”?
Answer: A: Stately Homes of England
Notes: *: Song by Noël Coward from the musical Operette. 1938
Categories: Music (6) Art (7) Entertainment (6)

Pub quiz question 7590 by pjh

Question: Q: Who is the only US president to have killed someone in a duel?
Answer: A: Andrew Jackson
Notes: *: 1806
Categories: 1800s (7) America (7) Politics (7)

Pub quiz question 7589 by pjh

Question: Q: What brand started in 1884 at Kirkgate Market, Leeds?
Answer: A: Marks & Spencer
Categories: 1800s (7) Business (7)