Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 7538 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Fess; pale; bend sinister; saltire; pall; chevron?
Answer: A: Partitions of the shield in heraldry
Categories: Connections (8) Language (8)

Pub quiz question 7537 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Desperate Remedies; HMS Victory; South Australian wine; Bane?
Answer: A: Thomas/Tom Hardy
Notes: *: Wrote novel; captained at Trafalgar; founded company; played in The Dark Knight Rises
Categories: Connections (8) People (8) Entertainment (8) Business (8) War (8)

Pub quiz question 7536 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Leopold; Albertina; Belvedere; Essl; Mumok?
Answer: A: Museums in Vienna
Categories: Connections (7)

Pub quiz question 7535 by pjh

Question: Q: The French territory Saint Pierre and Miquelon lies off which country?
Answer: A: Canada (Newfoundland)
Categories: Geography (6) France (5)

Pub quiz question 7534 by pjh

Question: Q: Which visual aid was developed in 1887 by Adolf Fick?
Answer: A: Contact lenses
Categories: Science (7) 1800s (8)

Pub quiz question 7533 by pjh

Question: Q: What, originally, had feet of clay?
Answer: A: Statue in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream
Categories: Religion (3) Literature (5)

Pub quiz question 7532 by pjh

Question: Q: Which dystopia could be 232.8°C?
Answer: A: Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
Categories: Politics (7) Literature (6)

Pub quiz question 7531 by pjh

Question: Q: Who’s the only player to have scored 20,000-plus runs and taken 400-plus wickets in international Cricket?
Answer: A: South Africa’s Jacques Kallis
Categories: Cricket (5) Sports (6) People (6)

Pub quiz question 7530 by pjh

Question: Q: Which biologist coined the term “agnostic”?
Answer: A: TH Huxley
Categories: Religion (6) People (6) Biology (6)

Pub quiz question 7529 by pjh

Question: Q: In 1960, who made a speech lasting four hours 29 minutes at the UN?
Answer: A: Fidel Castro
Categories: Politics (6) 1960s (6)

Pub quiz question 7528 by pjh

Question: Q: Which English composer died at the Battle of the Somme?
Answer: A: George Butterworth
Categories: War (7) People (7)

Pub quiz question 7527 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Bermuda mystery; Trafalgar; Us Department of Defence; Reading theatre?
Answer: A: Shapes in ascending number of sides.
Notes: *: Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon
Categories: Connections (3) Mathematics (2) Geography (4)

Pub quiz question 7526 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: The 120 Days of Sodom and Venus in Furs?
Answer: A: Sadism and masochism - the origins of the words
Categories: Connections (7) Literature (7) Language (6)

Pub quiz question 7525 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Falkirk; Tewkesbury; Salisbury; Bristol?
Answer: A: They all stand on (different) River Avons
Categories: Connections (7) Geography (7)

Pub quiz question 7524 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Richard II; Richard III; Henry VIII, twice; James I?
Answer: A: Married Annes
Notes: *: Anne of Bohemia; Anne Neville; Anne Boleyn and Anne of Cleves; Anne of Denmark
Categories: Connections (5) Royalty (5)

Pub quiz question 7523 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Freddy's Revenge; Dream Warriors; The Dream Master; The Dream Child?
Answer: A: A Nightmare On Elm Street instalments
Categories: Connections (4) Film/Movies (4) Entertainment (4)

Pub quiz question 7522 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Pinot noir; pinot meunier; chardonnay?
Answer: A: Grape blend of (most) champagnes
Categories: Connections (7) Drink (5)

Pub quiz question 7521 by pjh

Question: Q: Eamon Dunphy and Roddy Doyle have been whose "ghosts?"
Answer: A: Roy Keane
Notes: *: They were ghostwriters
Categories: People (7) Literature (6)

Pub quiz question 7520 by pjh

Question: Q: Which ill-fated aircraft was designated LZ129?
Answer: A: Hindenburg airship
Categories: Transport (6) Germany (4) Science (7)

Pub quiz question 7519 by pjh

Question: Q: Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill demonstrated which connection?
Answer: A: The link between smoking and lung cancer
Categories: Connections (6) Science (6) Leisure (6)

Pub quiz question 7518 by pjh

Question: Q: Where were the first Olympics in the southern hemisphere?
Answer: A: Melbourne, 1956
Categories: 1950s (6) Sports (6) Australia (2) Olympics (5)

Pub quiz question 7517 by pjh

Question: Q: Which Hollywood star was born Natalia Zacharenko?
Answer: A: Natalie Wood
Categories: Entertainment (7) Names (7) Film/Movies (7) People (7)

Pub quiz question 7516 by pjh

Question: Q: Which British fabric has an orb trademark?
Answer: A: Harris Tweed
Categories: Business (7) Logos (7)

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 7514 by pjh

Question: Q: What book takes place "the summer the electrocuted the Rosenbergs"?
Answer: A: The Bell Jar
Notes: *: Sylvia Plath
Categories: Literature (8) People (8)