Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 4831 by pjh2

Question: Q: What communications instrument takes its name from Greek words meaning 'far away voice?'
Answer: A: Telephone
Categories: Technology (2) Science (2) Language (3)

Pub quiz question 4830 by pjh2

Question: Q: What have Antonio Meucci, Johann Phillip Reis and Alexander Graham Bell all been credited with inventing?
Answer: A: Telephone
Categories: Technology (3) Science (3)

Pub quiz question 4829 by pjh2

Question: Q: What revolutionary telephone was invented in 1965 by Teri Pall?
Answer: A: Cordless telephone
Categories: 1960s (6) Technology (6) Science (6)

Pub quiz question 4828 by pjh2

Question: Q: What object's threat to health was the subject of the UK Government's 1999 Stewart Report?
Answer: A: Mobile phone's
Categories: Technology (7) Science (7) Politics (7)

Pub quiz question 4827 by pjh2

Question: Q: Alan Hope has led which political party since 1999?
Answer: A: The Official Monster Raving Loony Party
Categories: Politics (5) General Knowledge (8)

Pub quiz question 4826 by pjh2

Question: Q: A Munchkin is a breed of which animal?
Answer: A: Cat
Categories: Nature (7) Science (7)

Pub quiz question 4825 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the current geological epoch?
Answer: A: The Holocene
Categories: Nature (8) Science (8)

Pub quiz question 4824 by pjh2

Question: Q: Whose only losses at the French Open tennis were to Adriano Panetta?
Answer: A: Bjorn Borg
Notes: *: 1973, 1976
Categories: Sports (9) Tennis (9) 1970s (9)

Pub quiz question 4823 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who painted Dr. Tulip's anatomy lesson
Answer: A: Rembrandt
Categories: Art (7)

Pub quiz question 4822 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who did Desmond Leslie punch on Live TV in 1963?
Answer: A: Bernard Levin
Notes: *: That Was The Week That Was.
Categories: Television (8) Entertainment (8) 1960s (8)

Pub quiz question 4821 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the world's tallest contruction, 1884-1889?
Answer: A: Washington Monument
Categories: History (8) Buildings (4)

Pub quiz question 4820 by pjh2

Question: Q: Whose first adventure was in the Land of the Soviets?
Answer: A: Tintin
Categories: Literature (5)

Pub quiz question 4819 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which BBC series which has been running on and off for nearly 50 years is Hollywood threatening to make a movie of?
Answer: A: Dr Who
Categories: Current Affairs (4)

Pub quiz question 4818 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which musical features a troupe of dancing Ku Klux Klan members?
Answer: A: Jerry Springer: The Opera
Categories: Art (4) Entertainment (4)

Pub quiz question 4817 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which northern UK city is home to the Hallé Orchestra?
Answer: A: Manchester
Categories: Music (4) Art (4)

Pub quiz question 4816 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which French museum's entrance is beneath a giant glass pyramid?
Answer: A: The Louvre's
Categories: Art (2) Buildings (2)

Pub quiz question 4815 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to the London theatre district between the Strand to the south, Oxford Street to the north, Regent Street to the west and Kingsway to the east?
Answer: A: The West End
Categories: London, UK (3) Geography (3) Art (3)

Pub quiz question 4814 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Agatha Christie whodunit holds the West End longest-run record?
Answer: A: The Mouse Trap
Categories: Art (3) London, UK (3) Entertainment (3)

Pub quiz question 4813 by pjh2

Question: Q: What Victor Hugo-based entertainment became the world's longest-running musical in 2006?
Answer: A: Les Misérables
Categories: Art (4) London, UK (4) Entertainment (4) 2000s (4)

Pub quiz question 4812 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which musical's movie premier was preceded by a parade of horse drawn surreys with fringes on top?
Answer: A: Oklahoma's
Categories: Entertainment (5) Art (5) Film/Movies (5)

Pub quiz question 4811 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the only American state with its official song taken from a Rogers and Hammerstein musical?
Answer: A: Oklahoma
Categories: Art (3) Entertainment (3) Politics (3) Geography (3) Film/Movies (3)

Pub quiz question 4810 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the longest running musical in West End history at the time it closed in 2002?
Answer: A: Cats
Categories: 2000s (6) Art (6) Entertainment (6)

Pub quiz question 4809 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which West End prince-and-pauper musical tells the tale of Liverpudlian siblings Mickey and Eddie?
Answer: A: Blood Brothers
Categories: Art (7) Entertainment (7)

Pub quiz question 4808 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which 1955 musical movie was filmed in Arizona because its title state was so heavily developed?
Answer: A: Oklahoma!
Categories: Art (4) 1950s (5) Entertainment (5) Geography (5) Film/Movies (5)

Pub quiz question 4807 by pjh2

Question: Q: What were the Society of West End Theatre Awards renamed in 1984 in honour of a British Actor?
Answer: A: The Laurence Olivier Awards
Categories: Art (7) Entertainment (7)