Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 5115 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does a citizen of Edinburgh call New Year?
Answer: A: Hogmanay
Categories: Language (1) Geography (1)

Pub quiz question 5114 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which is Scotland's second-largest city?
Answer: A: Edinburgh
Categories: Geography (2)

Pub quiz question 5113 by pjh2

Question: Q: What city is known as Auld reekie?
Answer: A: Edinburgh
Categories: Geography (3) Language (3)

Pub quiz question 5112 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which city's annual 'Fringe' is the world's largest arts festival?
Answer: A: Edinburgh's
Categories: Art (4) Geography (4)

Pub quiz question 5111 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name, taken from a series of Sir Walter Scott's novels, is given to Edinburgh's main railway station?
Answer: A: Waverley
Categories: Geography (5)

Pub quiz question 5110 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which German city is twinned with Edinburgh?
Answer: A: Munich
Categories: Geography (7)

Pub quiz question 5109 by pjh2

Question: Q: What type of cream is part of a traditional Devon Cream Tea?
Answer: A: Clotted Cream
Categories: Food (2) Geography (2)

Pub quiz question 5108 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which is the only English county with two completely separate coastlines?
Answer: A: Devon
Categories: Geography (3)

Pub quiz question 5107 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is give to the stretch of coast which includes Torquay Paignton and Brixham?
Answer: A: The English Riviera
Categories: Geography (5)

Pub quiz question 5106 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which English county boars the western section of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site?
Answer: A: Devon
Categories: Geography (5)

Pub quiz question 5105 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the county flower of Devon?
Answer: A: Primrose
Categories: Geography (7) Nature (7)

Pub quiz question 5104 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which city's MP, Ben Bradshaw, was the first to marry in a gay civil partnership ceremony?
Answer: A: Devon
Categories: Politics (7) Geography (7)

Pub quiz question 5103 by pjh2

Question: Q: What slogan for baked beans was voted Britain's favourite in a 2004 poll?
Answer: A: Beanz Meanz Heinz
Categories: Advertising (1) Television (1)

Pub quiz question 5102 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which beer allegedly 'refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach?'
Answer: A: Heineken
Categories: Television (2) Drink (2) Advertising (2)

Pub quiz question 5101 by pjh2

Question: Q: What three words complete the advertising slogan: 'Don't just book it...?'
Answer: A: Thomas Cook It.
Categories: Advertising (4) Television (4)

Pub quiz question 5100 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was advertised as having a 'lotta bottle?'
Answer: A: Milk
Notes: *: 1982/3
Categories: Advertising (4) Television (4) 1980s (4)

Pub quiz question 5099 by pjh2

Question: Q: What product had the slogan 'WotalotIgot?'
Answer: A: Smarties
Categories: Advertising (7)

Pub quiz question 5098 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was sold in cinemas with the slogan 'We all adore a ...?'
Answer: A: Kia-Ora
Categories: Entertainment (7) Advertising (7)

Pub quiz question 5097 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which musical instrument does Sherlock Holmes play for relaxation?
Answer: A: Violin
Categories: Music (1) Literature (1) Television (1) Entertainment (1)

Pub quiz question 5096 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which fictional detective is often depicted smoking a pipe while wearing a deerstalker hat?
Answer: A: Sherlock Holmes
Categories: Literature (2) Television (2) Entertainment (2)

Pub quiz question 5095 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which character narrates all but four of the Sherlock Holmes stories?
Answer: A: Dr Watson
Categories: Literature (2) Television (2) Entertainment (2)

Pub quiz question 5094 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many times does Conan Doyle refer to Sherlock Holmes wearing a deerstalker hat in his four novels and 56 short stories?
Answer: A: He doesn't
Categories: Literature (6)

Pub quiz question 5093 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which fictional character has been played by more actors than any others?
Answer: A: Sherlock Holmes
Categories: Literature (5) Television (5) Film/Movies (5) Entertainment (5)

Pub quiz question 5092 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which monarch is said to have given Sherlock Holmes his emerald tie-pin?
Answer: A: Queen Victoria
Categories: Royalty (8) Television (8) Entertainment (8) Literature (7)

Pub quiz question 5091 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many squares are there on a Scrabble board?
Answer: A: 225
Notes: *: 25 x 25
Categories: Games (5) Leisure (5)