Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 4840 by pjh2

Question: Q: What breed is often called the Apollo of Dogs?
Answer: A: Great Dane
Categories: Language (8) Nature (8)

Pub quiz question 4839 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which P-word is given to birds reared for human consumption
Answer: A: Poultry
Categories: Science (1) Biology (1) Nature (1) Language (1)

Pub quiz question 4838 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which bird, with a unique call, lays its eggs in other birds nests?
Answer: A: Cuckoo
Categories: Science (1) Nature (1)

Pub quiz question 4837 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which birds were traditionally used as gas detectors in coal mines?
Answer: A: Canaries
Categories: Nature (2) Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4836 by pjh2

Question: Q: What are categorised as the biological class 'aves?'
Answer: A: Birds
Categories: Language (5) Science (5) Nature (5) Biology (5)

Pub quiz question 4835 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the main constituant of an eggshell?
Answer: A: Calcium carbonate (limestone/chalk)
Categories: Chemistry (4) Biology (5) Nature (5) Science (5)

Pub quiz question 4834 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which birds are commonly used by Chinese and Japanese fishermen?
Answer: A: Cormorants
Categories: Nature (7) Science (7) Geography (7)

Pub quiz question 4833 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the bottom left number on a touchtone telephone?
Answer: A: Seven
Categories: Science (1) Technology (1)

Pub quiz question 4832 by pjh2

Question: Q: What form of communication doubled in the UK between March 2002 and March 2003?
Answer: A: Texting/SMS
Categories: Science (1) 2000s (1) Technology (1)

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)