Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 4281 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which continent produces most of the world's cocoa beans?
Answer: A: Africa
Categories: Geography (5) Food (5)

Pub quiz question 4280 by pjh2

Question: Q: What did the ancient Mayans drink some 2,600 years ago that was turned into a solid treat during the 18th century?
Answer: A: Chocolate
Categories: History (6) Food (6)

Pub quiz question 4279 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which liquid did Swiss candle maker Daniel Peter first add to chocolate in 1867?
Answer: A: Milk
Categories: Drink (6) History (6)

Pub quiz question 4278 by pjh2

Question: Q: What C is the proper name for a fairground roundabout ride?
Answer: A: Carousel
Categories: Leisure (1) Language (1)

Pub quiz question 4277 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the alternative name for a theme park 'switchback railway'?
Answer: A: Roller Coaster
Categories: Language (5) Leisure (5)

Pub quiz question 4276 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the surname of the man who invented the Big Wheel fairground ride?
Answer: A: (George Washington Gale) Ferris(, Jr)
Categories: Names (2) Leisure (2)

Pub quiz question 4275 by pjh2

Question: Q: What now-common fairground ride was first erected at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with an axle that was at the time the world's largest piece of forged steel?
Answer: A: Ferris Wheel/Big Wheel
Notes: *: The original was also known as the Chicago Wheel
Categories: Leisure (3) History (3)

Pub quiz question 4274 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Alton Towers ride that opened in March 1998 boasts a '200ft 4.5G plummet to the centre of the earth?'
Answer: A: Oblivion
Categories: Leisure (6)

Pub quiz question 4273 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which British theme park boasts 'The Big Dipper,' originally built in 1923?
Answer: A: Blackpool 'Pleasure Beach'
Categories: Leisure (6) 1920s (6)

Pub quiz question 4272 by pjh2

Question: Q: In what direction do growing bananas point?
Answer: A: Upwards
Categories: Nature (1) Food (1)

Pub quiz question 4271 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the Fyffes Line shipping fleet built to carry?
Answer: A: Bananas
Categories: Business (2) Food (1)

Pub quiz question 4270 by pjh2

Question: Q: What fruit crop is grown in more countries than any other?
Answer: A: Banana
Categories: Food (5)

Pub quiz question 4269 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is usually given to banana cultivated for cooking?
Answer: A: Plantain
Categories: Food (4) Language (4)

Pub quiz question 4268 by pjh2

Question: Q: What rank fourth after rice, wheat and maize in terms of human food production?
Answer: A: Bananas
Categories: Food (5)

Pub quiz question 4267 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which common fruit's skin did hippy bible 'The Anarchist's Cookbook' claim could be dried then smoked as an hallucinogenic?
Answer: A: Bananas
Categories: Food (7) Literature (7)

Pub quiz question 4266 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the main levening ingredient used in bread production?
Answer: A: Yeast
Categories: Food (1) Biology (1) Nature (1)

Pub quiz question 4265 by pjh2

Question: Q: What word starting with B means a French Stick?
Answer: A: Baguette
Categories: Language (2) Food (2)

Pub quiz question 4264 by pjh2

Question: Q: What brand name for malted white or brown flour with wheatgerm and wholegrains was produced for Hovis?
Answer: A: Granary
Categories: Business (4) Food (4)

Pub quiz question 4263 by pjh2

Question: Q: What style of British loaf has one third of the dough baked in a round on top of the other two thirds?
Answer: A: Cottage loaf
Categories: Food (5)

Pub quiz question 4262 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the supermarket term for bread made with endosperm and 10% bran?
Answer: A: Brown bread
Categories: Food (6)

Pub quiz question 4261 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many arroheads are there on the recycling symbol?
Answer: A: Three
Categories: Logos (1) Technology (1)

Pub quiz question 4260 by pjh2

Question: Q: What term means to reprocess materials that would otherwise become waste to turn them into new products?
Answer: A: Recycle
Categories: Technology (2)

Pub quiz question 4259 by pjh2

Question: Q: What metal is the world's most recycled material?
Answer: A: Steel
Categories: Technology (3)

Pub quiz question 4258 by pjh2

Question: Q: What decade saw the start of paper recycling in the UK with the formation of the British Waste Paper Association?
Answer: A: 1920s
Notes: *: 1921
Categories: Technology (7) History (7)

Pub quiz question 4257 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does an entomologist study?
Answer: A: Insects
Categories: Language (5) Nature (5) Biology (5)