Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 4640 by pjh2

Question: Q: What part of the body does an orthopædic doctor treat?
Answer: A: Bones
Categories: Biology (2) Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4639 by pjh2

Question: Q: What fruit is commonly called the bramble?
Answer: A: Blackberry
Categories: Food (2) Language (2) Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 4638 by pjh2

Question: Q: What colour are cranberries before they turn red?
Answer: A: White
Categories: Food (3) Nature (3)

Pub quiz question 4637 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the only bone in the human body that doesn't directly connect to any other?
Answer: A: Hyoid
Categories: Biology (6) Nature (6)

Pub quiz question 4636 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is crossed with a blackberry and loganberry to produce a boysenberry?
Answer: A: Raspberry
Categories: Food (5) Nature (5)

Pub quiz question 4635 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to pens made from goose feathers?
Answer: A: Quill
Categories: Language (2) Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4634 by pjh2

Question: Q: What might a paramedic describe as either simple or compound?
Answer: A: Fracture
Categories: Biology (2) Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 4633 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which is the longest and heaviest bone in the human body?
Answer: A: Femur/thighbone
Categories: Nature (4) Biology (4)

Pub quiz question 4632 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many pairs of ribs are there in the human body?
Answer: A: Twelve
Categories: Nature (5) Biology (5)

Pub quiz question 4631 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to a pen with a reservoir of water based liquid ink that feeds to a nib?
Answer: A: Fountain pen
Categories: Science (3)

Pub quiz question 4630 by pjh2

Question: Q: What do you hoard if your collection inclues a Parker Duofold and a Waterman 42?
Answer: A: Fountain pen
Categories: Science (3) Leisure (3)

Pub quiz question 4629 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Hungarian journalist's surname has become a generic term in the UK for a ballpoint pen?
Answer: A: Laszlo Biro's
Categories: Names (3) Science (3)

Pub quiz question 4628 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which organisation developed the zero gravity Space Pen in the 1960's?
Answer: A: NASA
Categories: Science (4) Space (4)

Pub quiz question 4627 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name, originally describing a person who performed calculations has now come to mean an electronic machine which performs multiple tasks?
Answer: A: Computer
Categories: Science (2) Computing (2)

Pub quiz question 4626 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does CPU stand for when relating to computers?
Answer: A: Central Processing Unit
Categories: Acronyms/Abbreviations (2) Computing (2) Science (3)

Pub quiz question 4625 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does PDA stand for in computer terminology?
Answer: A: Personal Digital Assistant
Categories: Acronyms/Abbreviations (5) Computing (3)

Pub quiz question 4624 by pjh2

Question: Q: Whose 'Difference Engine' is often described as the first computer?
Answer: A: Charles Babbage's
Categories: Science (4) Computing (3)

Pub quiz question 4623 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many bits are there (commonly) in a byte?
Answer: A: Eight
Categories: Science (5) Computing (2)

Pub quiz question 4622 by pjh2

Question: Q: What did Clive Sinclair call the world's first pocket calculator launched in 1972?
Answer: A: Sinclair Executive
Categories: Science (8) Computing (8)

Pub quiz question 4621 by pjh2

Question: Q: What insulates the ice cream to prevent it from melting in the hot dish Baked Alaska?
Answer: A: Meringue
Categories: Food (4)

Pub quiz question 4620 by pjh2

Question: Q: What form of food preservation involves the removal of water content from frozen food?
Answer: A: Freeze drying
Categories: Science (3) Food (3)

Pub quiz question 4619 by pjh2

Question: Q: What frozen product consisted of cake spread with jam wrapped around a stick of vanilla ice cream?
Answer: A: Arctic Roll
Categories: Food (4)

Pub quiz question 4618 by pjh2

Question: Q: What did Nestlé freeze dry in 1938 that led to the development of powdered food products?
Answer: A: Coffee
Categories: Drink (3) Science (5)

Pub quiz question 4617 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who became a household name after inventing fast frozen foods?
Answer: A: Clarance Birdseye
Categories: Science (6) Food (5)

Pub quiz question 4616 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the main method of food preservation used by the Incas to store their potatoes?
Answer: A: Freeze drying
Notes: *: They used salt to a lesser extent
Categories: Science (5) Food (8)