Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 4231 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which brand name has become a generic term in the English Dictionary meaning 'to clean with a vacuum cleaner?'
Answer: A: Hoover
Categories: Language (1)

Pub quiz question 4230 by pjh2

Question: Q: What word starting with 'U' describes a vacuum cleaner with a bag attached to its vertical handle?
Answer: A: Upright
Categories: Language (1)

Pub quiz question 4229 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which British designer invented the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner?
Answer: A: James Dyson
Categories: Business (2) Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4228 by pjh2

Question: Q: What did James Murray Spangler add to the vacuum cleaner to loosen dust before it was sucked up?
Answer: A: Rotating brushes
Categories: Science (4)

Pub quiz question 4227 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the surname of Susan, the woman James Murray Spangler gave one of his newly invented vacuum cleaners to, and who's husband bought the patent?
Answer: A: Hoover
Categories: Names (6) Science (6)

Pub quiz question 4226 by pjh2

Question: Q: What did H Cecil Booth invent the first powered example of after watching a device used for blowing dust of train seats?
Answer: A: Vacuum cleaner
Categories: Business (3) Science (3)

Pub quiz question 4225 by pjh2

Question: Q: What word starting with D is the fin on the back of a whale?
Answer: A: Dorsal
Categories: Nature (1) Biology (1)

Pub quiz question 4224 by pjh2

Question: Q: What do whales feed their young?
Answer: A: Milk
Notes: *: They're mammals, not fish
Categories: Nature (2) Biology (2)

Pub quiz question 4223 by pjh2

Question: Q: What vehicle's first passenger carrying service was the Vickers VA-3 travelling from Wallasey to Rhyl in 1961?
Answer: A: Hovercraft
Categories: Science (5) 1960s (5)

Pub quiz question 4222 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many blowholes has a toothed whale?
Answer: A: One
Categories: Biology (5) Nature (5)

Pub quiz question 4221 by pjh2

Question: Q: What perfume ingredient comes from the intestine of the sperm whale?
Answer: A: Ambergris
Categories: Science (8) Nature (8)

Pub quiz question 4220 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the common name for an ACV or air-cushion vehicle?
Answer: A: Hovercraft
Categories: Acronyms/Abbreviations (3) Language (3)

Pub quiz question 4219 by pjh2

Question: Q: What kind of vehicle has an impeller and a skirt?
Answer: A: Hovercraft
Categories: Science (4)

Pub quiz question 4218 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was Charles J Fletcher's Glidenmobile an early forerunner of?
Answer: A: Hovercraft
Categories: Science (3)

Pub quiz question 4217 by pjh2

Question: Q: What household device provided Christopher Cockerell with the motor for his early hovercraft experiments?
Answer: A: Vacuum cleaner
Categories: Science (6)

Pub quiz question 4216 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which member of the royal family's name was given to the hovercraft which broke the cross-channel commercial car-carrying record in 1995?
Answer: A: Princess Anne's
Categories: Royalty (5) Science (7) 1990s (7)

Pub quiz question 4215 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which plant is often called marijuana when dried and hashish as resin?
Answer: A: Cannabis
Categories: Science (3) Nature (3)

Pub quiz question 4214 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which drug was downgraded from a Class B to a Class C drug in Britain in 2004?
Answer: A: Cannabis
Categories: Nature (2) Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4213 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the commonest number of points, or leaflets, in a cannabis leaf?
Answer: A: Seven
Categories: Nature (4) Science (4)

Pub quiz question 4212 by pjh2

Question: Q: What ingredient in beer is from the same plant family as cannabis?
Answer: A: Hops
Categories: Drink (3) Nature (4) Science (4)

Pub quiz question 4211 by pjh2

Question: Q: What pachyderm comes in three living species: Asian, African Savannah and African Forest?
Answer: A: Elephant
Categories: Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 4210 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the most noticeable physical difference between African and Asian elephants apart from their size?
Answer: A: Ears
Categories: Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 4209 by pjh2

Question: Q: What four letter H word is used to describe cannabis grown for non-drug use?
Answer: A: Hemp
Categories: Science (4) Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 4208 by pjh2

Question: Q: What vitamin's principle form is ascorbic acid?
Answer: A: Vitamin C's
Categories: Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4207 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to an elephant's second upper incisors?
Answer: A: Tusks
Categories: Nature (2)