Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 4206 by pjh2

Question: Q: What drug takes its name from the Mexican Spanish name for the dried leaves and flowering tops of the hemp plant cannabis sativa?
Answer: A: Marajuana
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Pub quiz question 4205 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which land animal has the longest gestation period?
Answer: A: Elephant
Notes: *: 22 months
Categories: Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 4204 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many finger-like projections has an African elephant at the end of its trunk?
Answer: A: Two
Categories: Nature (3)

Pub quiz question 4203 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which island off the coast of India boasts the largest subspecies of Asian Elephan?
Answer: A: Sri Lanka
Categories: Nature (6) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 4202 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the first vitamin to be discovered and named?
Answer: A: Vitamin A
Categories: Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4201 by pjh2

Question: Q: What vitamin do sufferers of scurvy lack?
Answer: A: Vitamin C
Categories: Science (3) Biology (3)

Pub quiz question 4200 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which vitamin is mostly required for blood coagulation?
Answer: A: Vitamin K
Categories: Science (6) Biology (6)

Pub quiz question 4199 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which vitamin was isolated from fish liver oil in 1917?
Answer: A: Vitamin D
Categories: Food (7) Science (7) Biology (7)

Pub quiz question 4198 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which vitamin is milk fortified with in the USA to combat rickets?
Answer: A: Vitamin D
Categories: Drink (4) Science (4)

Pub quiz question 4197 by pjh2

Question: Q: A chameleon changes colour to match what?
Answer: A: Mood/temperature/emotion
Notes: *: 1x04. Klaxon answer: Environment/background.
Categories: QI (3) GI (3) Nature (4) Biology (4)

Pub quiz question 4196 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which film actor was described by the film critic John Simon as resembling a half-melted rubber bulldog?
Answer: A: Walter Matthau
Notes: *: 1x04
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Pub quiz question 4195 by pjh2

Question: Q: What's 15 miles away from everybody, and smells of geraniums?
Answer: A: The ozone layer.
Notes: *: 1x04
Categories: Science (6) QI (5)

Pub quiz question 4194 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who's face reminded Clive James of two crows that had crash-landed into the White Cliffs of Dover.
Answer: A: Barbara Cartland
Notes: *: 1x04
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Pub quiz question 4193 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which town did Charles Dickens describe as "the dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the earth?"
Answer: A: Chelmsford
Notes: *: 1x04
Categories: Literature (7) Geography (7) GI (4) QI (4) Quotations (7)

Pub quiz question 4192 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the main ingredient of air?
Answer: A: nitrogen
Notes: *: 1x04. Klaxon answers: Oxygen, carbon dioxide
Categories: QI (3) Science (3) GI (3)

Pub quiz question 4191 by pjh2

Question: Q: Where is the driest place on Earth?
Answer: A: Dry Valleys region, Antartica
Notes: *: 1x03. Klaxon answer: Sahara Desert. The average annual rainfall is less than two inches, about the same as the Sahara, but the Dry Valleys, are free from ice and snow, and which haven't seen rain for two million years.
Categories: GI (4) QI (4) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 4190 by pjh2

Question: Q: What provides more than 50% of the Earth's oxygen?
Answer: A: Algae
Notes: *: 1x03. Klaxon answer: Trees
Categories: Nature (6) Science (6) QI (4) GI (4)

Pub quiz question 4189 by pjh2

Question: Q: What did Atlas carry on his shoulders?
Answer: A: The sky/heavens
Notes: *: 1x03. Klaxon answer: the earth.
Categories: Mythology (3) QI (3) GI (3)

Pub quiz question 4188 by pjh2

Question: Q: What begins with A, has six C's and no B's?
Answer: A: Antarctica
Notes: *: 1x03 B's as in bees. C's as in seas: Ross Sea, the Davis Sea, the Weddell Sea, the Bellingshausen Sea, the Lazarev Sea, and the Amundsen Sea.
Categories: Geography (3) QI (3)

Pub quiz question 4187 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the longest animal in the world?
Answer: A: Lion's mane jellyfish
Notes: *: 1x03. Klaxon answer: Blue Whale. Fry incorrectly states that they the tendrils can grow up to 200ft, but the longest one discovered was only 120ft. Still longer than a blue whale though.
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Pub quiz question 4186 by pjh2

Question: Q: What man-made artifacts can be seen from the moon with the naked eye?
Answer: A: Nothing man-made can be seen.
Notes: *: 1x02. Klaxon answer: Great Wall of China
Categories: QI (3) GI (3) Science (5)

Pub quiz question 4185 by pjh2

Question: Q: What flavour is the oldest-known soup?
Answer: A: Hippopotamus
Notes: *: 1x02
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Pub quiz question 4184 by pjh2

Question: Q: To the nearest thousand, how many brides walked down the aisle in Britain last year?
Answer: A: Zero.
Notes: *: 1x02 Klaxon answer: Anything that isn't zero. The aisles in a church are either side of the nave, not down the middle.
Categories: Religion (6) QI (3) GI (3)

Pub quiz question 4183 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the name of the capital city of Thailand?
Answer: A: Krung Thep
Notes: *: 1x02. Klaxon answer: Bangkok
Categories: QI (4) GI (4) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 4182 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the name of Earth's second moon that was discovered in 1986?
Answer: A: Cruithne (Pron. croo-EEN-yeh)
Notes: *: 1x02. Fry incorrectly stated it was discovered in 1994
Categories: Science (7) QI (4) Astronomy (7)