Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 4106 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Olympic event involves a plant in the box prior to a drop onto the pit?
Answer: A: Pole vault
Categories: Sports (4) Athletics (4) Olympics (4)

Pub quiz question 4105 by pjh2

Question: Q: What Olympic event is based on what was once used as a practical means to travel round the fens of England's eastern counties?
Answer: A: Pole vault
Categories: Sports (7) Athletics (7) Olympics (7)

Pub quiz question 4104 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the closest Olympic event to the Dutch sport of fierjjeppen?
Answer: A: Pole vault
Categories: Sports (6) Olympics (6) Language (6) Athletics (6)

Pub quiz question 4103 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Australian city staged the 2000 Games where Sir Steven Redgrave became the first rower to win five consecutive Olympic gold Medals?
Answer: A: Sydney
Categories: Geography (2) Olympics (2) 2000s (2) Sports (2)

Pub quiz question 4102 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many upright supports are permitted for an Olympic high jump crossbar?
Answer: A: Two
Categories: Sports (3) Olympics (3) Athletics (3)

Pub quiz question 4101 by pjh2

Question: Q: What regular venue for the Changing of the Guard is set to set to stage beach volleyball at the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: A: Horse Guard Parade
Categories: London, UK (7) 2010s (7) Olympics (7) Sports (7)

Pub quiz question 4100 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which sport saw America take their dream team, including Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, to the Barcelona Olympics in 1992?
Answer: A: Basketball
Categories: 1990s (3) Olympics (3) Sports (3)

Pub quiz question 4099 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which city's 1980 Olympic Games were the target of a US-led boycott?
Answer: A: Moscow's
Categories: Sports (5) Olympics (5) Geography (5) 1980s (5)

Pub quiz question 4098 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which city's 1972 Olympics were staged to celebrate peace but were marred by a terrorist attack?
Answer: A: Munich's
Categories: 1970s (5) Olympics (5) Geography (5) Sports (5)

Pub quiz question 4097 by pjh2

Question: Q: What gruelling event in Barcelona saw Derartu Tulu of Ethopia become the first black African Olympic champion?
Answer: A: 10,000 meters
Categories: Olympics (7) Sports (7) Athletics (7)

Pub quiz question 4096 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who are the only non-English side to have won the FA Cup?
Answer: A: Cardiff City
Categories: Geography (6) Football (4) Sports (4)

Pub quiz question 4095 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does the FA of FA Cup stand for?
Answer: A: Football Association
Categories: Acronyms/Abbreviations (2) Sports (2) Football (2)

Pub quiz question 4094 by pjh2

Question: Q: What stadium staged the 2006 FA Cup?
Answer: A: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Categories: Sports (4) Football (4) 2000s (6)

Pub quiz question 4093 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who were the first FA Cup winners not to defend their title?
Answer: A: Manchester United
Notes: *: 1999 - they failed to enter the FA Cup, instead electing to take part in the inaugural FIFA Club World Championship played in Brazil.
Categories: Sports (5) Football (5) 1990s (5)

Pub quiz question 4092 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was the first reigning monarch to watch an FA Cup Final?
Answer: A: George V
Notes: *: 1914
Categories: Sports (7) Royalty (7) History (7) Football (6)

Pub quiz question 4091 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the name of the horse which cleared the Wembly pitch for the famous White Horse Final?
Answer: A: Billie
Notes: *: 1923
Categories: Sports (8) Football (8) 1920s (9)

Pub quiz question 4090 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which former London market now better known as an entertainment and shopping complex, was the birthplace of JMW Turner?
Answer: A: Covent Garden
Categories: Art (6) London, UK (6) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 4089 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which pioneering pilots are commemorated by a marble statue at Heathrow Airport?
Answer: A: John Alcock and Arthur Brown
Notes: *: The first two aviators to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919
Categories: Art (6) London, UK (6)

Pub quiz question 4088 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Queen is depicted with her daughters in a great bronze statue by Westminister Bridge?
Answer: A: Boudica/Boadicea
Categories: Royalty (6) Art (6) London, UK (6)

Pub quiz question 4087 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which London tourist attraction's famous fourth plinth became the site for Marc Quinn's sculpture of naked and pregnant Alison Lapper in 2005?
Answer: A: Trafalgar Square
Categories: London, UK (2) 2000s (2) Geography (2) Art (2)

Pub quiz question 4086 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which children's writer was ninth on the 2006 list of the world's highest earning entertainers?
Answer: A: JK Rowling
Categories: Literature (2) 2000s (2) Entertainment (2)

Pub quiz question 4085 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who, in 2004, became the first person to become a US dollar billionaire by writing books?
Answer: A: JK Rowling
Categories: Literature (2) 2000s (2)

Pub quiz question 4084 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which children's writer's name was given to newly discovered asteroid 43844 in 2006?
Answer: A: JK Rowling's
Categories: Literature (4) Science (4) 2000s (4) Astronomy (4)

Pub quiz question 4083 by pjh2

Question: Q: What writer invented a middle initial to go with her real first one as her publisher feared boys wouldn't books by a woman?
Answer: A: Joanne Rowling (JK Rowling)
Categories: Literature (3) Names (3)

Pub quiz question 4082 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who produced two booklets for Comic Relief under the names of Newt Scamander and Kennilworthy Whisp?
Answer: A: JK Rowling
Categories: Literature (5) Entertainment (5)