Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 4240 by pjh2

Question: Q: What common garden flowers are fed to chickens to give them skin an appealing golden colour?
Answer: A: Marigolds
Categories: Food (7) Nature (7)

Pub quiz question 4239 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the second-commonest source of sugar after sugar-cane?
Answer: A: Sugar beet
Categories: Nature (2) Food (2)

Pub quiz question 4238 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was Europe's favourite sweetener prior to the introduction of sugar?
Answer: A: Honey
Categories: Nature (3) Food (3)

Pub quiz question 4237 by pjh2

Question: Q: What did Alexander the Great's men see in India that they described as 'honey produced without the intervention of bees?'
Answer: A: Sugar
Categories: Nature (6) Food (6)

Pub quiz question 4236 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the most common alternative name for sucrose?
Answer: A: Sugar
Categories: Nature (4) Science (4) Food (3)

Pub quiz question 4235 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to sugar with a grain size of approximately 0.5mm? (between 1/64'' and 2/64'')
Answer: A: Granulated
Categories: Food (5)

Pub quiz question 4234 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which sugar takes its name from the original source in Guyana?
Answer: A: Demerara
Categories: Language (7) Geography (7) Food (7)

Pub quiz question 4233 by pjh2

Question: Q: What four letter name is given to the killer whale?
Answer: A: Orca
Categories: Language (4) Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 4232 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to the sieve-like structure in the upper jaw of plankton-eating whales?
Answer: A: Baleen
Categories: Biology (7) Nature (7)

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)