Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 3356 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which leader's thoughts are set out in 'The Green Book?'
Answer: A: Mummar Al Qadhafi's (or however it's spelt this week.)
Categories: Literature (8) Geography (8) Politics (8)

Pub quiz question 3355 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the collective name for a group of pet cats?
Answer: A: A clowder
Categories: Nature (4) Language (4)

Pub quiz question 3354 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to domesticated cats which have escaped to live in the wild?
Answer: A: Feral
Categories: Language (2) Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 3353 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is a male cat if a female is a queen?
Answer: A: Tom
Categories: Language (1) Nature (1)

Pub quiz question 3352 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many pips (normally) comprise the Greenwich Time Signal?
Answer: A: Six
Notes: *: 5 short and 1 long. Seven (6+1) when there's a leap second inserted.
Categories: Science (5) General Knowledge (5)

Pub quiz question 3351 by pjh2

Question: Q: What did Jost Burgi first add to a clock in 1577 for those requiring a more accurate timepiece?
Answer: A: A minute hand
Categories: Science (5)

Pub quiz question 3350 by pjh2

Question: Q: What flowed through aincient Egyptian clepsydra to tell the time?
Answer: A: Water
Categories: Science (4)

Pub quiz question 3349 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was Christian Huygen's swinging invention that made clocks more accurate?
Answer: A: Pendulum
Categories: Science (3)

Pub quiz question 3348 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to a clock with a face and hands, as opposed to a digital clock which displays the time as numbers?
Answer: A: Analog
Categories: Science (3) Language (3)

Pub quiz question 3347 by pjh2

Question: Q: What never works at night and requires a gnomon to tell the time?
Answer: A: Sundial
Categories: Science (1)

Pub quiz question 3346 by pjh2

Question: Q: What Australian animal can be Common, Northern Hairy, Nosed or Southern Hairy-Nosed?
Answer: A: Wombat
Categories: Nature (8)

Pub quiz question 3345 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the main food of adult echidnas?
Answer: A: Ants or termites
Categories: Nature (5) Food (5)

Pub quiz question 3344 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which creature takes its name from the Aboriginal words for 'no drink?'
Answer: A: Koala
Categories: Nature (3) Language (3)

Pub quiz question 3343 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the name for a baby koala?
Answer: A: Joey
Categories: Language (2) Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 3342 by pjh2

Question: Q: What odd-looking Australian mammal has no nipples but feeds its young on milk which oozes from its body?
Answer: A: (Duck-billed) platypus
Categories: Nature (3) General Knowledge (3)

Pub quiz question 3341 by pjh2

Question: Q: What are the only vertebrate animals over the weight of 5kg (11lbs) which regularly move around by hopping?
Answer: A: Kangaroos
Categories: Nature (1) General Knowledge (1)

Pub quiz question 3340 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the only breed of cat that does not have retractable claws?
Answer: A: Cheetah
Categories: Nature (7)

Pub quiz question 3339 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many eyelids has a cat on each eye?
Answer: A: Three
Notes: *: Top, bottom and one inner that goes sideways
Categories: Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 3338 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which British breed of cat is tailless?
Answer: A: Manx
Categories: Nature (1)

Pub quiz question 3337 by pjh2

Question: Q: What fishing industry results in the deaths of thousands of dolphins?
Answer: A: Tuna fishing
Categories: Nature (3) Food (3)

Pub quiz question 3336 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which mammal's most common species is the bottlenose?
Answer: A: Dolphins
Categories: Nature (1)

Pub quiz question 3335 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which three letter name can mean a group of dolphins?
Answer: A: Pod
Categories: Nature (1) Language (1)

Pub quiz question 3334 by pjh2

Question: Q: What do dolphins have to think about that humans don't resulting in dolphins having to only close down half their brain when sleeping?
Answer: A: Breathing
Categories: Nature (3) Biology (3)

Pub quiz question 3333 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to a hybrid formed by a cross between a false killer whale and a bottlenose dolphin?
Answer: A: Wolphin
Categories: Language (5) Nature (5)

Pub quiz question 3332 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the common name for any member of the delphinidae family of swimming mammals?
Answer: A: Dolphins
Categories: Language (7) Nature (7)