Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 6931 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name did Baden-Powell give to the junior Scouts movement based on a book by Rudyard Kipling?
Answer: A: Wolf Cubs
Categories: Leisure (3)

Pub quiz question 6930 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which hero of Mafeking's "Aid to Scouting," book for soldiers spawned the world wide Scout movement?
Answer: A: Robert Beden-Powells
Categories: Leisure (5) Literature (5)

Pub quiz question 6929 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name was given to the international meetings of Scuts, first held at Olympia in 1920?
Answer: A: Jamborees
Categories: 1920s (5) Leisure (5)

Pub quiz question 6928 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which island in Poole Harbour was used by Baden-Powell to try out his ideas for Scouting with boys?
Answer: A: Brownsea Island
Categories: Leisure (8) Geography (8)

Pub quiz question 6927 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which country's Scouting movement was spawned in 1909 when visitor William Boyce was helped through the London fog by a Scout doing his good turn?
Answer: A: USA's
Categories: Leisure (8)

Pub quiz question 6926 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Liberal leader was asked by Jeremy Paxman if he drank privately; "by yourself, a bottle of whisky late at night?"
Answer: A: Charles Kennedy
Notes: *: 2002 interview
Categories: Politics (3) 2000s (3) Drink (3)

Pub quiz question 6925 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was by far the heaviest MP to have represented Rochdale?
Answer: A: Cyril Smith
Categories: Politics (3)

Pub quiz question 6924 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Liberal Party leader is said to have written to his gay lover: "Bunnies can and will go to France?"
Answer: A: Jeremy Thorpe
Notes: *: Exposed in court in 1979
Categories: Politics (5) 1970s (5)

Pub quiz question 6923 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Liberal Party leader's alleged involvement in the shooting of a Great Dane resulted in Auberon Waugh forming his Dog Lover Party?
Answer: A: Jeremy Thorpe's
Notes: *: 1979
Categories: Politics (7) 1970s (7)

Pub quiz question 6922 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who married Sarah Gurling, his best friend's sister in 2002?
Answer: A: Charles Kennedy
Categories: Politics (7) 2000s (7)

Pub quiz question 6921 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which UK Prime Minister was nicknamed Sunny Jim?
Answer: A: James Callaghan
Categories: Names (2) Politics (2)

Pub quiz question 6920 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which UK Prime Minister launched his Back to Basics campaign before his four year affair with Edwina Currie became public knowledge?
Answer: A: John Major
Notes: *: 1993
Categories: 1990s (4) Politics (4) Sleaze (4)

Pub quiz question 6919 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was the only UK Prime Minister to win four 20th century general elections?
Answer: A: Harold Wilson
Notes: *: 1964, 1966, Feb 1974, Oct 1974
Categories: Politics (5) 1960s (5) 1970s (5)

Pub quiz question 6918 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which UK Prime Minister won the 1969 Sydney to Hobart yacht race on "Morning Cloud?"
Answer: A: Edward Heath
Notes: *: 1969
Categories: Sports (6) 1960s (6) Politics (6)

Pub quiz question 6917 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which UK Prime Minister claimed "A soundbite never buttered any parsnips?"
Answer: A: John Major
Notes: *: 1998
Categories: 1990s (4) Quotations (6) Politics (6)

Pub quiz question 6916 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which former UK Prime Minister was Britain's longest serving MP when he retired from the House in 2001?
Answer: A: Edward Heath
Categories: 2000s (6) Politics (7)

Pub quiz question 6915 by pjh2

Question: Q: What title did Sophie Rhys-Jones adopt when she married Prince Edward?
Answer: A: Countess of Wessex
Notes: *: Married 1999
Categories: Royalty (4) 1990s (4)

Pub quiz question 6914 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who played 'God Save the Queen' from the roof of Buckingham Palace during the Golden Jubilee celebrations?
Answer: A: Brian May
Notes: *: 2002
Categories: Entertainment (3) Music (3) 2000s (3) Royalty (2)

Pub quiz question 6913 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which leader of a political party joined the queue to be one of the first tourists to enter Buckhingham Palace when it opened to the public in 1993?
Answer: A: Screaming Lord Sutch
Notes: *: founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, served 1983 until his death in 1999
Categories: Politics (6) Royalty (6) 1990s (6)

Pub quiz question 6912 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which building's garden, originally landscaped by (Lancelot) "Capability" Brown, is the largest private garden in London?
Answer: A: Buckingham Palace's
Categories: Royalty (2) Buildings (4)

Pub quiz question 6911 by pjh2

Question: Q: What city was Terry Waite kidnapped in?
Answer: A: Beirut
Notes: *: Kidnapped 1987, released 1991
Categories: 1980s (4) 1990s (4) Geography (4) Politics (4) Religion (5) Military (4)

Pub quiz question 6910 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which high-ranking church official was Terry Waite working for when he was kidnapped?
Answer: A: Archbishop of Canterbury (Robert Runcie)
Notes: *: Kidnapped 1987, released 1991
Categories: Politics (3) Military (3) 1980s (3) 1990s (3) Religion (3)

Pub quiz question 6909 by pjh2

Question: Q: What kidnap victim was the subject of a song by The Fall?
Answer: A: Terry Waite
Notes: *: Entitled "Terry Waite Sez"
Categories: 1980s (6) 1990s (6) Music (6) Military (6) Politics (6)

Pub quiz question 6908 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which member of the royal family said of Buckingham Palace débutante presentations: "We had to stop it, every tart in London was getting in?"
Answer: A: Princess Margaret
Categories: Royalty (8)

Pub quiz question 6907 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who said while in captivity he'd been sent a picture of a stained-glass window depicting John Bunyan?
Answer: A: Terry Waite
Notes: *: Kidnapped 1987, released 1991
Categories: 1980s (7) 1990s (7) Literature (7) Military (7) Politics (7)