Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 2988 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What was the first Jilly Cooper potboiler to be named after a sport?
  2. Answer: A: Polo
  3. Notes: *: Potboiler - a term used to describe a poor quality novel, play, opera, or film, or other creative work that was created quickly to make money.
  4. Categories: Literature (6)
Pub quiz question 2987 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What was the first of Jilly Cooper's "How To..." books?
  2. Answer: A: How to stay Married
  3. Categories: Literature (4)
Pub quiz question 2986 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who wrote the series of children's books featuring Little Mabel?
  2. Answer: A: Jilly Cooper
  3. Categories: Children (4) Literature (4)
Pub quiz question 2985 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who's books have included "Jolly Super," "Jolly Super Too," and "Jolly Superlative?"
  2. Answer: A: Jilly Cooper's
  3. Categories: Literature (2)
Pub quiz question 2984 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Shakespeare play opens with the King of Navarr and three companions taking an oath to devote three years to studying?
  2. Answer: A: Love's Labour's Lost
  3. Categories: Literature (8)
Pub quiz question 2983 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Shakespeare play sees the brother of a novice nun sentenced to death for fornication?
  2. Answer: A: Measure for Money
  3. Categories: Literature (7)
Pub quiz question 2982 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Shakespeare play asks: "To be or not to be?"
  2. Answer: A: Hamlet
  3. Categories: Literature (4) General Knowledge (4)
Pub quiz question 2981 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: In which Shakespeare play is it stated that "All the world's a stage?"
  2. Answer: A: As you like it
  3. Categories: Literature (4)
Pub quiz question 2980 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: In which of Shakespeare's plays does Antonio owe Shylock a pound of flesh?
  2. Answer: A: The Merchant of Venice
  3. Categories: Literature (1) General Knowledge (4)
Pub quiz question 2979 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which town in Northern Italy is the home of Valentine and Proteus, Shakespeare's 'Two Gentlemen?'
  2. Answer: A: Verona
  3. Categories: Geography (2) Literature (1)
Pub quiz question 2978 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Jane Austen novel's main character is Fanny Price?
  2. Answer: A: Mansfield Park
  3. Categories: Literature (8)
Pub quiz question 2977 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which of the Bennet sisters is 15-yr-old at the start of Pride and Prejudice?
  2. Answer: A: Lydia
  3. Categories: Literature (8)
Pub quiz question 2976 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What do sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood represent in the title of a Jane Austen Novel?
  2. Answer: A: Sense and Sensibility
  3. Categories: Literature (6)
Pub quiz question 2975 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Jane Austen novel includes the famous line "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife?"
  2. Answer: A: Pride and Prejudice
  3. Categories: Literature (4)
Pub quiz question 2974 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which four-letter girl's name gave Jane Austen the title for a comic novel?
  2. Answer: A: Emma
  3. Categories: Literature (1)
Pub quiz question 2973 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which English spa city, the setting for many of her novels, boasts the Jane Austen Centre?
  2. Answer: A: Bath
  3. Categories: Literature (1) Geography (1)
Pub quiz question 2972 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who are the last remaining human survivors from Earth when it is destroyed by the Vogons in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?
  2. Answer: A: Arthur Dent and Tricia McMillan(Trillian Astra)
  3. Categories: Entertainment (8) Television (8) Radio (8) Film/Movies (8) Literature (8)
Pub quiz question 2971 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: In which format (/media) was The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy first produced in?
  2. Answer: A: Radio play
  3. Notes: *: 1978. The books were written starting in 1979
  4. Categories: Television (7) Literature (7) Film/Movies (7) Entertainment (7) Radio (7)
Pub quiz question 2970 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Douglas Adams' best seller became a computer game in 1984?
  2. Answer: A: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
  3. Categories: Radio (3) Literature (3) Entertainment (4) Television (4)
Pub quiz question 2969 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What is the stolen "Heart of Gold" in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?
  2. Answer: A: Space ship
  3. Categories: Entertainment (4) Literature (4) Television (4) Film/Movies (4) Radio (4)
Pub quiz question 2968 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What car model gave its name to an alien in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?
  2. Answer: A: Ford (Prefect)
  3. Categories: Entertainment (1) Literature (1) Television (1) Film/Movies (1) Radio (1)
Pub quiz question 2967 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What is the name of the paranoid android in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?
  2. Answer: A: Marvin
  3. Categories: Entertainment (1) Literature (1) Television (1) Film/Movies (1) Radio (1)
Pub quiz question 2966 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which character was nicknamed the "Chesapeake Ripper?"
  2. Answer: A: Hannibal Lecter
  3. Notes: *: Pronunciation: `Chess-a-peek`
  4. Categories: Literature (8)
Pub quiz question 2965 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which author created the character of Dr Hannibal Lecter?
  2. Answer: A: Thomas Harris
  3. Categories: Literature (7) Entertainment (7)
Pub quiz question 2964 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which was the first movie adaptation of a Hannibal Lecter novel to feature Anthony Hopkins?
  2. Answer: A: Silence of the Lambs
  3. Categories: Literature (5) Film/Movies (5) Entertainment (5)
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