Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 7191 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Queen spent most of her later life wearing black in mourning for her husband?
Answer: A: Queen Victoria
Categories: Royalty (1) People (1)

Pub quiz question 7190 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Queen married her first cousin who she met when she was 16-years-old?
Answer: A: Queen Victoria
Categories: Royalty (2)

Pub quiz question 7189 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which of her servant's hair was Victoria buried clutching a lock of?
Answer: A: John Smith's
Categories: Royalty (4) Sleaze (4)

Pub quiz question 7188 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the only language the future Queen Victoria was taught up to the age of three?
Answer: A: German
Categories: Language (4) Royalty (4)

Pub quiz question 7187 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was Queen Victoria's first name?
Answer: A: Alexandrina
Notes: *: Victoria was her last name, House of Hanover
Categories: Royalty (5) Names (5) People (5)

Pub quiz question 7186 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which engineer accompanied Queen Victoria on her first rail journey?
Answer: A: Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Categories: People (6) Royalty (7) Transport (7)

Pub quiz question 7185 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who is said to have been presented to Julius Caesar in a carpet?
Answer: A: Cleopatra
Categories: Royalty (1) Politics (1)

Pub quiz question 7184 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Egyptian Queen is said to have died following a bite from an asp?
Answer: A: Cleopatra
Categories: Royalty (2)

Pub quiz question 7183 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Egyptian Queen's name is Greek for 'Father's Glory'?
Answer: A: Cleopatra's
Categories: Royalty (4) Names (4)

Pub quiz question 7182 by pjh2

Question: Q: What priceless object is Cleopatra said to have dissolved in a cup of vinegar before drinking it?
Answer: A: A pearl
Categories: Royalty (4)

Pub quiz question 7181 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was already the husband of Octavia Minor when he married Cleopatra?
Answer: A: Mark Antony
Categories: Royalty (4) People (4)

Pub quiz question 7180 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was the father of Cleopatra's twins?
Answer: A: Mark Antony
Categories: Royalty (5) People (5)

Pub quiz question 7179 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which city's Bastille was stormed in 1789?
Answer: A: Paris
Categories: Buildings (1) Military (1) Politics (1) Geography (1)

Pub quiz question 7178 by pjh2

Question: Q: What European capital was dubbed the City of Light in the 19th century?
Answer: A: Paris
Categories: Geography (2)

Pub quiz question 7177 by pjh2

Question: Q: What city did Yasser Arafat die in?
Answer: A: Paris
Categories: People (5) Geography (5)

Pub quiz question 7176 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which historic area of Paris must be visited to enter the 'Sacré-Cœur'?
Answer: A: Montmartre
Categories: Geography (7) Religion (7)

Pub quiz question 7175 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which fashionable street in Paris boasts the site where the guillotine stood?
Answer: A: Place de la Concorde
Categories: Crime (6) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 7174 by pjh2

Question: Q: What disease killed 20,000 Parisians in 1832?
Answer: A: Cholera
Categories: Nature (8) History (8)

Pub quiz question 7173 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which member of the royal family went to America to complain that the British media 'hate anyone who succeeds'?
Answer: A: Prince Edward
Categories: Quotations (8) Royalty (8)

Pub quiz question 7172 by pjh2

Question: Q: What had an Australian called the Earl of Wessex when he snapped 'I won't recognise that name'?
Answer: A: Eddie
Categories: Names (6) Quotations (6) Royalty (6)

Pub quiz question 7171 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Russian President failed to make it off his aircraft when he flew to Ireland to meet Albert Reynolds in 1994?
Answer: A: Boris Yeltsin
Notes: *: It was alleged he was too drunk, though the official version was he was unwell/overslept
Categories: Politics (4) 1990s (4) People (4)

Pub quiz question 7170 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who, in 1999, became the second President of the Russian Federation?
Answer: A: Vladimir Putin
Categories: 1990s (6) Politics (6) People (6)

Pub quiz question 7169 by pjh2

Question: Q: Whose 1939 nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize was retracted in February of that same year?
Answer: A: Adolf Hitler's
Categories: People (2) Politics (2) 1930s (2)

Pub quiz question 7168 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which organisation shared the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize with Kofi Annan?
Answer: A: United Nations
Categories: 2000s (3) Politics (3) People (3)

Pub quiz question 7167 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which US President's assassination put an end to his negotiations for a joint USA/USSR space programme with Nikita Khrushchev?
Answer: A: John F Kennedy's
Notes: *: Assassinated 1963
Categories: People (1) 1960s (1) Politics (1) Space (1) Science (1)