Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 7166 by pjh2

Question: Q: What musical instrument did Boris Yeltsin present to Bill Clinton during the US President's 1994 visit to Russia?
Answer: A: Saxophone
Categories: Entertainment (2) Music (2) Politics (2) 1990s (2)

Pub quiz question 7165 by pjh2

Question: Q: What did UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ask for when Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on the desk at the United Nations?
Answer: A: A translation
Notes: *: 1960
Categories: 1960s (7) Politics (7) People (7)

Pub quiz question 7164 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which leader of the Soviet Union was depicted on 'Spitting Image' with a hammer and sickle birthmark on his head?
Answer: A: Mikhail Gorbachev
Categories: Politics (6) Entertainment (6) Television (6) Comedy (6) People (6)

Pub quiz question 7163 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which civil rights campaigner was awarded the 1965 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: A: Martin Luther King Jr.
Categories: People (3) 1960s (3) Politics (3)

Pub quiz question 7162 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which 2006 Nobel Peace Price nominee has sold the most records?
Answer: A: Bono
Categories: 2000s (2) Entertainment (2) Music (1) People (2) Politics (1)

Pub quiz question 7161 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is by far the best known invention of Peace Prize founder Alfred Nobel?
Answer: A: Dynamite
Categories: Science (1) People (1)

Pub quiz question 7160 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who shared the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize with David Trimble?
Answer: A: John Hume
Notes: *: Northern Island peace
Categories: 1990s (8) Politics (8)

Pub quiz question 7159 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which sensitive creature complained that the milk float outside the Legoland model of nearby Windsor Castle was delivering to the wrong door?
Answer: A: Prince Phillip
Categories: Royalty (3) Leisure (3) People (4) Buildings (3)

Pub quiz question 7158 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Prince spent £325,000 of public money in one year hiring planes and helicopters including flights to St Andrews golf course?
Answer: A: Prince Andrew
Categories: Royalty (1) Sports (1) Golf (1) People (1)

Pub quiz question 7157 by pjh2

Question: Q: What were guests at Prince Edward's wedding asked not to wear?
Answer: A: Hats
Categories: Royalty (5) Fashion (5)

Pub quiz question 7156 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who asked a Scottish driving instructor 'How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?'
Answer: A: Prince Phillip
Notes: *: 1995
Categories: Quotations (6) Royalty (4) People (6) 1990s (7)

Pub quiz question 7155 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the country of birth of Henry Kissinger?
Answer: A: Germany
Categories: People (3) Geography (3) Politics (3)

Pub quiz question 7154 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which former US Secretary of State's glasses were found in a toilet by Homer Simpson?
Answer: A: Henry Kissinger's
Categories: Politics (4) People (4) Cartoons (4) Television (4) Entertainment (4)

Pub quiz question 7153 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who did Richard Nixon pass on to Gerald Ford as US Secretary of State?
Answer: A: Henry Kissinger
Notes: *: 1974
Categories: Politics (5) 1970s (5) People (5)

Pub quiz question 7152 by pjh2

Question: Q: What US Secretary of State said 'There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full'?
Answer: A: Henry Kissinger
Categories: Politics (5) Quotations (5) People (5)

Pub quiz question 7151 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is Henry Kissinger's less Anglicized actual first name?
Answer: A: Heinz
Categories: Names (6) Politics (6) People (6)

Pub quiz question 7150 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which eastern Prime Minister did Henry Kissinger refer to as a 'bitch'?
Answer: A: Indira Ghandi
Categories: Politics (7)

Pub quiz question 7149 by pjh2

Question: Q: Where, in a 1961 speech, did John F Kennedy say the USA should commit to landing a man before the decade was out?
Answer: A: On the moon
Categories: Quotations (1) Science (1) 1960s (1) Space (1)

Pub quiz question 7148 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was the first American in space?
Answer: A: Alan Shepard
Notes: *: May 5 1961
Categories: People (3) Science (3) 1960s (3) Space (3)

Pub quiz question 7147 by pjh2

Question: Q: What country's space travellers have been taikonauts since 1998?
Answer: A: China's
Categories: Science (4) Language (4) 1990s (4) Space (4)

Pub quiz question 7146 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which veteran American astronaut made a trip into space at the age of 77?
Answer: A: John Glenn
Notes: *: October 29, 1998
Categories: 1990s (6) People (6) Science (6) Space (6)

Pub quiz question 7145 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was the first British astronaut?
Answer: A: Helen Sharman
Notes: *: 18 May 1991
Categories: People (7) Space (7) Science (7) 1990s (7)

Pub quiz question 7144 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is Yuri Gagarin said to have done after leaving the bus just prior to the first space flight that has become a tradition with Russian cosmonauts?
Answer: A: Urinated on its wheel
Notes: *: 12 April 1961
Categories: People (9) Space (9) Science (9) 1960s (9) Superstitions (5)

Pub quiz question 7143 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which former Prime Minister was voted the Greatest-Ever Briton on a 2002 BBC poll?
Answer: A: Sir Winston Churchill
Categories: People (1) 2000s (1) Entertainment (1) Television (1) Politics (1)

Pub quiz question 7142 by pjh2

Question: Q: What sign was synonymous with Sir Winston Churchill?
Answer: A: V for victory
Categories: People (2) Politics (2)