Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 5381 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the Latin word for lead, from which the chemical symbol Pb is derived?
Answer: A: Plumbum
Categories: Language (4) Chemistry (2) Science (3)

Pub quiz question 5380 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the second largest of the Great Lakes by surface area?
Answer: A: Lake Huron
Notes: *: It's third by volume - Lake Michigan is second by volume
Categories: Geography (7)

Pub quiz question 5379 by pjh2

Question: Q: In which Texas city was President John F. Kennedy assassinated in 1963?
Answer: A: Dallas
Categories: Politics (3) Geography (4) 1960s (4)

Pub quiz question 5378 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which mathematician is said to have run naked into the street shouting "Eureka?"
Answer: A: Archimedes
Categories: Science (2) Mathematics (2)

Pub quiz question 5377 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which artist and typographer carved the Stations of the Cross in Westminster Cathedral?
Answer: A: Eric Gill
Categories: Art (7) Religion (7)

Pub quiz question 5376 by pjh2

Question: Q: In which European country is composer and conductor Gustav Mahler's birthplace?
Answer: A: Czech Republic
Categories: Geography (7) Music (7)

Pub quiz question 5375 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which actress plays an unlikely drug dealer in the film Saving Grace?
Answer: A: Brenda Blethyn
Notes: *: 2000
Categories: Entertainment (5) Film/Movies (5) 2000s (5)

Pub quiz question 5374 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who won an Oscar for directing My Fair Lady?
Answer: A: George Cukor
Notes: *: 1964
Categories: Entertainment (4) Film/Movies (4) 1960s (4)

Pub quiz question 5373 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which red giant is the fourth brightest star in the Sky?
Answer: A: Arcturus
Categories: Space (7) Astronomy (7)

Pub quiz question 5372 by pjh2

Question: Q: What have to be interpreted in a Rorschach test?
Answer: A: inkblots
Categories: Science (2)

Pub quiz question 5371 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which controversial film rewrote history to give the Americans credit for capturing an Enigma decoding machine?
Answer: A: U-571
Notes: *: Set in 1942, released in 2000
Categories: Entertainment (5) Film/Movies (5) 1940s (5) 2000s (5) Military (5)

Pub quiz question 5370 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which classic yacht race begins annually on Boxing Day?
Answer: A: Sydney-to-Hobart race
Categories: Sports (6) Christmas (6)

Pub quiz question 5369 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which emergency first aid procedure is known by the abbreviation CPR?
Answer: A: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Categories: Science (4)

Pub quiz question 5368 by pjh2

Question: Q: In the 1995 Bond film GoldenEye, which character was played by Samantha Bond?
Answer: A: Miss Moneypenny
Categories: 1990s (5) Entertainment (5) Film/Movies (5)

Pub quiz question 5367 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Brookside character was played by Paul Usher?
Answer: A: Barry Grant
Categories: Soaps (4) Television (4) Entertainment (4)

Pub quiz question 5366 by pjh2

Question: Q: In 1995, which band broke Michael Jackson's record for first-week sales of a double album in America?
Answer: A: The Beatles
Notes: *: The Beatles Anthology Volume 1 - sold 855,473 copies in the U.S. from 21 November to 28 November 1995. HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I sold about 391,000 in it's first week June 16, 1995
Categories: Entertainment (5) Music (5) 1990s (5)

Pub quiz question 5365 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who played Jimmy Porter in the 1959 version of Look Back in Anger?
Answer: A: Richard Burton
Categories: 1950s (5) Entertainment (5) Film/Movies (5)

Pub quiz question 5364 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Star Trek character was played on TV and film by DeForrest Kelley?
Answer: A: Dr McCoy
Categories: SciFi (3) Star Trek (1) Entertainment (3) Film/Movies (3) Television (3)

Pub quiz question 5363 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which 1995 film starred Kevin Bacon as a convict and Christian Slater as his defence attorney?
Answer: A: Murder in the First
Categories: 1990s (5) Entertainment (5) Film/Movies (5) Crime (5)

Pub quiz question 5362 by pjh2

Question: Q: How is Glasgow-born pop-star James Ure better known?
Answer: A: Midge Ure
Categories: Entertainment (5) Names (5) Music (5)

Pub quiz question 5361 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who were voted Best Group and Worst Group at the 1995 Smash Hits Poll Winners' Party?
Answer: A: Take That
Categories: Entertainment (5) Music (5) 1990s (5)

Pub quiz question 5360 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who had a UK number one hit single in 1972 with Take Me Back 'Ome?
Answer: A: Slade
Categories: Entertainment (4) Music (4) 1970s (4)

Pub quiz question 5359 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who directed the 1977 film New York New York?
Answer: A: Martin Scorsese
Categories: Entertainment (5) Film/Movies (5) 1970s (5)

Pub quiz question 5358 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which former sitcom starred Jimmy Jewel and Hylda Baker, and was set in Pledges pickle factory?
Answer: A: Nearest and Dearest
Categories: SitComs (6) Entertainment (6) Television (6)

Pub quiz question 5357 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who directed and starred in 1985's Pale Rider?
Answer: A: Clint Eastwood
Categories: Entertainment (5) Film/Movies (5) 1980s (5)