Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 5081 by pjh2

Question: Q: Second class stamps are to cost how much after 30th April 2012?
Answer: A: 50p
Notes: *: First class to go up to 60p
Categories: Current Affairs (5)

Pub quiz question 5080 by pjh2

Question: Q: What sport featured in the long running BBC TV show Pot Black?
Answer: A: Snooker
Categories: Sports (3) Entertainment (3) Television (3) Leisure (3)

Pub quiz question 5079 by pjh2

Question: Q: how many pockets has a championship snooker table
Answer: A: six
Categories: Sports (2) Leisure (2) Snooker (2)

Pub quiz question 5078 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does KO stand for in boxing lingo?
Answer: A: Knock Out
Categories: Sports (1) Boxing (1) Acronyms/Abbreviations (1)

Pub quiz question 5077 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who won the World Snooker Championship seven times in the 1990s?
Answer: A: Stephen Hendry
Categories: Sports (3) Leisure (3) 1990s (3) Snooker (3)

Pub quiz question 5076 by pjh2

Question: Q: What colour ball sits at the top of the triangle of reds at the start of a snooker match?
Answer: A: Pink
Categories: Sports (2) Leisure (2) Snooker (1)

Pub quiz question 5075 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to the line running across a snooker table?
Answer: A: Baulk line
Categories: Sports (7) Leisure (7)

Pub quiz question 5074 by pjh2

Question: Q: What colour are those famous three lions on the England football badge?
Answer: A: Blue
Categories: Sports (2) Football (1)

Pub quiz question 5073 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which England manager employed a faith healer to take care of his team?
Answer: A: Glenn Hoddle
Notes: *: 1996-1999
Categories: Sports (6) Football (6) 1990s (7)

Pub quiz question 5072 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who did England beat 5-1 after being a goal down in a 2001 World Cup qualifier?
Answer: A: Germany
Categories: Sports (3) Football (3) 2000s (3)

Pub quiz question 5071 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who were the away team when England won the World Cup in 1966?
Answer: A: (West) Germany
Notes: *: It was played at Wembly
Categories: 1960s (2) Football (2) Sports (2)

Pub quiz question 5070 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was the first England player to be sent off in a World Cup?
Answer: A: Ray Wilkins
Notes: *: 1986
Categories: Football (8) Sports (9) 1980s (9)

Pub quiz question 5069 by pjh2

Question: Q: What game was named in the 19th century after army slang for a first year cadet?
Answer: A: Snooker
Categories: Sports (7) Leisure (7) Language (8)

Pub quiz question 5068 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Welshman, nicknamed Dracula, won the World Snooker Championship six times in the 1970s?
Answer: A: Ray Reardon
Categories: Snooker (4) Sports (4) 1970s (4) Leisure (4)

Pub quiz question 5067 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the highest possible snooker break in normal play without the advantage of a foul?
Answer: A: 147
Categories: Sports (3) Leisure (3) Snooker (3)

Pub quiz question 5066 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who did England star Garry Neville score his first international goal against in 2006?
Answer: A: England (own goal)
Categories: Sports (6) Football (6) 2000s (6)

Pub quiz question 5065 by pjh2

Question: Q: What became the venue for the World Snooker Championship in 1977?
Answer: A: Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Categories: 1970s (3) Sports (3) Leisure (3) Snooker (3)

Pub quiz question 5064 by pjh2

Question: Q: What items of sports equipment are made by a fletcher
Answer: A: Arrows
Categories: Sports (2)

Pub quiz question 5063 by pjh2

Question: Q: Whose 1997 World Championship win made him the only person to have won snooker's top honour at junior, amateur and professional levels?
Answer: A: Ken Doherty's
Categories: 1990s (6) Sports (6) Leisure (8) Snooker (5)

Pub quiz question 5062 by pjh2

Question: Q: What shaky-sounding case does an archer keep his arrows in?
Answer: A: Quiver
Categories: Sports (3)

Pub quiz question 5061 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who first sponsored the World Snooker Championship in 1976?
Answer: A: Embassy
Categories: Sports (5) Leisure (5) Advertising (5) Snooker (5) 1970s (5)

Pub quiz question 5060 by pjh2

Question: Q: Whose ear did Mike Tyson bite in a 1997 fight dubbed 'The Sound and the Fury?'
Answer: A: Evander Holyfield's
Categories: Sports (5) Boxing (5)

Pub quiz question 5059 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who won the 1985 World Snooker Championship watched by a record after-midnight audience for any TV channel in Britain?
Answer: A: Dennis Taylor
Categories: Television (2) Entertainment (2) Snooker (2) 1980s (2) Leisure (2)

Pub quiz question 5058 by pjh2

Question: Q: What's the sport if the equipment includes an arm guard and a tab to protect the fingers of the drawing hand?
Answer: A: Archery
Categories: Sports (5)

Pub quiz question 5057 by pjh2

Question: Q: What East Asian state's women won gold, silver and bronze in the Sydney Olympic archery tournament?
Answer: A: South Korea's
Notes: *: 2000
Categories: Sports (7) Olympics (7) 2000s (7)