Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 5390 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: In 1990, who, at the age of 19, became the youngest tennis player to win the US Open?
  2. Answer: A: Pete Sampras
  3. Categories: Sports (5) Tennis (4) 1990s (6)
Pub quiz question 5389 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1984 for her performance in A Passage to India?
  2. Answer: A: Peggy Ashcroft
  3. Categories: 1980s (5) Entertainment (5) Film/Movies (5)
Pub quiz question 5388 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What colour is a flag of truce?
  2. Answer: A: White
  3. Categories: Military (2)
Pub quiz question 5387 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: In which US city was Legionnaires' disease first identified?
  2. Answer: A: Philadelphia
  3. Notes: *: 1976
  4. Categories: Science (5) 1970s (5) Biology (5) Geography (7)
Pub quiz question 5386 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which book of the Old Testament tells of Shadrack, Meshach and Abednego being cast into a fiery furnace?
  2. Answer: A: Daniel
  3. Categories: Literature (5) Religion (4)
Pub quiz question 5385 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which team won promotion to the Premiership by beating Barnsley in the 2000 play-off final?
  2. Answer: A: Ipswich Town
  3. Categories: Sports (6) Football (5) 2000s (7)
Pub quiz question 5384 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which US actor won an Oscar for his rôle in True Grit?
  2. Answer: A: John Wayne
  3. Notes: *: 1969
  4. Categories: Entertainment (5) Film/Movies (5) 1960s (5)
Pub quiz question 5383 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What name is given to a condition in which the temperature of the body is abnormally low?
  2. Answer: A: Hypothermia
  3. Categories: Science (4) Biology (4)
Pub quiz question 5382 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which French national holiday is celebrated on July 14?
  2. Answer: A: Bastille Day
  3. Categories: Geography (5) Military (4)
Pub quiz question 5381 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What is the Latin word for lead, from which the chemical symbol Pb is derived?
  2. Answer: A: Plumbum
  3. Categories: Language (4) Chemistry (2) Science (3)
Pub quiz question 5380 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What is the second largest of the Great Lakes by surface area?
  2. Answer: A: Lake Huron
  3. Notes: *: It's third by volume - Lake Michigan is second by volume
  4. Categories: Geography (7)
Pub quiz question 5379 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: In which Texas city was President John F. Kennedy assassinated in 1963?
  2. Answer: A: Dallas
  3. Categories: Politics (3) Geography (4) 1960s (4)
Pub quiz question 5378 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which mathematician is said to have run naked into the street shouting "Eureka?"
  2. Answer: A: Archimedes
  3. Categories: Science (2) Mathematics (2)
Pub quiz question 5377 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which artist and typographer carved the Stations of the Cross in Westminster Cathedral?
  2. Answer: A: Eric Gill
  3. Categories: Art (7) Religion (7)
Pub quiz question 5376 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: In which European country is composer and conductor Gustav Mahler's birthplace?
  2. Answer: A: Czech Republic
  3. Categories: Geography (7) Music (7)
Pub quiz question 5375 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which actress plays an unlikely drug dealer in the film Saving Grace?
  2. Answer: A: Brenda Blethyn
  3. Notes: *: 2000
  4. Categories: Entertainment (5) Film/Movies (5) 2000s (5)
Pub quiz question 5374 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who won an Oscar for directing My Fair Lady?
  2. Answer: A: George Cukor
  3. Notes: *: 1964
  4. Categories: Entertainment (4) Film/Movies (4) 1960s (4)
Pub quiz question 5373 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which red giant is the fourth brightest star in the Sky?
  2. Answer: A: Arcturus
  3. Categories: Space (7) Astronomy (7)
Pub quiz question 5372 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What have to be interpreted in a Rorschach test?
  2. Answer: A: inkblots
  3. Categories: Science (2)
Pub quiz question 5371 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which controversial film rewrote history to give the Americans credit for capturing an Enigma decoding machine?
  2. Answer: A: U-571
  3. Notes: *: Set in 1942, released in 2000
  4. Categories: Entertainment (5) Film/Movies (5) 1940s (5) 2000s (5) Military (5)
Pub quiz question 5370 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which classic yacht race begins annually on Boxing Day?
  2. Answer: A: Sydney-to-Hobart race
  3. Categories: Sports (6) Christmas (6)
Pub quiz question 5369 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which emergency first aid procedure is known by the abbreviation CPR?
  2. Answer: A: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  3. Categories: Science (4)
Pub quiz question 5368 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: In the 1995 Bond film GoldenEye, which character was played by Samantha Bond?
  2. Answer: A: Miss Moneypenny
  3. Categories: 1990s (5) Entertainment (5) Film/Movies (5)
Pub quiz question 5367 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Brookside character was played by Paul Usher?
  2. Answer: A: Barry Grant
  3. Categories: Soaps (4) Television (4) Entertainment (4)
Pub quiz question 5366 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: In 1995, which band broke Michael Jackson's record for first-week sales of a double album in America?
  2. Answer: A: The Beatles
  3. 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
  4. Categories: Entertainment (5) Music (5) 1990s (5)
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